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Netflix revives Designated Survivor after ABC cancellation

Netflix will bring back Designated Survivor for a third season, after the show was cancelled by ABC in May. The political drama starring Kiefer Sutherland will be helmed by showrunner Neal Baer from global studio Entertainment One (eOne). Season three will go into production later in the year and return in 2019. Netflix previously held the international […]

Propagate develops Saudi-American title with Jack Ryan actress

Global indie studio Propagate has signed a development deal with actress Dina Shihabi (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) for a scripted series based on the Saudi-American experience. Habibti, the name of the title and a term of endearment in Arabic, is based on the experiences of Shihabi and her Saudi friends living in Los Angeles. The […]

A+E to launch scripted title Project Blue Book globally

A+E Networks is set to launch its latest scripted series Project Blue Book at MIPCOM with the drama’s cast and showrunner to appear in Cannes. Executive produced by Academy Award-winner Robert Zemeckis, the series is set for a US premiere this winter on History. Project Blue Book showrunner, executive producer and writer Sean Jablonski will […]

Red Bull & Beta Film pick up first network partner for JV series

Red Bull and Beta Film have partnered with the first network, Germany’s ARD/Degeto, for the ambitious cross-territory football series The Net. At MIPTV this April Red Bull Media House and Beta Film launched a  proposition for a joint venture series that will be set in five separate territories for eight episodes each. Series from each […]

YouTube orders comedy pilot from Christina Wayne, ITV Studios US

YouTube Premium has given a pilot order to half-hour comedy It’s A Man’s World, produced by Christina Wayne’s Assembly Entertainment in association with ITV Studios America. The pilot is written by Theresa Rebeck (NYPD Blue) and will be executive produced by Wayne. Jill Greenberg is the co-executive producer. Production will start this autumn. It’s A Man’s […]

Intaglio Films develops environmental thriller for debut production

Intaglio Films, the new scripted drama venture between Beta Film and ZDF Enterprises, and ndF International Production are jointly developing an environmental thriller series. The Swarm will be based on Frank Schaetzing’s novel of the same name. It is a global environmental thriller set in the present day, where anomalies and unnatural behavior in marine […]

Netflix orders Zellweger drama, cancels Wolf talk show

Netflix has ordered a new original drama starring Renée Zellweger (pictured), while also revealing that it has cancelled Michelle Wolf’s half-hour talk show. The Zellweger-starring What/If explores the ripple effects of acceptable people doing unacceptable things. Each season of the drama will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source material. It explores […]

Virgin Media TV seeks pitches for drama series

Virgin Media Television (fka TV3 Group) is currently seeking submissions for a new post-watershed, six –part drama, for 2019/2020. The call for titles if part of an on-going drama initiative laid out by the company. Virgin is inviting entrants to explore contemporary themes, new visual styles and narratives, focusing on original, “noisy” ideas with a […]

Tandem, Bron Studios set for thriller from The Bridge scribe

Tandem Productions, a Studiocanal company, and Bron Studios are set to produce a gritty dramatic thriller from The Bridge (pictured) writer Måns Mårlind. The two production outfits will co-produce the eight-part series with Germany’s ZDF. It will be co-financed by a line-up of major international networks, including Viaplay, CCanal+, Canal + Poland and Holland’s NPO. Set […]

Netflix orders Paul Rudd comedy series

Netflix has ordered a comedy series starring Paul Rudd, titled Living With Yourself. Rudd will play a dual role. He is a man struggling with his life who undergoes a novel treatment to become a better person, and finds he’s been replaced by a new and improved version – himself. The Role Models star is […]