French broadcaster Planete Plus has commissioned factual political thriller “Munich: Of Games and Blood” from Pernel Media to mark the 50 anniversary of the hostage crisis that rocked the Munich Olympic Games on September 5, 1972.
Executive producers for Pernel Media are Fabrice Frank and Samuel Kissous. Feature doc was commissioned by Planete Plus’s Christine Cauquelin, head of documentaries, Canal Plus Group.Los Angeles-based Electric Entertainment has signed a multi-territory deal with NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct-To-Consumer for its SYFY U.S. original television series “The Ark.” These territories include SYFY in France, Spain and Portugal and SCIFI in the Balkans and Poland.
Norwegian pubcaster NRK has commissioned London-based Buccaneer Media and Oslo-headquartered Redpoint Productions to produce dramatic series “So Long, Marianne,” based on the lives of iconic folksinger Leonard Cohen and his muse, Marianne Ihlen. NRK retains the rights to distribute the English/Norwegian-language series for Norway as well as in Scandinavia. Series takes place in Ihlen’s home in Oslo as well as London, New York and Montreal, with most of it set on the Greek island of Hydra, where they lived during the 1960s.