World Screen

TORONTO: The Dennis Quaid-fronted drama series The Art of More is set to make its Canadian premiere exclusively on streaming service shomi on November 20. shomi will debut all ten episodes of the series, which is Crackle’s first original scripted …

BURBANK: ABC has slated a February premiere for Madoff, a two-part television event starring Richard Dreyfuss as convicted conman Bernie Madoff. The four-hour scripted special is inspired by ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross’s reporting from his book The …

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 …