Amazon Prime has greenlit the first season of a live action series based on the hit German kids franchise Bibi & Tina.
German director Detlev Buck, who has helmed four hit feature films based on the Biba & Tina stories, is on board for the Amazon adaptation as creator and director. He will be joined by his Bibi & Tina screenwriter, Bettina Borgerding, and Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer, who composed the soundtracks for all four films.
Bibi & Tina will be the streamer's sixth original German-language series and will start production next year.
The Bibi & Tina stories follow the adventures ...
German director Detlev Buck, who has helmed four hit feature films based on the Biba & Tina stories, is on board for the Amazon adaptation as creator and director. He will be joined by his Bibi & Tina screenwriter, Bettina Borgerding, and Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer, who composed the soundtracks for all four films.
Bibi & Tina will be the streamer's sixth original German-language series and will start production next year.
The Bibi & Tina stories follow the adventures ...
- 10/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a first season of “Bibi & Tina,” a live-action series adaptation of the popular German franchise, which already boasts a number of films and an animated show.
The live-action family entertainment series, which will mark Amazon’s sixth German original series, follows the adventures of Bibi, a teenage witch, and her best friend, Tina. The show will reflect “the existing franchise’s central themes of the value of friendship, family, trust, tolerance, ecology and sustainability,” Amazon said in a statement.
The series was announced at a show-and-tell in London on Tuesday. “Bibi & Tina” will roll out exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.
Dcm Pictures and Kiddinx Studios are producing the Prime Original series with Amazon Studios. Detlev Buck, the creative mind and director of the four “Bibi & Tina” movies, is on board to direct the series. Gabriele Salomon is executive producing.
The live-action family entertainment series, which will mark Amazon’s sixth German original series, follows the adventures of Bibi, a teenage witch, and her best friend, Tina. The show will reflect “the existing franchise’s central themes of the value of friendship, family, trust, tolerance, ecology and sustainability,” Amazon said in a statement.
The series was announced at a show-and-tell in London on Tuesday. “Bibi & Tina” will roll out exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.
Dcm Pictures and Kiddinx Studios are producing the Prime Original series with Amazon Studios. Detlev Buck, the creative mind and director of the four “Bibi & Tina” movies, is on board to direct the series. Gabriele Salomon is executive producing.
- 10/2/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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