Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have won a monthlong bidding war for the rights to Shantaram, the bestselling novel from Gregory David Roberts. The plan is to turn the sprawling 2004 novel set in ...

Based on the Gregory David Roberts novel. By Lesley Goldberg Following a monthlong, multiple outlet bidding war, Amy Powell-led Paramount Television and frequent collaborator Anonymous Content have ...

Before Charlie Hunnam appears in the upcoming crime series Criminal, fans of the Sons of Anarchy star should check out the short-lived television show Shantaram. Criminal, which will be released on ...

In a competitive situation, Apple has landed an international drama series project based on Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling novel Shantaram, from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, to ...

While many books cry out to become films, fewer books have characters deep enough, plots thick enough, and worlds visual enough to translate well into a television series. Married well, the resulting ...

Anonymous Content and Paramount Television have prevailed in a bidding skirmish for the rights to the 2003 novel “Shantaram.” The partners plan to develop the book as a drama series. Anonymous’ Steve ...

Once you get beyond the strange accents, fake locations, lurching plot and white saviour clichés (that is a big ask) Shantaram, based on Gregory David Roberts’ 936 page-tome, is vaguely engrossing.

In a competitive situation, Apple has landed the rights to develop Gregory David Robert’s novel “Shantaram” as a drama series. The 2003 novel tells the story of Lin, a man on the run from an ...