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Eight European pubcasters launch co-commissioning group New8

Eight public broadcasters across Europe including Germany’s ZDF and the Nordic five have joined forces to create a new co-commissioning club that aims to coproduce eight scripted projects each year. New8 is seeking projects across genres and will pool the resources from ZDF (Germany), NPO (The Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), […]

News round-up: Newen snags Paramount’s ‘Serial Killers’; NPO, Amazon extend Hat Trick deals; FilmRise buys BuzzFeed Studios library

Newen snags Paramount’s Serial Killer’s Wife Newen Connect has acquired distribution rights to Clapperboard Studio’s and BlackBox Multimedia’s thriller The Serial Killer’s Wife ahead of MIPCOM. The show was ordered by Paramount+ for its UK and Irish service, with the 4 x 60-minute series tracking a man’s arrest for the murde of his assistant. The […]

Discovery+ dramedy ‘Everyone But Us’ travels to Germany & Netherlands

Broadcasters in the Netherlands and Germany have picked up Swedish comedy drama Everyone But Us, following a deal with Eccho Rights. NPO3 and NPO Plus have taken rights in Netherlands, whilst One Gate Media has licensed the free TV rights for NDR Germany as well as the VOD rights for German speaking Europe. The story […]

Telekom/Magenta TV & NPO ink ‘Frannie Langton’ pre-sale deals

Telekom/Magenta TV in Germany and Dutch public broadcaster NPO have struck pre-sale deals for upcoming ITVX period drama The Confessions Of Frannie Langton. Produced by Drama Republic, the four-part series is set to premiere on the upcoming streamer ITVX in the UK this November, as one of the new platform’s launch titles. These new pre-sales […]

NPO, VRT & WDR link with Wild Bunch on dystopian drama ‘Arcadia’

NPO in the Netherlands, Belgium’s VRT and German broadcaster WDR/SWR have linked up with European distributor and producer Wild Bunch TV on a sci-fi thriller set in a dystopian future. Arcadia (8 x 45 minutes) is being produced by Helen Perquy and Philippe De Schepper, with the latter attached as creator alongside Bas Adiraensen. The show picks up after a […]

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