Financing and distribution company, BossaNova Media, has greenlit 8 x 60 ‘history mystery’ series Ruins Rise And Fall.
Produced by Argonon-owned Like A Shot, the show uses immersive 3D-CGI to reanimate ruins from around the ancient world.
Ruins Rise And Fall is a Development Day project, a decade-old in-house initiative which aims to fast-track the commissioning and production of factual projects with international potential. BossaNova Media has for the first time guaranteed the whole production budget for the series, “signalling the confidence the company has in the show.”
Ruins Rise And Fall takes the audience to eight global locations using hyper-realistic digital restorations of the sites to their former glory – from Mongolian fortress cities lost in the sands to Roman settlements built to defend against the Celtic warrior hordes.
In each location viewers get a glimpse into a lost world, visually brought back to life through cutting-edge technology and expert contributors. The final pay-off is a “stunning” photo realistic 3D-CGI timeline model displaying the site’s evolution from construction to its current state.
Paul Heaney said: “Some projects you invest in are bit of a risk, Ruins Rise And Fall isn’t one of them. Using cutting edge technology to reinvent the sub genre and to fulfil a need that we feel is there but due to a lack of commissions in this area, isn’t. This is where BossaNova can work its magic. Like A Shot delivered the evergreen, returning worldwide hit Abandoned Engineering over 10 years ago (following a brief from that Channel 7 Australia legend, Angus Ross). The rest is history… or rather history and engineering. If I had a tv channel, I’d buy Ruins Rise And Fall.”
Ruins Rise And Fall joins a slate of successful shows from the Development Day such as Days That Shocked the World which has recently been acquired by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) EMEA and Sky NZ, following pre-sales to SBS, Channel 4 and TV2.
Jon Creamer
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