'New Tricks' will end for good this summer. The popular BBC One comedy drama has been on the air since 2003, but TV bosses have confirmed that it will finish at end of the current series. In a joint statement, BBC One controller Charlotte Moore and Ben Stephenson, the BBC's controller of drama commissioning, said: ''We are incredibly proud of 'New Tricks' and would like to thank Roy Mitchell the brilliant creator, [production companies] Wall to Wall and Headstrong, and all the cast and teams involved across the 12 series. ''However, on BBC One it's important to make room for new series and...
- 2/24/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
New Tricks is to end after its upcoming 12th series.
The BBC is bringing the long-running crime drama to an end "to make room for new series", Broadcast reports.
In a joint statement, BBC One controller Charlotte Moore and BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson said: "We are incredibly proud of New Tricks and would like to thank Roy Mitchell the brilliant creator, Wall to Wall and Headstrong, and all the cast and teams involved across the 12 series.
"However, on BBC One, it's important to make room for new series and continue to increase the range of drama on the channel, so it won't be returning after the next series airs this summer."
Headstrong Pictures - who are producing the final series - added: "For eleven series, New Tricks has been one of the most enduringly popular dramas on television, and Wall to Wall and Headstrong Pictures are hugely proud of the success of the show.
The BBC is bringing the long-running crime drama to an end "to make room for new series", Broadcast reports.
In a joint statement, BBC One controller Charlotte Moore and BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson said: "We are incredibly proud of New Tricks and would like to thank Roy Mitchell the brilliant creator, Wall to Wall and Headstrong, and all the cast and teams involved across the 12 series.
"However, on BBC One, it's important to make room for new series and continue to increase the range of drama on the channel, so it won't be returning after the next series airs this summer."
Headstrong Pictures - who are producing the final series - added: "For eleven series, New Tricks has been one of the most enduringly popular dramas on television, and Wall to Wall and Headstrong Pictures are hugely proud of the success of the show.
- 2/23/2015
- Digital Spy
Rosengje, a regular commenter here @ the Film Experience, sent me some thoughts from ShoWest, the motion picture industry convention which ends today, to share with y'all. I'm all about sharing. I haven't been to Vegas in years -- never really enjoyed it -- but I admit jealousy since so many blogposts and tweets were flying at me directly from Sin City.
Here's Rosengje.... The primary topic of conversation at ShoWest has been the digital and 3D revolution. Jeffrey Katzenberg's commitment to converting as many theaters as possible to 3D prior to the release of Monsters vs. Aliens was highlighted in Jim Gianopulos's opening remarks. (Incidentally, can anyone think of Gianopulos without reminiscing about Mickey Rourke's ill-fated attempt to thank the Fox honcho during the Spirit Awards?) The K in Dreamworks Skg made a special appearance and participated in a panel on "How to Stay Ahead of the...
Here's Rosengje.... The primary topic of conversation at ShoWest has been the digital and 3D revolution. Jeffrey Katzenberg's commitment to converting as many theaters as possible to 3D prior to the release of Monsters vs. Aliens was highlighted in Jim Gianopulos's opening remarks. (Incidentally, can anyone think of Gianopulos without reminiscing about Mickey Rourke's ill-fated attempt to thank the Fox honcho during the Spirit Awards?) The K in Dreamworks Skg made a special appearance and participated in a panel on "How to Stay Ahead of the...
- 4/2/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The industry's conundrum: Boxoffice is booming, but the credit crunch is keeping exhibitors from rolling out new theater systems as quickly as they'd like.
"It seems like we have one foot in the present and one in the future due to the financial markets," said Lee Roy Mitchell, chairman of the large Cinemark theater chain and a decades-long fixture on ShoWest panels like the one that kicked off the annual confab Monday.
The weekend's monster opening for DreamWorks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" was ample validation that the industry's costly rollout of digital and 3-D projection systems will pay off quickly, Mitchell said. But he noted that financing for such equipment rollouts remains stuck in low gear.
Still, much of the well-attended panel, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider, swung on a much more quality problem: how to manage the boxoffice boom in a manner befitting the economic climate.
"It seems like we have one foot in the present and one in the future due to the financial markets," said Lee Roy Mitchell, chairman of the large Cinemark theater chain and a decades-long fixture on ShoWest panels like the one that kicked off the annual confab Monday.
The weekend's monster opening for DreamWorks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" was ample validation that the industry's costly rollout of digital and 3-D projection systems will pay off quickly, Mitchell said. But he noted that financing for such equipment rollouts remains stuck in low gear.
Still, much of the well-attended panel, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider, swung on a much more quality problem: how to manage the boxoffice boom in a manner befitting the economic climate.
- 3/30/2009
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Orlando -- The trade show floor at exhibition confabs like ShowEast 2008 tends to be dominated as much by tech displays as popcorn-and-candy vendors these days.
Gloomily, floor traffic appears down at both this year. Vendors blame economy-slackened show attendance and competition from off-site movie screenings.
At one point on Wednesday -- the second day of operations on the trade show floor -- staff at a huge Sony Electronics booth outnumbered customers by about six to one.
The situation elsewhere on the floor wasn't much better.
"It's not been very good," lamented Brian Stuckelman of Dale & Thomas Popcorn, which is pushing a new chocolate-covered popcorn product. "The economy doesn't help. It seems like some companies aren't sending their people here this year."
Ray Estrada of Blair Communications, a Dallas-based marketer of two-way radios for theaters and movie sets, also cited recessionary cost-cutting at entertainment companies.
"I spoke to several people who...
Gloomily, floor traffic appears down at both this year. Vendors blame economy-slackened show attendance and competition from off-site movie screenings.
At one point on Wednesday -- the second day of operations on the trade show floor -- staff at a huge Sony Electronics booth outnumbered customers by about six to one.
The situation elsewhere on the floor wasn't much better.
"It's not been very good," lamented Brian Stuckelman of Dale & Thomas Popcorn, which is pushing a new chocolate-covered popcorn product. "The economy doesn't help. It seems like some companies aren't sending their people here this year."
Ray Estrada of Blair Communications, a Dallas-based marketer of two-way radios for theaters and movie sets, also cited recessionary cost-cutting at entertainment companies.
"I spoke to several people who...
- 10/15/2008
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The exhibition industry is officially in deal mode again. Film theater operator Cinemark Inc. late Friday said it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion. The news came after Canadian corporate buyout specialist Onex Corp. confirmed that it is shopping part or all of the 3,100-screen Loews Cineplex exhibition chain and has retained the investment banking firms of Citigroup Global Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston to aid in the process. The Cinemark transaction ends an investment in the exhibitor by private equity firm the Cypress Group, which originally invested $139 million for a 44% stake in 1996. While the deal had been in the works and was expected, the official unveiling brought about some of its details (HR 3/2). Significantly, Cinemark founder, chairman and CEO Lee Roy Mitchell and other senior executives retain significant equity stakes in the company, Cinemark said, without providing further details.
- 3/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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