{"id":2341841,"date":"2026-03-23T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2341841"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:38:08","slug":"banijay-entertainment-dials-up-global-scripted-with-premium-series-mania-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/banijay-entertainment-dials-up-global-scripted-with-premium-series-mania-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Entertainment Dials Up Global Scripted with Premium Series Mania Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Media and entertainment powerhouse, Banijay Entertainment, today unveils its premium scripted offering for Series Mania, showcasing a broad range of high-end drama from across its global portfolio. As the number one European studio in scripted, with more than 100 titles launching each year, the company continues to demonstrate its scale, creative strength, global reach and advantage as a platform agnostic player.<\/p>\n<p>The slate features major new UK titles <em>A Woman of Substance<\/em>,<em> Falling<\/em>, and<em> Half Man<\/em>; streamer titles <em>Motorvalley<\/em>, <em>BOHO <\/em>and <em>La Nena <\/em>from Italy, Belgium and Spain respectively; French series <em>Montmartre<\/em> and <em>Marie-Line Incognito<\/em>; and from Sweden, a contemporary re-imagining of iconic detective drama <em>Wallander<\/em> alongside the character-driven psychological drama, <em>My Brother<\/em>, selected for competition in Lille.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Matthews, Head of Scripted, Creative and Johannes Jensen, Head of Scripted, Business at Banijay Entertainment, comment:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cBanijay Entertainment\u2019s creative community is shaping culture and delivering unmissable scripted content for partners and audiences across all platforms. We\u2019re scaling innovation, backing talent, investing in development, and pushing into new ways to tell ambitious stories. With all eyes on European drama at Series Mania, this line-up is a snapshot of the energy and ambition our scripted labels foster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leading the slate is The Forge\u2019s brand-new adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford\u2019s iconic <em>A Woman of Substance<\/em>, and <em>Falling<\/em>, a modern love story from BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne, both for Channel 4. Also, <em>Half Man<\/em> from Emmy-winning creator Richard Gadd, produced by Mam Tor Productions in association with Thistledown Pictures, for the BBC, BBC Scotland, and HBO.<\/p>\n<p>Streamer originals include Gr\u00f8enlandia\u2019s high-speed family saga <em>Motorvalley <\/em>for Netflix;<em> BOHO<\/em>, a contemporary women-centred dramedy from jonnydepony, created by writer\u00a0Abbie Boutkabout for Streamz; and <em>La Nena<\/em>, an intense crime thriller from Diagonal TV in association with\u00a0Buend\u00eda Estudios Canarias, the latest adaptation in the Carmen Mola universe for Atresmedia.<\/p>\n<p>Further international highlights include the historical drama <em>Montmartre, <\/em>produced by Authentic Prod for TF1, and character-driven procedural dramedy <em>Marie-Line Incognito <\/em>from DMLS Films, also for TF1. They sit alongside the re-imagining of <em>Wallander<\/em> from Jarowskij\/ YellowBird \u00a0and Banijay Rights for TV4 and ARD Degeto, with Gustaf Skarsg\u00e5rd leading a contemporary take on one of Europe\u2019s most enduring detective franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Selected for Series Mania\u2019s competition is Filmlance\u2019s <em>My Brother<\/em>, a tense and atmospheric drama exploring fractured loyalties and family turmoil, and DLO\u2019s true life political thriller <em>An Anatomy of a Moment <\/em>for Movistar+. Banijay Rights\u2019 <em>These Sacred Vows<\/em>, an Irish comedy-drama from Treasure Entertainment for RT\u00c9 is part of the official selection for the International Panorama section of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Screenings strand will showcase Topkapi\u2019s\u00a0<em>Etty<\/em>, a bold and inventive reinterpretation of Etty Hillesum\u2019s diaries by Hagai Levi, co-produced with Les Films du Poisson, Komplizen Serien, Arte France and Quiddity. Events in Lille also include a special 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary screening for Zodiak Kids &amp; Family France\u2019s <em>Totally Spies!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Complementing the Series Mania showcase is a broader pipeline of scripted releases from across the Banijay Entertainment network. <em>Peaky Blinders <\/em>is set to return with two six-part series produced by Kudos and Garrison Drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK and for Netflix globally. Additional forthcoming releases include <em>Unchosen<\/em> from Double Dutch, Pokeepsie Film\u2019s <em>Enfrentados <\/em>for Prime Video; and the third season of <em>The Buccaneers <\/em>from The Forge for Apple TV+.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.banijay.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media and entertainment powerhouse, Banijay Entertainment, today unveils its premium scripted offering for Series Mania, showcasing a broad range of high-end drama from across its global portfolio. As the number one European studio in scripted, with more than 100 titles launching each year, the company continues to demonstrate its scale, creative strength, global reach and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[453965,453994,453995,351064,453996,350569,401879,453997],"class_list":["post-2341841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-a-woman-of-substance","tag-diagonal-tv","tag-falling","tag-half-man","tag-marie-line-incognito","tag-richard-gadd","tag-series-mania","tag-steve-matthews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Banijay-Entertainment-Dials-Up-Global-Scripted-with-Premium-Series-Mania.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341843,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341841\/revisions\/2341843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}