Kristin Brzoznowski

New details for the upcoming Series Mania were unveiled at press conferences in Lille and Paris, including news that Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) and Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) will be among the guests of honor.

This MIPTV will see the introduction of the MIP Buyers Exchange, a new service to facilitate the sales and presales process.

New Regency has set up New Regency Television International, a London-based division to produce TV content for the global marketplace.

Netflix and Hasbro have teamed up with Rooster Teeth to bring War for Cybertron, set in the Transformers universe, to Netflix members around the world as an original series.

Ilene Chaiken, who has worked on hit series such as The Handmaid’s Tale, Empire and The L Word, is slated for a keynote interview at MIPTV.

Amazon Prime Video has greenlit more than 20 new and returning original series to go into production in Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, Mexico and the U.K., including the global thriller The Power, based on the best-selling and award-winning novel.

FOX Entertainment has launched Sidecar, a content-development accelerator, to be led by Gail Berman.

The New York Times best-selling thriller Pieces of Her from crime author Karin Slaughter is being adapted as a Netflix original series.

Amazon Studios and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society have entered into a first-look deal to develop and produce original series.

Tech company DistroScale is launching DistroTV, a streaming service that will feature a mix of entertainment, news, sports, film and TV programming in live, linear and on-demand formats.