Sierra/Engine Television has hooked up with producer Michael Ohoven of Infinity Media to produce and distribute the new one-hour drama series Siberia.
Ohoven, whose screen credits include the Oscar-nominated Capote (2005) and the upcoming Pawn Shop Chronicles starring The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, Paul Walker and Elijah Wood, will executive produce Siberia together with Sierra/Engine CEO Chris Philip. Sierra is handling worldwide distribution rights for the series and will launch the first 13-episode season at the international television market MIPTV in Cannes next month.
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The drama is set in the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska, the location of a Survival-style reality-TV show. The show's unwitting contestants soon realize something isn't right when strange things begin to happen, somehow linked to a meteor that struck the region in 1908. Soon, the competitors find themselves banding together to survive. Siberia is currently in production with six episodes in the can.
Also on the Sierra/Engine MIPTV slate this year is NBC's pirates series Crossbones starring John Malkovich which British writer Neil Cross, creator of Emmy-nominated series Luther, developed for the small screen; The After, the new series from X-Files creator Chris Carter and action series Rescue 3 starring Dolph Lundgren.