SkyShowtime Unveils Solid & Trailer For ‘Codename: Annika’ – Deadline

‘Codename: Annika’: SkyShowtime Unveils Solid & Trailer

SkyShowtime has unveiled forged and trailer for Codename: Annika, one of many fledgling Paramount/Comcast JV’s greatest originals so far. The collection follows a Finnish detective, Emma Haka, performed by Sannah Nedergård (Yellow Sulphur Sky), who remains to be finishing her undercover coaching when she will get despatched on a mission into Stockholm’s corrupt world of wonderful artwork commerce. Unveiled on the Stockholm Worldwide Movie Pageant, Codename from Mia Ylönen and Aleksi Bardy will star the likes of Ardalan Esmaili (Simple Cash) as Rasmus Ståhlgren, Eva Melander (Border) as Rina Olander and Helena Bergström (Home of Angels) as Agatha Torstensson, together with Pekka Strang (Tom of Finland) as Raimo Korpi, Clarisse Lhoni-Botte (Rolling to You) as Béatrice Joly and Charles Martins (Emily in Paris) as Denver Carpentier. Present will launch subsequent month on the streaming service that’s obtainable in territories by which Comcast’s Peacock and Paramount+ haven’t rolled out. “This will probably be our first Swedish-Finnish authentic collection and is a implausible twist on the Nordic Noir style,” mentioned SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan. The streamer unveiled a hefty originals slate at Cannes that included Spain’s Las Invisibles and Poland’s Warszawianka. Chatting with Deadline in June, Sarhan mentioned the platform is “sending a message that our content material doesn’t need to break the bank to observe.”

ITV Studios Appoints First Entry Coordinator

ITV Studios has appointed its first in-house Entry Coordinator. Bethany Matthews will work alongside manufacturing groups throughout seven drama labels to make sure all manufacturing groups, crew and forged full accessibility coaching whereas reviewing the accessibility of manufacturing websites and dealing with post-production to make sure accessible enhancing services. She is among the first 12 Entry Coordinators to be skilled within the UK by coaching physique ScreenSkills and consultancy Bridge06. The information comes as ITV Studios turns into an affiliate member of the UK’s TV Entry Mission (TAP), which goals to enhance accessibility for disabled folks within the TV business and is backed by the likes of Assist scribe Jack Thorne. Deadline broke the information of TAP’s launch final yr within the run as much as the Edinburgh TV Pageant and the challenge counts main broadcasters and networks as fellow signees. “That is concerning the larger image for me,” mentioned Matthews, who stories to Director of Manufacturing, Drama, Julie Clark. “When accessibility is on the forefront of manufacturing, whether or not it’s by making the casting course of or post-production extra accessible to expertise, we’ll actually begin to see expertise that the business has been lacking.”