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  • TNT, BBC team up for drama series ‘The Grid’

    TNT, BBC team up for drama series ‘The Grid’

    MUMBAI: Turner Network Television (TNT) and the BBC have joined forces for a drama series The Grid. Starring Dylan McDermott The Practice and Julianna Margulies ER the show will explore both sides of the escalating war on terror.
     
     
    The Grid will be produced in conjunction with Fox Television Studios and Carnival Films. Production on the six-hour series will begin early next year in Toronto, London and Morocco. Margulies will play maverick NSA counter-terrorism operative Maya Jackson, and McDermott will play FBI agent Mike Canary, two of three young American and two British counter-terrorism agents. They collaborate to disrupt a ferocious terrorist cell bent on destroying the world’s economic foundations.

    BBC’s head of drama commissioning Gareth Neame had the following remarks to make about the project. “The Grid is an international project that looks in detail at a terrorist cell operating on a global level and a team of American and British counter-terrorists who are tasked to stop it. It is an ambitious project that explores what motivates and finances the terrorists and examines how international agencies must cooperate to defeat them. The drama looks at the defining threat of our time but does so on a bigger scale than is possible with shows like Spooks and 24.”

    Fox TV Studios’ executive VP movies and miniseries David Madden added, “We’re very excited to be in business for the first time with TNT and BBC. We believe this film project is extremely significant in its effort to honestly depict all sides of the current global tensions within the context of an urgent international thriller.”

  • BBC, Fox to co-produce terrorism drama

    BBC, Fox to co-produce terrorism drama

    LONDON: The BBC and Fox Television Studios in the US are joining forces to make a drama about a fictional terrorist attack on London.

    The three part series The Grid will be told from the point of view of the US and UK anti-terrorist agencies and the terrorists themselves. The show is said to be loosely based on the BBC drama series Spooks.

    The show is being produced by Fox and British company Carnival films, and will be shown on the BBC and TNT in the US. Carnival produced the highly-acclaimed 1989 drug-trafficking mini-series Traffik, which became the inspiration for Steven Soderburgh’s Oscar-winning 2001 film.

    One of the show’s executive producers, Gareth Neame said, “There are quite a lot of similarities to Traffik. The Grid is an international project that looks in detail at a terrorist cell operating on a global level and how it carries out major terrorist acts and atrocities.”

    A BBC spokeswoman said that the series would look at international terrorism in a way that Spooks – which deals with one story each episode – would not able to do. “Spooks is obviously UK based and this is looking at things on a much more global scale,” she said. She also said the series would be based on a fictional terrorist group.

    One UK scriptwriter will join a team of US scriptwriters who are working on the show. The series will not be on screen until late next year at the earliest. The show’s total budget is expected to be about ?10m, and it will be based in the US, the UK and Africa.