Stars at Mipcom 2011
Steven Van Zandt (The Sopranos» is promoting his new dramedy Mafia series Lylyhammer. In the series, he embodies Frank «The Fixer» Tagliano who after testifying against his Mafia boss in New York eek refuge in the Norwegian countryside Olympic city Lillehammer that he calls «Lilyhammer». But even the Witness Protection program can’t protect you when the past caches up with you. Distributed by SevenOne International.
Hell on Wheels is produced by Entertainment One in association with Endemol USA and Nomadic Pictures for AMC. Dominique Mc Elligot, Anson Mount and Common star this epic exciting Western series. The series is written and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Murder by Numbers) and John Shiban (X-Files,Breaking Bad). The pilot is directed by David Von Ancken (Californication, Seraphim Falls).
Fran Drescher (The Nanny), writer, producer and star of hit sitcom Happily Divorced appears along side co-writer and Executive Producer Peter Marc Jacobson. The show is inspired by the real life of Fran Drescher. After 18 years of marriage, Fran is shocked to discover that her husband (Joh Michael Higgins) is gay. The back-on-the-single-market LA-based florist must learn to juggle her new relationships and her ex-husband, whom she lives with in the same house post-divorce.
Emmy Award-winning actress Kristen Johnston (Third Rock From The Sun, ER, Ugly Betty, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) leads the cast of brand new TV Land sitcom The Exes, focusing on the lives of three men whose landlord also happens to be their female divorce attorney and avoids her own relationship and commitment issues by becoming immersed in the men’s affairs.
Oliver Peck is one of the most well known «old school» American style artist. He is notorious for his mustache and his larger than life personnality. One of his many accolades includes having his name listed in the Guiness Bokk of Worrlsd records after he successively inked 415 tattoos at his Elm Street tattoo shop in Dallas, Texas, in less than 24 hours, beating his ex-wife, Kat Von D’s record.
Margaret Cho has been attending Mipcom, promoting her new release «Cho Dependent» (her 6th concert) that is represented internationally by Beyond Distribution.
After the recent success of his 3D hit feature length documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, legendary German filmmaker Werner herzog (Aguirre The Wrath Of God, Nosferatu The Vampire, Bad Lieutnant...) has attended Mipcom to present his documentary film of the fate of American convicts on death row Into The Abyss - A Tale of Death, A Tale Of Life, presented by ZDF Enterprises.
Hollywood walks the Croisette Red Carpet
From writer/creator Tim Kring (left) ("Heroes," "Crossing Jordan") and executive producers Peter Chernin (Terra Nova) and Katherine Pope (Terra Nova) comes Touch, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact. Kiefer Sutherland, who’s starring in the series described writer Tim Kring’s Touch as a «genius concept».
Ashley Judd (Double Jeopardy, Kiss the Girls) stars in ABC drama series Missing, written by Greg Poirier (National Book of Treasures: Book of Secrets). Rebecca (Judd), a worried mom travels to Europe to find her son, who has disappeared in Italy while on a studying trip. It soon becomes clear that she isn't any ordinary woman, but a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive.
