Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has optioned Lizzy Barber’s psychological thriller Out of Her Depth for development as a series.

Zinc Media Group’s Red Sauce has been commissioned by Channel 5 to produce 54 hours of programming for the Bargain Loving Brits brand, marking the largest volume deal ever received by a Zinc Media label.

Kalpna Patel-Knight has been tapped to take up the newly created head of entertainment commissioning role at the BBC.

The manager of Screen Auckland talks about what makes the New Zealand city such an attractive filming destination.

The HISTORY Channel has expanded its popular franchise Alone with two new spin-offs: Alone: The Skills Challenge and Alone: Frozen.

Celebrities have been featured in formats for years—from serving as hosts and judges to appearing in celebrity spin-off versions of shows—but now there are a number of new formats with famous faces starring as the main participants right from launch.

Armoza Formats has secured a commission of the CGI-based studio game-show format Family Piggy Bank in Portugal.

Gusto TV has partnered with LG Channels to make its cookery channel available in 19 countries via the streaming service.

A+E Networks UK has commissioned for Sky HISTORY the new documentary series Royal Autopsy, produced by Phoenix Television and Motion Content Group.

The survival game Grounded, from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox, is set to be adapted as a TV series in association with Waterproof Studios/SC Productions, Kinetic Media and Bardel Entertainment.