‘Magnificent Century’ Producer Timur Savci on Launching Turkish Show ‘Modern Woman’ at MipTV as ‘Century’ Goes on Metaverse (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Producer Timur Savci co-heads prolific Turkish shingle Tims & B that a decade ago made “Magnificent Century” the Ottoman costume drama that spearheaded the country’s TV boom.
Savci and his team are currently at the MipTV market in Cannes with their new show “Modern Woman” (pictured above) in which a young working woman in Turkey who is single and stuck in between Eastern and Western lifestyles.
It’s the first time they’ve fully financed the first season of a series and taken it to market as a readymade. Global Agency is selling.
The Tims co-chief, his partner Burak Sağyaşar, and the company’s director of international operations Selin Arat spoke exclusively to Variety about working with Netflix and Disney+, putting “Century” on the Metaverse, and why they’ve made “Modern Woman” themselves so they can hold on to their IP. Tims is launching a new series “Modern Woman” at MipTV.
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