HBO Asia has unveiled details of its light-hearted Chinese-language drama series “Workers.” The show is the latest in a growing roster of local productions in Asia, by pay-tv groups and digital platforms.
Based on a novel of the same title, the show follows a group of construction workers who daydream about being wealthy. They resort to countless outrageous get-rich-quick schemes only to make fools out of themselves. The cast is headed by Christopher Lee (“A Good Wife”) and Alex Ko (“Back to the Good Times”).
HBO will upload it to HBO Go from May 10, with the first two episodes immediately available. The remaining four parts will follow as weekly instalments.
The show is an HBO Asia Original series produced in association with Kbro Media and Him International Music. Production is by DaMou Entertainment, the studio behind another HBO Asia series “The World Between Us.”
“Workers” is directed by Cheng Fen-Fen (“Go Brother!
Based on a novel of the same title, the show follows a group of construction workers who daydream about being wealthy. They resort to countless outrageous get-rich-quick schemes only to make fools out of themselves. The cast is headed by Christopher Lee (“A Good Wife”) and Alex Ko (“Back to the Good Times”).
HBO will upload it to HBO Go from May 10, with the first two episodes immediately available. The remaining four parts will follow as weekly instalments.
The show is an HBO Asia Original series produced in association with Kbro Media and Him International Music. Production is by DaMou Entertainment, the studio behind another HBO Asia series “The World Between Us.”
“Workers” is directed by Cheng Fen-Fen (“Go Brother!
- 4/14/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Leading out of a Madam Secretary rerun, the series finale of CBS’ Battle Creek on Sunday night drew 4.6 million total viewers and a 0.6 rating, down 11 percent in audience while steady in the demo.
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Leading the sleepy holiday weekend Sunday was Fox’s coverage of the Nascar’s Coca-Cola 600, which did 6.1 mil and a 1.4 (from 7 to 10 pm Et).
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Over on NBC, A.D. (4.3 mil/0.7) dipped 10 percent and a tenth, hitting series lows, while American Odyssey (2.6 mil/0.4) held steady.
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Leading the sleepy holiday weekend Sunday was Fox’s coverage of the Nascar’s Coca-Cola 600, which did 6.1 mil and a 1.4 (from 7 to 10 pm Et).
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Over on NBC, A.D. (4.3 mil/0.7) dipped 10 percent and a tenth, hitting series lows, while American Odyssey (2.6 mil/0.4) held steady.
- 5/25/2015
- TVLine.com
The primetime bloodletting continued late Friday, as CBS dropped the axe on Vince Gilligan’s Battle Creek, Kevin Williamson’s Stalker and the family sitcom The McCarthys.
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The freshman trio were done in by low ratings.
The CBS cancellations capped a lethal day at the broadcast networks, as more than a dozen shows were dispatched to the Mia network. Among the CBS bubble shows still hovering between life and death: CSI, CSI: Cyber and Hawaii Five-0.
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- 5/8/2015
- TVLine.com
Denmark’s Katja Adomeit and Germany’s Ingmar Trost among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
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European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
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- 4/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 2015 Writers Guild Awards in television turned out to be Good and True.
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HBO’s True Detective picked up two WGA trophies (for Best Drama Series and Best New Series), while The Good Wife landed a trophy for “Best Episodic Drama” — honoring an individual episode — for “The Last Call,” the hour written by EPs Robert and Michelle King that followed the shocking death of Josh Charles’ Will Gardner.
On the comedy side, FX’s Louie won Best Comedy Series and Best Episodic Comedy (for the widely lauded “So Did...
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HBO’s True Detective picked up two WGA trophies (for Best Drama Series and Best New Series), while The Good Wife landed a trophy for “Best Episodic Drama” — honoring an individual episode — for “The Last Call,” the hour written by EPs Robert and Michelle King that followed the shocking death of Josh Charles’ Will Gardner.
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- 2/15/2015
- TVLine.com
Well hello, Governor.
Walking Dead alum David Morrissey will join the cast of CBS’ Extant when it returns this summer, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Morrissey, who played the sadistic, eyepatch-sporting Governor on the gory AMC drama, will recur as Extant‘s General Tobias Shepherd.
Shepherd leads the Global Security Commission, is rather personable and has a history with Halle Berry’s Molly — a connection that makes his job tougher in light of a new, deadly threat.
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Walking Dead alum David Morrissey will join the cast of CBS’ Extant when it returns this summer, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Morrissey, who played the sadistic, eyepatch-sporting Governor on the gory AMC drama, will recur as Extant‘s General Tobias Shepherd.
Shepherd leads the Global Security Commission, is rather personable and has a history with Halle Berry’s Molly — a connection that makes his job tougher in light of a new, deadly threat.
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- 2/9/2015
- TVLine.com
CBS’ broadcast of the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night drew 25.3 million total viewers and an 8.5 demo rating (per finals c/o Tvbtn), down 11 and 14 percent from last year’s telecast
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Elsewhere, Fox’s The Simpsons (2.9 mil/1.2), Family Guy (2.8 mil/1.4) and Bob’s Burgers (1.9 mil/1.0) each shed some eyeballs and two tenths in the demo, while Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2.6 mil/1.2) was steady and the penultimate Mulaney (1.2 mil/0.5) rose 22 percent and a tenth.
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Elsewhere, Fox’s The Simpsons (2.9 mil/1.2), Family Guy (2.8 mil/1.4) and Bob’s Burgers (1.9 mil/1.0) each shed some eyeballs and two tenths in the demo, while Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2.6 mil/1.2) was steady and the penultimate Mulaney (1.2 mil/0.5) rose 22 percent and a tenth.
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- 2/9/2015
- TVLine.com
Colin Hanks is trading in his police badge for a diaper bag.
The Fargo actor has been cast as a lead in CBS’ comedy pilot Life in Pieces, our sister site Deadline reports.
The single-camera project tells the story of one family through the separate perspectives of its different family members. Hanks will star as Greg, the youngest of three siblings who is wholly unprepared for the birth of his first child.
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The Fargo actor has been cast as a lead in CBS’ comedy pilot Life in Pieces, our sister site Deadline reports.
The single-camera project tells the story of one family through the separate perspectives of its different family members. Hanks will star as Greg, the youngest of three siblings who is wholly unprepared for the birth of his first child.
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Justin Adler (Better Off Ted) will pen the pilot and Aaron Kaplan (The Mysteries of Laura) will executive-produce.
- 2/7/2015
- TVLine.com
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