KC Global Media Embarks on Scripted Series 'Jonesy'
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KC GLOBAL EMBARKS ON SCRIPTED SERIES ‘ JONESY’

KC Global Media, which operates a string of channels across Asia including AXN, anime channel Animax, South Korea’s ONE and Japanese entertainment channel GEM, has unveiled its first script development of a sci-fi live action series, “Jonesy.” The show is a sci-fi fantasy thriller action-comedy series set in the year 2029, with eight episodes of 15-20 minutes each. Production will be with Singapore-based production agency, Monochromatic Pictures, while development is supported through the Capability Partnership Programme (CPP) operated by the country’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. The show sees an internet crazy shut-in man driven to extremes by violent weather systems which carry with them supernatural beasts intent on devouring humankind. With his imaginary friend, the man learns to navigate the new world alone, confront his fears, battle colorful foes, and become humanity’s new hope when he kills one of the monsters during a livestream.

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Leading film industry names including include Shaun Grant (“Nitram,” “The Snowtown Murders”), Kai Yu Wu (“The Flash,” “Paper Girls”), Sarah Lambert (“Lambs of God,” “Love Child”), Stuart Beattie (“Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “I Frankenstein”), Hunter Covington (“Community,” “Black AF”) and Stacy Traub (“Black-Ish,” “Glee”) take on roles as mentors to nine aspiring screenwriters at accelerator program Impact Australia. The eight-week event launched in Melbourne Tuesday and runs for eight-weeks, culminating in the Pitch Day in January 2023. It is backed by Impact and Gentle Giant Media Group, and backed by Screen Australia, the University of Melbourne, VicScreen, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland and Screen Canberra. The nine selected are: “Other People,” by Jordan Prosser; “After Her,” by Sunanda Sachatrakul; “Don’t You Remember,” by Dannika Horvat; “Norfolk,” by Elias Jamieson Brown; “The Mandala,” by Joel Perlgut and Victoria Zerbst; “The Almost Insufferable Burden of Being a Talented Woman,” by Siobhan Domingo; “Roxbury Manor,” by Paul Clarke; and “Poly” by Naomi Telushkin.

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