Thursday, March 24, 2011

TITANIC MINI-SERIES

 

TITANIC

Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes has scripted a new multi-territory co-production drama about the last hours aboard the Titanic.

Billed as a lavish new four-hour TV miniseries Titanic, for ABC, Global TV and ITV, it will start filming on location in Hungary this spring.

Focusing on the lives of different characters ranging from steerage passengers to upper class guests as the ship begins to founder, the drama takes viewers on a journey through the last hours of Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912. Casting has yet to be announced.

The three-way U.K.-Hungary-Canada co-production is between ITV Studios, Deep Indigo Productions and Lookout Point in the U.K., Sienna Films Inc. in Canada and Hungary-based Mid Atlantic Films.

It will sail on ABC and Canada's Global TV followed closely by premieres in five other territories including the U.K. Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.

Quinn Taylor, SVP movies miniseries and acquisitions for ABC Network said that the doomed voyage had "retained a powerful hold on people around the world for almost 100 years, and this new miniseries will offer a compelling take on this epic, tragic story. We look forward to bringing this remarkable series to our viewers.”

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