STOLEN

The greatest transfer of wealth in history.
The rise and fall of the men and women who moved it.

In the dying throws of a vast empire a small group of men and women would go from poverty to power at breakneck speed.  Having amassed the wealth of an entire civilization they would begin to believe they ruled their country, until a new power would push them to the margins.

The men and women depicted are composite characters – but the stories of how they rose and fell are based on something entirely real.

Constructed with consultation from people who saw the events first hand, “Oligarchs” is a startling, shocking, and truthful account of the building of a new nation - and gives greater understanding to issues never more relevant than today.

Written by: Brendan Foley
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Ben Hur)
Format: 8x50
Materials: Pilot Script, Bible, Visual Presentation

Dancing daggers

In the land of Eldland, nestled in the mountains between the three great kingdoms sits a small and dangerous inn. The Dancing Daggers Inn. Wherein, a young woman has been murdered.

But when Wizard-Detective Kendlewood and his halfling apprentice Gilly arrive it becomes clear that this isn’t a simple case. The victim is Nim - the elven princess - and she was there to negotiate a peace settlement, looking to end a war that’s been raging for centuries. Within are spies, kings, knights and rogues of every type found in fantasy.

With a list of suspects including royalty from multiple sides of the war Kendlewood and Gilly need to solve the case before word gets out, and a fragile ceasefire deteriorates into an even more intractable bloodbath…

In Partnership with: Court 5 and Starlings TV
Showrunner: Kim Newton (Gotham, The Blacklist)
Directed by: Adam Kane (American Gods, Prodigal Son)
Created by: The Burgos Brothers
Format: 10x55, Returnable
Materials: Pilot Script, Deck, Live Pitch
Practical Effects by: Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings, Dune)

Debriefing the president

Based on the controversial bestseller by John Nixon, the first man to identify and interrogate Saddam after his capture. As the Iraq War rages around them, a bookish CIA Analyst is given the task of interrogating Saddam in hopes of stopping the insurgency. But Saddam has designs of his own…

In Partnership with: AR Content
Starring: Joel Kinnaman
Directed by: Jasmila Žbanić
Produced by: Alexander Rodneyansky
Format: Limited Series in 4 parts

Portobello road

The year is 1973 - the music scene has never been more vibrant, exciting, or full of life. But Portobello Road music management is struggling - an aging roster of artists and a catalogue value just enough for the company’s “old hand” Sam to be able to retire without too much trouble…

Until Penny shakes things up. She’s been given the company by her father as an early inheritance and she’s desperate to make her mark. Diving straight into the world of sex-drugs-and-rock’n’roll she will do whatever she can to make Portobello Road the centre for a new era of music.

Portobello Road is the CALL MY AGENT of the 1970s London music scene. With Executive Producer Eric Clapton, and original music by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb - as well as a cavalcade of needle-drop classics of the era - Portobello Road will sound, look, and feel like a world everyone recognises, but nobody has seen before.

In Partnership With: Starlings TV
Written and Directed by: Steve Shill (Dexter, The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome)
Format: 10x60, Returnable
Consulting Producer: John McLaughlin (Black Swan, Parker)
Artists: Eric Clapton, Barry Gibb
Executive Sound Mixer: Tim Cave-in (Bohemian Rhapsody, Baby Driver)
Music Supervisor: Bill Oakes (Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Casting by: Kate Rhodes James (Line of Duty, House of Gucci, House of the Dragon)