by Thinus Ferreira
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has sold its upcoming action-comedy series Twisted Metal with Anthony Mackie to M-Net and MultiChoice's Showmax video streaming service in South Africa and for sub-Saharan Africa.
Sony Pictures Television struck the deal for Twisted Metal as the annual LA Screenings that are underway in Los Angeles this week, with South African TV executives who are attending like Waldimar Pelser, M-Net director for premium channels, and Marlon Davids, managing director of e.tv channels.
The SPT deal means that South Africans will watch Twisted Metal on MultiChoice's Showmax video streamer first, followed by DStv subscribers seeing it on MultiChoice's M-Net (DStv 101) channel for a linear airing.
Twisted Metal is based on the PlayStation video game series and is making its worldwide premiere on 27 June in the United States on the Peacock video streaming service.
The action-comedy series stars Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz, and follows John Doe, a milkman who talks as fast as he drives.
With no memory of his past, John gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make his wish of finding community come true, but only if he can survive an onslaught of savage vehicular combat.
"At a time when everyone is looking for content that stands apart, clients acknowledge there is nothing else out there like Twisted Metal," says Mike Wald, executive vice president of distribution & networks at Sony Pictures Television.
