NEWS
Beta Film celebrates a primetime-winning week on Germany's ARD
With three primetime wins, Beta Film has finished a most successful week on Germany's public broadcaster ARD...
Deadline: Beta Film Pre-Sells Period TV Drama ‘Sisi’ To France & Austria, First Look At Production
EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film has closed pre-sales with two leading European broadcasters, France's TF1 and Austria's ORF, on RTL Group's series about iconic Austrian Empress Sisi...
“Hudson & Rex” new Season jumps through the roof in North America and the UK
Season three of the success procedural Hudson & Rex exceeds all expectations in its home turf on CityTV (Rogers Media) in Canada, as well as on UKTV's Alibi with rating increased over 50%...
Cineuropa: In the upcoming series Helsinki Syndrome, it's time to love your captor
The new Finnish series, with Peter Franzén in the lead, will start shooting in Helsinki in June. In the upcoming series Helsinki Syndrome, it's time to love your captor...
DQ: Running Wild
Wild Republic star Emma Drogunova and director Markus Goller share stories of acting boot camps and filming in the Alps for the German drama, in which a group of young offenders escape into the wilderness in the wake of a mysterious death...
C21: Beta Film hires for Turkish expansion
Munich-based producer and distributor Beta Film has hired Sarp Kalfaoğlu as its representative in Istanbul as it looks to expand its work across Turkey and South-East Europe...
Playback: Hudson & Rex to Unleash Fourth Season
Announced by the canine-cop procedural's cast during its season three finale yesterday (April 20), the Canadian adaptation of Austrian format Inspector Rex has been renewed for 16 new episodes...
Variety: Kyle MacLachlan Series ‘Atlantic Crossing’ Lands at Spain’s Movistar Plus and Austria’s ORF (EXCLUSIVE)
Beta Film has sold the World War II drama series "Atlantic Crossing," starring Kyle MacLachlan and "The Bridge" lead actor Sofia Helin, to Spain's pay TV provider Movistar Plus and Austrian public broadcaster ORF...
Variety: Beta Film Boards Nordic Thriller ‘Helsinki Syndrome’ Starring ‘Vikings’ Peter Franzén (EXCLUSIVE)
Jan Mojto's Munich-based production-distribution company Beta Film has boarded Nordic suspense thriller "Helsinki Syndrome," the first common project with Finland's Fisher King since Beta took a majority stake in the leading Finnish production company in 2019...
Variety: Beta Film Adds 'Supernormal,' 'You Shall Not Lie,' Taking 'Spanish Power Women' to the World (EXCLUSIVE)
Germany's Beta Film has picked up world sales on two tales of Spanish power women: Movistar Plus' originals "Supernormal" and "You Shall Not Lie," the latter created and directed by "The Red Band Society" helmer Pau Freixas...
Variety: 'Das Boot' Director Andreas Prochaska & Producer Moritz von der Groeben on MipDrama Title 'The Winemaker' (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix ushered in a new TV dawn in distribution. In reaction, Europe's public broadcasters are driving a less vaunted but still significant revolution in production. Few are pushing the envelope more than Germany's ZDF...
Architectural Digest: Inside the Old and New Worlds of Atlantic Crossing
The latest Masterpiece PBS show is a fictionalized account of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway's friendship with FDR...
“Atlantic Crossing” beats NBC and FOX on PBS MASTERPIECE
Beta Film's drama series Atlantic Crossing has premiered successfully on the prestigious American national broadcaster PBS MASTERPIECE, even beating commercial competitors NBC and FOX...
Variety: ‘Gigantes’ Director Enrique Urbizu Talks Movistar Plus’ New Banner Series ‘Libertad’
As the COVID-19 crisis still roils around the world, Movistar Plus' new banner series, Enrique Urbizu's "Libertad," opened day and date on March 26 in both Spanish theaters as 135-minute movie and on Movistar Plus' pay/SVOD platform as a five-part series...
TBI Vision: Show of the Week: 'Professor T'
Original Death In Paradise leading man Ben Miller returns to the detective genre with this new drama that tackles as many mental health issues as it does violent crimes...
The Euro TV Place: Agent Hamilton: Swedish Action Spy Thriller Set for US Premiere
Swedish superspy Carl Hamilton is sent on new and dangerous missions in Agent Hamilton, the latest action-packed program featuring the character...
Drama Quarterly: Leading 'Libertad'
Director Enrique Urbizu and star Bebe travel back in time for Spanish series Libertad, which follows a recently released prisoner and her son as they seek their freedom amid a battle between gunmen and bandits...
THR: RTL, Beta to Re-Boot Royal Classic 'Sisi' (Exclusive)
Swiss-German actress Dominique Devenport will play the teenage Empresses Elizabeth of Austria, in a role made famous by Romy Schneider in a series of films from the 1950s. Before Bridgerton, before The Crown, there was Sisi...
TBI Vision: Show of the Week: 'Libertad'
Issues of liberty and freedom lie at the heart of this period drama, set in early 19th-century Spain, and following the story of Lucia "La Llanera", who is released from prison after 17 years, along with Juan, the son she bore behind bars...
The Euro TV Place: Euro TV to Watch: Spanish Historical Spy Drama ‘Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War’
The weekend is here, the perfect time to watch the enthralling Spanish historical spy drama Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War (Tell Me Who I Am)...