Kit Williamson is turning Jason Henderson’s Alex Van Helsing novel trilogy into a TV series.
AGC Television is developing a series based on the books for its kids and family slate, with Kit Williamson (Eastsiders) adapting the novels for TV. AGC’s Lourdes Diaz, Aghi Koh and Stuart Ford will executive produce.
The show will center around 14-year-old Alex, who has no idea that he’s descended from the world’s most famous vampire hunter. That changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and two of his friends are kidnapped by vampires.
Williamson is the creator, director and star of Netflix’s LGBTQ series Eastsiders, which was nominated for six Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series, Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He recently wrote Netflix’s musical comedy feature Varsity Drag, with Kenny Ortega attached to direct, and a feature adaptation of the novel Camp for Max,...
AGC Television is developing a series based on the books for its kids and family slate, with Kit Williamson (Eastsiders) adapting the novels for TV. AGC’s Lourdes Diaz, Aghi Koh and Stuart Ford will executive produce.
The show will center around 14-year-old Alex, who has no idea that he’s descended from the world’s most famous vampire hunter. That changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and two of his friends are kidnapped by vampires.
Williamson is the creator, director and star of Netflix’s LGBTQ series Eastsiders, which was nominated for six Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series, Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He recently wrote Netflix’s musical comedy feature Varsity Drag, with Kenny Ortega attached to direct, and a feature adaptation of the novel Camp for Max,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content is aggressively bolstering its unscripted television slate with a slew of new projects including music, sports, cooking, dating and documentary series.
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Greengrass was giving a talk with journalist Danny Leigh at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Filmmaker Paul Greengrass has spoken out about the need to widen access to jobs in the creative industries, describing the sector as ”more meritocratic” when he started his career in the 1970s.
In a discussion event with journalist and curator Danny Leigh at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Friday June 7, the Jason Bourne and Captain Phillips director said, ”When I started… it was more meritocratic because the unions were strong, and you didn’t get hired without a proper contract.”
“It’s still far, far too reliant on networking,...
Filmmaker Paul Greengrass has spoken out about the need to widen access to jobs in the creative industries, describing the sector as ”more meritocratic” when he started his career in the 1970s.
In a discussion event with journalist and curator Danny Leigh at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Friday June 7, the Jason Bourne and Captain Phillips director said, ”When I started… it was more meritocratic because the unions were strong, and you didn’t get hired without a proper contract.”
“It’s still far, far too reliant on networking,...
- 6/11/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Abusers should be ‘full-on disgraced’ and self-regulation is failing victims, panellists argue.
Self-regulation of behaviour in TV industry is failing to punish harassers and destroying women’s careers, according to speakers at a Sheffield Doc/Fest panel.
Former Vice presenter Billie Jd Porter, who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the company earlier this year, said that more men in the industry “should be full-on disgraced” by abuse and bullying allegations following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
Porter highlighted that men did not feel a fraction of the damage experienced by women who speak out about them, and...
Self-regulation of behaviour in TV industry is failing to punish harassers and destroying women’s careers, according to speakers at a Sheffield Doc/Fest panel.
Former Vice presenter Billie Jd Porter, who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the company earlier this year, said that more men in the industry “should be full-on disgraced” by abuse and bullying allegations following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
Porter highlighted that men did not feel a fraction of the damage experienced by women who speak out about them, and...
- 6/12/2018
- by Manori Ravindran Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Working with Weinstein producer Natasha Dack has urged broadcasters to budget for harassment protection in the same way as environmental concerns, while presenter and filmmaker Billie Jd Porter said that more men in the UK television business need to be held to account over their actions in a wide-ranging #TimesUp panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The pair were joined on the panel – Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment – by Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC News Mobile & Online, exec producer Jane Merlin and BAFTA’s Director of Learning & New Talent Tim Hunter.
Dack, who runs Tigerlily Productions, the company behind the recent Channel 4 Dispatches doc on Weinstein, said that broadcasters “really need to take a proper look at themselves” after revealing a story about a producer who had made a claim against an on-screen talent, described as a “national treasure”, but was rebuffed after the broadcaster took his side.
The pair were joined on the panel – Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment – by Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC News Mobile & Online, exec producer Jane Merlin and BAFTA’s Director of Learning & New Talent Tim Hunter.
Dack, who runs Tigerlily Productions, the company behind the recent Channel 4 Dispatches doc on Weinstein, said that broadcasters “really need to take a proper look at themselves” after revealing a story about a producer who had made a claim against an on-screen talent, described as a “national treasure”, but was rebuffed after the broadcaster took his side.
- 6/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Billie Jd Porter, the British presenter who made a number of sexual assault accusations against bosses at Vice Media in January, has called the company's response to her claims "cold, unresponsive and inconsistent" and questioned the timing of Shane Smith's move from CEO to executive chairman. Porter, who has worked on and off with the company for around 10 years presenting documentaries such as Rose Boy, detailed her dealings with the company's Hr team in a 3,000-word blo…...
- 3/16/2018
- Deadline TV
Vice Media investigated new accusations of sexual misconduct from former British TV Host Billie Jd Porter. “Ms. Porter has raised some of the allegations in her Instagram post with us and we have worked quickly and decisively to investigate them and take appropriate actions where necessary,” a Vice spokesperson told TheWrap. “We have encouraged her to give further details surrounding any allegations, so we can investigate those as well.” In a Sunday Instagram post, Porter said that her supervisor at Vice gave her alcohol and drugs when she was still a minor and asked to perform sexual acts on him. Porter, who...
- 1/22/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Vice is facing further allegations of workplace misconduct and harassment after British producer and presenter Billie Jd Porter made a number of claims against the youth media company. Porter, who has worked on and off with the company for around ten years, made a number of allegations against Vice, dating back a decade, in a post shared on Instagram and Twitter. She was responding to Vice's coverage of the Women's March in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend…...
- 1/22/2018
- Deadline TV
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