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Paris-based Superprod has acquired The Co-Production Company, founded by Doug Schwalbe.

Double Nickel Entertainment has acquired all scripted and documentary rights to Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous, a definitive biography of Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law.

Two Rivers Media and Chateau TV have been commissioned to produce Escape to the Chateau: Secret France (w.t.) for Channel 4.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded programs about the January 6 insurrection and an exonerated Guantanamo prisoner with the International Emmys for news and current affairs.

Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton, Alex Rider) has joined Synchronicity Films and Photoplay Films’ Song of the Sun God adaptation and will star in the lead role and serve as associate producer.

Magic Light Pictures’ half-hour special The Smeds and The Smoos is slated to air on BBC One at Christmas.

BBC Studios has aligned with the free-to-view satellite television provider Openview in South Africa to launch the multi-genre channel BBC UKTV.

Nico Rossmann has been hired by Brainpool TV, part of Banijay Germany, as co-managing director, responsible for overseeing a new comedy unit within the label.

In this third and final Québec Creates report before MIPCOM, we’re highlighting a kids’ sitcom, an acclaimed youth drama, a documentary about Afro-descendants in Canada, a series on cat lovers, a long-running comedy show, a charming new animated series, a YA drama and a female-led TV-movie thriller.

The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific has added additional originals from Korea and Japan to launch on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar in the coming months.