Fifth Season Moves Into Second Gear In TV; Adaptations Of ‘Grapes Of Wrath’ From Ramin Bahrani & ‘Love of My Life’ With Amy Adams Lead Next Phase
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season is gearing up for its first full year with new owners and a new name. The company formerly known as Endeavor Content has new owners in Korea’s CJ ENM after a $785M deal and on the television side has moved from a business that scored a number of buzzy orders from streamers to one that is starting to get renewals and move into new areas.
Series such as Apple’s Severance, HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice, Peacock’s Wolf Like Me and even Hulu’s Nicole Kidman-fronted Nine Perfect Strangers, which was originally designed as a limited series, are coming back for second seasons.
Fifth Season is also now looking at new fronts including a growing international business, with the opportunity for global co-productions, and moving into new genres such as romance with the likes of Amy Adams, and searching for its own version of a show like His Dark Materials.
This all comes amid a changing media landscape, one that has seen a flurry of layoffs and restructures, and a looming writers’ strike.
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