13th Nov 2021
Keshet Studios' and UTV's disaster drama LA BREA renewed by NBC
This season’s highest rating new drama, La Brea, has been reordered from Keshet Studios and Universal TV by NBC for a second season.
Produced by Keshet Studios, the US production arm of Keshet International, and Universal Television, La Brea is the top rating new program this fall in the 18-49 demo, reaching more than 47 million viewers across linear and digital platforms.
The La Brea pilot, which premiered Sept 28 on NBC, currently stands at a 3.6 in 18-49 and 19.8 million viewers.
When a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles at the site of the La Brea Tar Pits and Wilshire Boulevard, hundreds of people, vehicles and buildings (including the distinctive Petersen Automotive Museum) are pulled into its depths.
The cast includes Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Jack Martin, Zyra Gorecki, Jon Seda, Chiké Okonkwo, Karina Logue, Veronica St. Clair, Rohan Mirchandaney, Nicholas Gonzalez, Lily Santiago, Chloe De Los Santos and Josh McKenzie.
Writer David Appelbaum executive produces with Peter Traugott (Keshet Studios), Alon Shtruzman (Keshet International), Avi Nir (Keshet Media Group), Rachel Kaplan, Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt and Ken Woodruff.
Keshet Studios and Universal Television are working also together with writer and executive producer David E Kelley on the straight-to-series 8-part drama The Missing for Peacock.
Adapted for US television by David E Kelley (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers), The Missing will be based on the novel The Missing File by renowned Israeli crime writer Dror A Mishani and will starr Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox, Oslo, Breathe) in the lead role as NYPD Detective Avraham Avraham, whose belief in mankind is his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth.
Keshet Studios currently has more than a dozen projects at various stages of development or production, including limited and returning series, short-form dramas, and feature-length films. The studio is currently in production with Echo 3 (based on Keshet 12’s When Heroes Fly) starring Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman and Jessie Collins for Apple TV+, while it’s epic straight-to-series La Brea, co-produced with UTV, is this fall’s top-rated freshman series.
Other recent projects include The Baker and The Beauty (ABC) – which trended #1 after being picked up by Netflix; Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (NBC); the critically acclaimed Our Boys (HBO); four seasons of YA drama Dead Girls Detective Agency (Snap); and the studio's first two feature films, The Sound of Silence and Save Yourselves! - both selected for the Sundance Film Festival's US dramatic competition.