The U.S.-based private equity company KKR & Co. has acquired Germany's Tele München Group (TMG), which has a presence in film and TV production as well as distribution arms in the theatrical, home entertainment, TV and VOD segments.

MIPTV is now two markets in one, Laurine Garaude, director of the television division at Reed MIDEM, tells World Screen Newsflash, with distribution and development as the two main pillars of the show.

Netflix has picked up The Wandering Earth, based on the novella of the same name by Liu Cixin.

Thunderbird Entertainment Group is working with author Cherie Dimaline and TV writer and producer Jennica Harper to adapt the award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves for television.

BBC Studios has licensed Fashion’s Dirty Secrets, presented by Stacey Dooley, into markets such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Africa, Iran and Korea.

Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Widows) has come on board the BBC Two four-part thriller The North Water, set in the U.K. and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s.

A&E Network is premiering its two-hour biography special John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky, which chronicles the lives and marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, on Monday, March 11, at 9 p.m.

Xilam Animation has appointed former Superights exec Safaa Benazzouz to the position of senior VP of media sales distribution for Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe.