Croatian-Ukrainian crime drama “The Silence,” whose first season sold wide last year for Munich-based Beta Film, is heading to Kyiv for Season 2, Variety can reveal.
The series is based on the critically acclaimed fact-based books by investigative journalist Drago Hedl that examine human and weapons trafficking throughout Eastern Europe.
The first season spent 25 days shooting in the Ukrainian capital. Season 2 will return for three days and be directed remotely, due to the security risk, but will shoot several scenes featuring key Ukrainian cast, including star Kseniya Mishina, as well as some establishing shots. Production in Kyiv is due to wrap Feb. 25.
Nebojša Taraba of Zagreb-based production company Drugi Plan, which produces the show alongside Croatian broadcaster Hrt in collaboration with Beta Film and Ukraine’s Star Media, said the producers had no choice but to give the script for Season 2 a rewrite in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The series is based on the critically acclaimed fact-based books by investigative journalist Drago Hedl that examine human and weapons trafficking throughout Eastern Europe.
The first season spent 25 days shooting in the Ukrainian capital. Season 2 will return for three days and be directed remotely, due to the security risk, but will shoot several scenes featuring key Ukrainian cast, including star Kseniya Mishina, as well as some establishing shots. Production in Kyiv is due to wrap Feb. 25.
Nebojša Taraba of Zagreb-based production company Drugi Plan, which produces the show alongside Croatian broadcaster Hrt in collaboration with Beta Film and Ukraine’s Star Media, said the producers had no choice but to give the script for Season 2 a rewrite in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- 2/20/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The second season of Belgian crime drama series Fair Trade is set to launch.
Producer Independent Productions has delivered the six-part, second run, which is titled Fair Trade: The Road Back, to distributor Silver Mountain Distribution.
The first season was a hit on Vtm, Vrt and Telenet’s Belgian SVoD service Streamz, with Ireland-based Silver Mountain claiming it beat U.S. series such as Mare of Easttown and The Undoing to top spot in local streaming charts.
Deadline revealed news of the second season back in July 2021.
Prime Video, which had the first season in the Netherlands, has snapped up season two, and is planning to launch it in December. Streamz will debut it in Belgium in February 2023. Amazon’s Freevee service and Brazil’s Globoplay have also picked up season one for Germany and Austria
The show is set three years aftere the first and follows outcast cop...
Producer Independent Productions has delivered the six-part, second run, which is titled Fair Trade: The Road Back, to distributor Silver Mountain Distribution.
The first season was a hit on Vtm, Vrt and Telenet’s Belgian SVoD service Streamz, with Ireland-based Silver Mountain claiming it beat U.S. series such as Mare of Easttown and The Undoing to top spot in local streaming charts.
Deadline revealed news of the second season back in July 2021.
Prime Video, which had the first season in the Netherlands, has snapped up season two, and is planning to launch it in December. Streamz will debut it in Belgium in February 2023. Amazon’s Freevee service and Brazil’s Globoplay have also picked up season one for Germany and Austria
The show is set three years aftere the first and follows outcast cop...
- 11/15/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Carey Fitzgerald’s Silver Mountain Productions has boarded world sales, excluding Benelux, on Fair Trade, the crime series from Marc Punt’s Independent Productions.
This is the second time the two companies have teamed up, following the people trafficking drama series Matrioshki, which sold worldwide.
Fair Trade stars Kevin Janssens (Missing Persons Unit), and Ella-June Herard (Torpedo) as corrupt cops Robin De Rover and Walter Wilson. They are supported by Peter Van den Begin (Matrioshki) and Jeroen Perceval (The Ardennes) as the drug barons and gang leaders and the Ukraine’s Kseniya Mishina (Naked Truth).
The 8×60 series is produced for Vtm/Streamz and has already been commissioned for a second series, which will air in 2022.
This is the second time the two companies have teamed up, following the people trafficking drama series Matrioshki, which sold worldwide.
Fair Trade stars Kevin Janssens (Missing Persons Unit), and Ella-June Herard (Torpedo) as corrupt cops Robin De Rover and Walter Wilson. They are supported by Peter Van den Begin (Matrioshki) and Jeroen Perceval (The Ardennes) as the drug barons and gang leaders and the Ukraine’s Kseniya Mishina (Naked Truth).
The 8×60 series is produced for Vtm/Streamz and has already been commissioned for a second series, which will air in 2022.
- 7/21/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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