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The executive director of Kanal D International and the sales exec for LatAm and Spain discuss the strengths of the company’s content offering and the rapid take-up of Kanal D Drama.

GMA Worldwide is highlighting three family dramas at NATPE, including Prima Donnas, the story of three heiresses and the pursuit of their real identities and rights in their family.

Sisters Yildiz and Zeynep, though close to one another, have very different characteristics and life goals in the Calinos Entertainment NATPE highlight Forbidden Fruit.

SYFY has given a straight-to-series order for Chucky, featuring the red-haired, freckled-faced doll possessed by the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray known from the Child's Play horror films.

Fremantle has appointed Manuel Martí to the newly created position of head of scripted development for Latin America, based in Mexico City.

Eccho Rights has closed a number of new deals for the Turkish drama series The Promise, produced by Karamel Yapim.

Toronto-based marblemedia has acquired the rights to The Other Boy, the best-selling novel from M.G. Hennessey about a transgender boy on the cusp of puberty.

Rise of Empires: Ottoman, a new docudrama produced by the Red Arrow Studios company Karga Seven Pictures in association with STXtv, is slated to bow on Netflix later this month.

The Cry producer Synchronicity Films has optioned the rights to thriller writer Craig Russell’s Lennox book series, set in Glasgow in the 1950s.

Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Guerrilla) has come on board an as-yet-untitled musical drama series for Showtime as executive producer, writer and director.