An action drama feature

When a powerful storm sends their shipping container crashing into the ocean, four stowaways are forced to fight for their own survival, not just against the elements but also against each other.

The story centers on Faiza, a 30-something, conservative, Muslim woman from Yemen and her brother Mohammed, a domineering former soldier. Together with a peculiar, fugitive poet, the couple travels in a 40-foot shipping container to Europe to escape a dangerous political situation back home. Along the way they are joined by Ibrahim, a friendly blabbermouth with a dark secret, he is a bounty hunter who is hot on the trail of Faiza’s illusive son, who he suspects is Al Qaeda’s shadowy master bomb maker.

A TV black comedy-drama

A Russian businessman is struggling to keep his company afloat so he’s relieved when his old partner and best friend returns after 15 years with the money to solve his problems, but it soon becomes clear that friend has returned for a different reason because he wants revenge for his attempted murder.

In the pilot we meet Andrey Matouzov a businessman who runs a once-lucrative firm in Moscow and lives with his wife Lena and 18 year-old son Andrey Junior in the exclusive suburb of Rubylovka, the Russian equivalent of Beverly Hills. It’s a neighborhood so opulent, even Putin owns a house there.

Whereas once they were rich, now the Matouzovs try to maintain the impression that they’re still wealthy, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to maintain that lifestyle and even harder to keep paying all of his employees. A lifeline seems to appear when Alexander Korobov, Andrey’s oldest friend, returns from the United States and promises to invest in the company. At a dinner for the whole firm, however, Korobov reveals that Andrey once tried to have him murdered so he’ll happily give the company and its employees $20m, but only if they kill Andrey.

A drama feature with a dose of dark comedy

A young New Yorker trades Brooklyn for a remote cabin in rural California, but his cherished tranquility comes to an abrupt end when his terminally-ill brother suddenly shows up and reveals a shocking secret about the past.

The story centers on Dean, a 20-something Brooklyn hipster who escapes society and vanishes from the connected world and civilization by living in the wilds of California, five miles from the closest human being. He lives off the land and has found peace in his tranquil surroundings. Then he gets a surprise visit from his brother, Peter, and he’s not happy about it. Dean urges Peter to leave him alone, but his brother insists on staying and reveals a disturbing truth – he has a brain tumor and perhaps only days or hours to live. Peter’s dying wish is to take a road trip to see Big Sur with his brother. Before long though, it becomes clear he also wants to tell Dean another secret about the past, about the murder of their father, which led Dean to disappear out here in the middle of nowhere.

A comedy feature

A failed entrepreneur returns to the mining town where he grew up and convinces several old friends to stage a mine collapse and pretend they’re trapped, so they can become media sensations, and rake in millions from book and TV deals.

The town of Lugnerburg is a Pennsylvania hamlet that has been hard hit by an economic downturn and its reliance on a local coalmine. Returning for his mom’s funeral, perpetual entrepreneur Mickey is welcomed home by his brother Brett, but few other locals are pleased to see him because he fleeced them with his silly money-making ideas. But when Mickey sees the media frenzy surrounding some miners who were trapped after a mine collapse in San Marcos, he comes up with his wildest scheme yet. Those miners have been lavished with book and TV deals, rumored to be around $100m, so Mickey suggests to his brother and closest friends that they fake being trapped in the Lugnerburg mine. An Old Timer has long rambled about a secret entrance to the mine, which they subsequently use to sneak out while rescuers attempt to reach them. Once they’ve become a media sensation, they will hurry back into the mine just in time to be rescued and become millionaires. It is, they agree, a brilliant plan. So what could go wrong?

TV buddy comedy

Charlie and the Manny follows newborn-baby Charlene and her reluctant nanny, and uncle, Owen, the only person who sees his niece as an adult in baby clothing.

In the pilot episode, perpetual adolescent Owen has his leisurely life as a kept man abruptly come to an end following the death of his rich older lady. Faced with limited options, he moves in with his brother’s family where he gets roped into being their baby’s nanny.