Mark Heap & More Join ITVX Drama ‘Significant Other’
Mark HeapFriday Night Dinner, Spaced), Kéllé Bryan (Me and Mrs Jones) and Shaun Williamson (EastEnders, ExtrasITVX comedy has added the following cast members: Significative Other. Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Here We Go) and Youssef Kerkour (Stay CloseThe show’s leads (ITV Studios-owned Quaystreet Productions) have been already announced. Today’s casting announcements include Ben Bailey Smith and Sue Vincent as well as Olivia Poulet, Will Ash, and Olivia Poulet. The series will be followed by the “unromantic romance of two people whose drastic, but fateful, first meeting turns their lives around.” Based on Yes Studios’ Israeli series of the same name, it is currently filming in Manchester, UK and will debut on upcoming streaming service ITVX in 2023. ITV Studios has international distribution rights.
‘Drag Race’The Asia Start Grid
Veteran distributor Gary Pudney’s O4 Media has struck a deal to represent World of Wonder’sDrag Raceformat across Asia, in territories including Thailand, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. After being introduced in 2009 by Logo TV in the United States, the drag competition format has been successfully adapted to Australia, France and Canada. O4 will also offer a spin-off format Secret Celebrity Drag Race into Asia. Celebrities are seen trying to perform lip sync, while concealing their true identity behind drag personas.
‘Candyman’And ‘Elm Street’Actors join ‘What Happened To Dorothy Bell?’
EXCLUSIVE: Writer/director Danny Villanueva Jr.’s horror feature What happened to Dorothy Bell? As supporting cast, Lisa Wilcox (Michael Hargrove) has been added. The show is being billed as “a…” “nightmarish coming-of-age found footage horror,”Asya Meadows will be following Ozzie Gray (Asya) as she videos her investigation into the traumatic incidents that occurred in her childhood, which included Dorothy Bell, her grandmother. Hargrove will portray her father while Wilcox will be a trauma therapist. Hargrove was most recently the Candyman Sherman Fields in the Jordan Peele-produced CandymanLast year, Wilcox was the star of In Nightmare on Elm Street‘s fourth and fifth films. Steven Alonte (The Cathedral), Sargon Odicho, Arlene Arnone, and J. Anthony Ramos also star. Production begins early 2023 in the Chicago area under I Dream of a Psychopomp director Villanueva’How Bizarre Pictures, an independent production company.
Nippon TV To Launch ‘Vocals Like Locals’, ‘First Kiss Boys’ATF
Japan’s Nippon TV is launching two new formats at the upcoming Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) in Singapore – unscripted show Vocals Like LocalsScripted series First Kiss Boys First Kiss Ladies.Vocals Like LocalsA reality singing competition where contestants try to sound native while singing a local song. Celebrity judges choose a winner and will get the opportunity to meet the artist of their favorite local song. Targeted at Gen Z audiences First Kiss BoysThis drama series, which is half-hour long, will be followed by a dating mockumentary. It consists of ten episodes. First Kiss LadiesThe crossover story will bring together the drama series and the saga. First Kiss BoysThe story follows a schoolboy, who soon after getting his first kiss from the young girl he loves, moves to a different school.