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The increased demand for scripted formats globally is significant, according to All3Media International’s executive VPs of sales, with adaptations tripling between 2021 and 2022 and success continuing into 2023 and beyond.

Invisible Boys, based on the book by the same name by Holden Sheppard, has been commissioned by Stan to become a ten-part original drama series.

Banijay’s Endemol Shine Poland is set to produce an adaptation of Temptation Island for Polsat to debut this fall.

Stephen Tate, head of entertainment and factual programming at Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), will be departing the role on September 1 after over two decades with the company.

A second season of Fred Rogers Productions’ Alma’s Way is slated to premiere on PBS KIDS on September 18 with a week of new episodes.

Federation Studios, active in the kids and family, drama and documentary space, has appointed a number of new executives for its distribution division.

GRB Studios and Media Ranch are aligning for a distribution joint venture that will house more than 5,000 hours of factual, unscripted and scripted programming, as well as a slate of formats in all genres.

At the Australian Children’s Content Summit, Screen Producers Australia (SPA) CEO Matthew Deaner expressed concerns about the lack of Australian children’s content on the country’s commercial free-to-air channels and urged the government to conduct an immediate review of the Australian Content and Children’s Television Standards (ACCTS).

The second season of the Australian drama The Newsreader is set to air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this fall.

Kate Beal, chair of the recently launched Association of True Crime Producers (ATCP), discusses the group’s mission to establish and enforce best practice guidelines for the true-crime genre.