COMMISSION
Former Manchester City and England soccer player Micah Richards fronts “Player Pranks,” a show commissioned by Sky, produced by Zig Zag and Krempelwood. The show sees the Premier League winner team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith for a top-secret mission to prank the great and good of football. In each 30-minute episode, Micah and Smith take to the field with hidden cameras, ingenious props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the U.K.’s most famous soccer personalities, when they least expect it. Stars include former professional soccer player and manager, Chris Kamara, England national soccer star Jill Scott, Micah’s fellow Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, and former Spurs and England star Jermaine Jenas.
The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August as part of the countdown to the 2022/23 soccer season.
Danny Fenton, CEO at Zig Zag said: “Bringing together the infectious Micah Richards in conjunction with Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith and a series of pranks played on football legends for Sky feels like the perfect entertainment combination. We hope the viewers have half as much fun watching it as we did making it.”
Barbara Lee, commissioning editor at Sky said: “We are huge fans of Micah Richards at Sky Max and are delighted to be working with him. He brings infectious fun to everything he does so he’s perfectly cast in this as a mischievous prankster.”
FROM DISNEY TO DENTSU
Former Disney executive Rob Gilby has been appointed by Dentsu International, the multinational advertising agency, as its CEO in the Asia Pacific region. Replacing Ashish Bhasin, who retired in December, Gilby will start from Sept. 5, 2022 and remain based in Singapore. He was MD of Disney in Southeast Asia from 2013 before being ousted in a 2017 reshuffle. Since then, he founded investment and advisory firm Blue Hat Ventures and amassed a string of non-executive board and advisory roles, including Singapore’s Ministry of Communications & Information, the InfoComm Media Development Authority and the Singapore Media Festival. He took an executive position at measurement firm Nielsen in October last year. The new role involves 11,600 staff and stretches over 18 territories.
BACK TO EARTH
Amazon Prime Video has picked up rights to “Rocketry: The Nambi Effect,” a star-studded Indian drama film that was the directorial debut of actor R. Madhavan. The film released in theaters in India and limited international territories on July 1. Amazon says the film will get a global online release as soon as July 26. The biographical drama is based on the life of Indian space research scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was framed for espionage and imprisoned in 1994. The film chronicles his achievements, his passion for the country’s space mission and the accusation that eventually became the biggest personal and professional setback of his life. Produced by Tricolour Films and Varghese Moolan Pictures, the film stars Madhavan, Simran, and Rajit Kapoor with a cameos by Shah Rukh Khan and Suriya.
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