Exclusive: U.S. producer Joanne Rubino (Hatfields & McCoys), former President of Production at ThinkFactory Media, is launching Los Angeles-based Be Brave Media, with a slate of projects including a biopic of “Chocolate King” Milton Hershey.
Be Brave will develop, package and produce between three to six projects a year. Budget ranges of the films and TV series will vary.
Hershey will chart how Hershey’s journey began as a teenager in rural Pennsylvania and went on to see him found and run one of the world’s top confectioners and become a leading businessman and philanthropist. The M.S. Hershey Foundation, the Hershey Company and the Hershey Trust Company have granted the producing team access to the Hershey Community Archives, including images, documents and other private material.
Rubino is producing with frequent collaborator and partner Darla Marasco of Marasco Media. Rubino also co-wrote the script with Sam Juergens and David Juergens,...
Be Brave will develop, package and produce between three to six projects a year. Budget ranges of the films and TV series will vary.
Hershey will chart how Hershey’s journey began as a teenager in rural Pennsylvania and went on to see him found and run one of the world’s top confectioners and become a leading businessman and philanthropist. The M.S. Hershey Foundation, the Hershey Company and the Hershey Trust Company have granted the producing team access to the Hershey Community Archives, including images, documents and other private material.
Rubino is producing with frequent collaborator and partner Darla Marasco of Marasco Media. Rubino also co-wrote the script with Sam Juergens and David Juergens,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
History has green-lit nonfiction series The UnXplained (working title), which is hosted and executive produced by William Shatner. It has also slated new docudramas about George Washington and food, and brought back In Search Of and Evel Live for second go-rounds.
The announcements were made during the A+E Networks upfront presentation to media buyers in New York.
The UnXplained comes from executive producer Kevin Burns, creator and producer of History hits like Ancient Aliens and The Curse of Oak Island. The show will explore the facts behind the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries.
Inspired by the iconic 1970s franchise originally hosted by Leonard Nimoy, In Search Of examines unexplained phenomena worldwide. It is hosted and executive produced by Zachary Quinto, and produced by Propagate Content, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Before the Door Pictures.
“Both The UnXplained and In Search Of strive to solve some of...
The announcements were made during the A+E Networks upfront presentation to media buyers in New York.
The UnXplained comes from executive producer Kevin Burns, creator and producer of History hits like Ancient Aliens and The Curse of Oak Island. The show will explore the facts behind the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries.
Inspired by the iconic 1970s franchise originally hosted by Leonard Nimoy, In Search Of examines unexplained phenomena worldwide. It is hosted and executive produced by Zachary Quinto, and produced by Propagate Content, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Before the Door Pictures.
“Both The UnXplained and In Search Of strive to solve some of...
- 3/27/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Walk into a room containing Michael Strahan and Sara Haines and you’re going to get a jolt. This duo radiates energy. Now ABC needs to figure out a way to harness it.
Haines and Strahan will on Monday lead an ambitious bid by the Walt Disney-owned network to expand its flagship morning program, “Good Morning America,” to a new afternoon perch. “GMA Day,” slated to air at 1 p.m. weekdays, is seen as a way to add a third hour to the A.M. flagship, extending its presence on the network.
This new hour hinges on the heartwarming, however, not the headlines. “You probably need to be taken away from some of the more serious things out there, and I think this is really it,” says Strahan, who vows the program will be “very fun. It’s a show that is inspiring at times.”
The two hosts promise...
Haines and Strahan will on Monday lead an ambitious bid by the Walt Disney-owned network to expand its flagship morning program, “Good Morning America,” to a new afternoon perch. “GMA Day,” slated to air at 1 p.m. weekdays, is seen as a way to add a third hour to the A.M. flagship, extending its presence on the network.
This new hour hinges on the heartwarming, however, not the headlines. “You probably need to be taken away from some of the more serious things out there, and I think this is really it,” says Strahan, who vows the program will be “very fun. It’s a show that is inspiring at times.”
The two hosts promise...
- 9/6/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The battle for global chocolate dominance between the likes of Cadbury, Nestle and Hershey is set to melt on to the small screen after Fable Pictures, the British production company run by The Crown and Suffragette producer Faye Ward, optioned Deborah Cadbury’s book Chocolate Wars.
The Sony-backed production company, which was started by Ward in 2016, is looking to turn the book into an international TV drama. It has partnered with The Indian Detective and Transporter writer Smita Bhide and director Tom Harper, who has directed Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s The Aeronauts and Fable’s forthcoming Julie Walters-fronted Wild Rose, on the project. Harper, who also worked on BBC drama War & Peace, will exec produce alongside Ward and Hannah Farrell.
The book, originally published in 2010 by Harper Press, tells the story of the invention of the chocolate bar and the battle between three British families – Cadbury,...
The Sony-backed production company, which was started by Ward in 2016, is looking to turn the book into an international TV drama. It has partnered with The Indian Detective and Transporter writer Smita Bhide and director Tom Harper, who has directed Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s The Aeronauts and Fable’s forthcoming Julie Walters-fronted Wild Rose, on the project. Harper, who also worked on BBC drama War & Peace, will exec produce alongside Ward and Hannah Farrell.
The book, originally published in 2010 by Harper Press, tells the story of the invention of the chocolate bar and the battle between three British families – Cadbury,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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