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Bavaria Media International’s selections in the TV Movies Screenings Festival include the sci-fi thriller Exit—#1nfin1ty, set in 2047, which Carlos Hertel, the company’s director of international sales, refers to as a “tightly-wound near-future thriller with a long list of virtual and digital ingredients.”

Synchronicity Films is again working with author Helen FitzGerald (The Cry), optioning the rights to her novel Bloody Women to develop as a series.

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone film, WarnerMedia Kids & Family has lined up two new unscripted Wizarding World specials: a limited Harry Potter fan quiz competition series and a film retrospective.

Entertainment One (eOne) is set to launch the second season of Ricky Zoom through ViacomCBS Networks UK, Nick Jr. and Channel 5’s Milkshake!

The number of SVOD subscribers in Malaysia hit 2.3 million in the first quarter, according to new data from Media Partners Asia (MPA), with Netflix, iQIYI and Viu leading the premium video market.

The BBC has revealed six new commissions for its drama slate, including a series from Candice Carty-Williams, writer of the best-selling novel Queenie.

CAKE and Kickstart Entertainment have launched CakeStart, a full-service production company that will develop and produce live-action projects.

Hendrik McDermott, managing director of hayu, talks about NBCUniversal’s reality-TV SVOD service, which recently celebrated its five-year anniversary.

Apple TV+ has ordered Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show, a live-action series from creators Jack McBrayer (30 Rock, Phineas and Ferb, Wreck-It Ralph franchise) and Angela C. Santomero (Blue’s Clues, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood).

Red Arrow Studios International has acquired 16 new romantic-comedy and holiday TV-movie titles, produced by North American production companies and commissioned by such U.S. networks as Hallmark, Lifetime and A&E.