Dancing Ledge Productions has teamed up with best-selling crime novelist Lee Child (Jack Reacher) to produce Lee Child: True Crime, a series about the dramatic real-life stories of people who have put their lives on the line for justice.

Starz has picked up the feature documentary Under the Wire, directed by the BAFTA-nominated Chris Martin, from A+E Networks.

Creator Cristian Conti, stars Juan Pablo Raba and Cristina Umaña, and ZDF Enterprises’ Robert Franke discuss the action-packed series Wild District.

Drama format A Mother’s Guilt is set to be adapted for a local version on FOX in Turkey, co-produced by ABS-CBN in the Philippines and Turkish content production company Limon Yapim.

Russia’s NTV is expanding its presence in the Middle East with the new availability of its period drama Aria of the Doomed, which has been dubbed in Arabic, on the regional VOD platform TenTime.

Roku is expanding The Roku Channel to include premium subscriptions, adding 25-plus offerings from providers such as Showtime, Starz and EPIX.

Aimed at viewers between the ages of 6 and 11, Bionic Max, one of Gaumont's kids' highlights, is a buddy comedy about a bionic guinea pig prototype and a social-outcast goldfish.

A panel at MIPJunior this weekend saw Nickelodeon’s Jules Borkent, Cartoon Network’s Adina Pitt and BBC’s Jackie Edwards weighing in on the future of the children’s media business and discussing their content remits.

ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has scored a slew of presales for The War of the Worlds, which has now been sold in over 80 territories.

GO-N International has licensed the animated preschool series Simon to NHK in Japan.