Elaine Pyke, Head of Drama:
"Our Sinbad is 21, reckless, utterly charming and cursed. Mysticism, magic, monsters and high octane action adventure, this Sinbad is always exciting and sometimes challenging. This unique series will have the ambition of Lost and the pace of 24 and take the viewer to visually stunning locations on both sea and land. Sky's Sinbad will be a multi-layered series for today's prime time audience."Sophie Gardiner, Impossible Pictures:
"This is a hugely ambitious project and we're thrilled to partner with Sky to reinvigorate this much loved action hero. We're confident that Sinbad will confound audience's expectations and create a big, noisy series for Sky 1."Sinbad is a co-production with BBC Worldwide, so US audiences can probably expect this to appear on BBC America shortly after its Sky premiere.
Sky also have the following programmes on the way: Dogumentary (a series on dog grooming salons); a Ben Fogle-presented documentary on Prince Williams's visit to Africa; five-part documentary Ross Kemp Extreme World; crime drama Thorne, starring David Morrissey, based on Mark Billingham's novels; docu-comedy An Idiot Abroad, where Ricky Gervais's cohort Karl Pilkington gives his unique perspective on foreign countries; and the four-part drama Mad Dogs, about a group of now-adult school friends who run into trouble during a retirement party abroad, which will reunite Life On Mars's Philip Glenister and John Simm.
Stuart Murphy, Sky's Director of Programmes:
"As a team we've made a commitment to turn the channel into one that will not only give more value to current subscribers, but one which will also encourage those who don't currently have Sky to get us. In just over a year we've shifted the budget around to put terrestrial levels of spend behind our commissioned shows... it means a focus on 'less is more,' commissioning fewer shows, which allows us to hire the best presenters, actors, writers, production teams and to create shows which have unquestionably high levels of quality."
