World Screen

NEW YORK: Production has begun on the ten-part contemporary espionage series Berlin Station, set to premiere on premium TV network EPIX in 2016. The series is produced by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Shooting will take place in Berlin, and the …

SANTA MONICA: Lionsgate has inked a multi-year first-look television deal with producer Joel Silver and his outfit Silver Pictures Television. Silver, known for feature films like the Lethal Weapon and Matrix franchises, previously worked on the television shows Veronica Mars …

TORONTO: The first novel in Giles Blunt's best-selling John Cardinal Mysteries book series serves as the basis for Cardinal (working title), a new murder-mystery drama ordered by CTV from Sienna Films and Entertainment One. The serialized six-parter kicks off production in …

LONDON: Filming has begun on a second season of the BBC One drama In the Club from BAFTA-winning writer Kay Mellor. The contemporary drama puts a spotlight on pregnancy, imminent birth, love and the changing nature of relationships that babies …

TORONTO: Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones) has been cast as the lead in Frontier, Discovery Canada's first scripted series that is set to air around the world on Netflix. Shooting in 4K UHD, the six-part drama was created by Rob …

SYDNEY/LONDON/MUNICH: SBS Australia has picked up the rights to The Last Panthers, a six-part crime drama commissioned by Sky and CANAL+. Jointly distributed by STUDIOCANAL and Sky Vision, the drama starring Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, Goran Bogdan and John Hurt …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has picked up the global distribution rights, excluding Scandinavia, for Viva Hate, a miniseries from Swedish production company Anagram Film & TV. Set in Sweden during the early 1990s, Viva Hate tells the story of Daniel, …

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has signed an agreement with Macedonia’s Kanal 5 for the Hungarian thriller series Stone in the River. Stone in the River centers on a tourist boat with 116 people on board that disappeared from a river near …

MUMBAI: The India-based TV-content sales agency GoQuest Media Ventures has licensed the Turkish crime drama series Ezel into Nigeria. GoQuest Media Ventures licensed the drama from Eccho Rights, which distributes the show internationally. Ezel will become the first Turkish drama …

BURBANK: ABC Family has added to the slate of originals that will premiere under its new Freeform rebranding in 2016 with a straight-to-series order for Dead of Summer, a horror series set at a summer camp in the late '80s. …