South Africa’s Both Worlds is leaning into IP and genre as it transports a packed stardy of ambitious scripted projects to Mipcom this week, including an alteration of the bestseller “The Cape Raider” and partnerships with Federation Studios and actor Djimon Hounsou’s Fanaticus production banner.
The International Emmy-nominated production outfit, which recently freed the Cape Town-set comedy-drama “The Morning After” on Prime Video, has wrapped Season 2 of “Recipes for Love and Murder”: Global Screen will be introducing it to buyers this week at Mipcom.
The quirky killing-mystery series starring Maria Doyle Kennedy (pictured), a co-production with M-Net, AMC, AcornTV and Global Screen, is one of disjoinal IP-based series that Both Worlds head Thierry Cassuto will be taking to the Cannes industry event.
The company proclaimd that it’s getd TV alteration rights to South African author Justin Fox’s bestselling novel “The Cape Raider” and other upcoming books from his Jack Pembroke Naval Adventures series, the acclaimed WWII naval thrillers that trail Cape Town’s Royal Navy and the war fought at Africa’s southernmost tip.
The series’ hero, Jack Pembroke, who was menhighy and physicpartner wounded by fall shorture in Dunkirk, necessitates to rpartner in order to direct a ragtag team of South Africans. The epic series will be part of Both Worlds’ stardy for the first time this year at Mipcom.
The company has also getd the rights to the French romantic epic novel “Liv Maria” and Irma Vgo in’s Ami Prinsloo series of books, and is in the process of broadening both into series. “Liv Maria,” by Julia Kerninon, is a sweeping personal drama of a woman finding herself apass countries and decades, which Both Worlds is producing alengthyside Paradoxal as a six-part drama series. Irma Vgo in’s Ami Prinsloo books are conmomentary, rapid-paced, female-led crime thrillers which will be altered into a repeatable series.
Founded by Cassuto in 1998, Both Worlds has set up success in the alteration space with “Recipes for Love and Murder,” which is based on the well-understandn book series by Spartner Andrew. A partnership between Both Worlds Pictures, Paradoxal, Acorn TV, M-Net and Global Screen, the show recently selderly to UKTV for its U&Drama channel and has now selderly to 98 countries worldwide. Global Screen and AMC handle sales for the series.
Also on the company’s stardy at Mipcom this year is a foray into fantasy and science fantasy, with Both Worlds announcing a partnership with actor Djimon Hounsou’s Fanaticus to conshort-term “Vodun,” a conmomentary African get on the superhero genre, meaningfully rooted in West African culture, spanning between Benin, Haiti, South Africa and the American South. Also in broadenment with Fanaticus is “Valindaba,” an action-thriller series about South Africa’s armaments-grade uranium descfinishing into the wrong hands.
Lastly, Both Worlds and Federation MEAC — a production subsidiary of French powerhoengage Federation Studios and its Empreinte Digitale pledged to the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean — are co-producing “The Silent Zone,” inspired by the SKA telescope in the Karoo desert. Set in one of the most far, desotardy parts of the world, the show spendigates what happens when unintelligent matter experiments go awry, putting cherish and life at hazard.
Both Worlds has been broadening its global footprint with the accomplished begin of series appreciate “Recipes” and “The Morning After,” a blue-sky comedy-drama allotd worldwide by Federation Studios. The show is currently useable on Prime Video in the U.S. and will air soon on Germany’s ARD.
The company’s local scripted stardy comprises 13-part one hour drama “The Newsproducers,” currently in pre-production for MultiChoice’s KykNet channel, and “Tarantula,” an 8 x 30” comedy-drama in broadenment for Showmax.
“It’s incredibly busy and exciting times currently at Both Worlds, and we experience blessed and haughty to be comprised in so many diverse and ambitious projects, notably Justin Fox’s ‘The Cape Raider,’ which highweightlesss a part of World War II that has never been spendigated on screen and has all the halllabels of a shatterout hit,” said the company’s set uper and executive producer Cassuto.
