ZDF Studios Boosts Fact Entertainment, Oble Nabs ‘The Plague’ – Variety

Manuel Fernandez-Valdes

ZDF Boot Facts Entertainment

ZDF studio Push factual entertainment with the launch of a new company, Content Laden.

Co-founded by Managing Director Tom Gamlich and Creative Director Jan Fritzowsky, the Munich-based subsidiary will focus on the development and production of innovative and high-quality formats. Gamlich and Fritzowsky most recently served on the long-term management team of South&Browse, where they were responsible for the development and production of the successful factual entertainment format for broadcasters and streaming companies.

According to Markus Schäfer, President and CEO of ZDF Studios, Content Laden is based on “an investment in creativity and innovation. We want to create great forms and from this we can achieve long-term, sustainable growth.”

repeatedly Selling Camus’ adaptation of The Plague‘

France’s Oble has acquired the international rights to the TV series “The Plague,” a modern adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel of the same name. While the book is set in the 1940s, the miniseries is set in 2029, when society is still recovering from the waves of the COVID epidemic and is now facing an even deadlier plague. The four-part series, adapted and written by Gilles Taurand and Georges-Marc Benamou, is produced by Siècle Productions for France 2. Directed by Antoine Garceau (“Call My Broker,” “Greek Salad”), “The Plague” begins shooting April 17 in the south of France. Starring Frédéric Pierrot (“In Healing”), Hugo Becker (“The Black Baron”) and Sofia Essaïdi (“Women at War”).

Italy accepts ‘oath’

Mediaset acquires Spanish hit Japanese drama The Oath.for sale studio canal, the show will air on Canale 5 later this year. The series was produced by Bambú Producciones, a subsidiary of Studiocanal, for Spain’s TVE, which has just been renewed for a second season. “The Vow” by Josep Cister Rubio (“Dos Vidas”), currently airing on TVE’s La1, has had a successful showing in Spain’s highly competitive daily slot.

Planete+ orders World War I documentaries

Planete+, the documentary channel of the French Canal+ Group, commissioned Pernel Media to produce the First World War documentary series “1914, Summer of Hell”. The immersive production tells the first summer of World War I from the perspective of the soldiers who were sent into battle and the civilians who worked on the front lines. Divided into four one-hour episodes, “1914, Summer of Hell” uses color archival and dramatic entertainment to take viewers into the heart of the action at the outbreak of war in Europe, when millions of European youth were sent to battle Their peaceful lives are broken by conflicts that most of them do not understand. Fabrice Frank Executive Producer at Pernel Media, based in France and the UK.

Australia welcomes “Honeymoon Island”‘

Red Arrow Studios International has sold “Stranded on Honeymoon Island” to Australia’s Seven Network after launching its new hit format at a London screening. Endemol Shine Australia is producing a new adventure dating show in which expertly matched couples are stranded on a deserted island and left to fend for themselves over three weeks. Copenhagen-based Snowman Productions – part of Seven.One Studios and sister company to Red Arrow Studios – initially produces shows for VTM in Belgium and plans to establish and manage a production center in South East Asia to facilitate year-round shooting of new local versions of the format .