World Screen

PASADENA: Continuing to bulk up its scripted series, HISTORY has slated two new dramas: Knightfall, produced in partnership with Jeremy Renner, and the military-themed SIX, from A+E Studios and The Weinstein Company. Knightfall, which has been ordered for ten episodes …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has secured presales for the detective series Maigret with the French public television channel France 3, German public broadcaster ARD, Swedish broadcaster TV4 and Denmark’s DR. The deals mark BBC Worldwide’s first international sales for the 2×2-hour …

PASADENA: Starz has announced three new drama projects with Latino themes, including an original series co-produced with Televisa USA. Titled Maleficio, the supernatural thriller will be based on a popular Mexican novela from the ’80s. It will center on Don …

NEW YORK: AMC has given the go-ahead to a third season of its drama series Halt and Catch Fire. Additionally, co-creators and writers Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers have been upped to showrunners. The new ten-episode run is set to …

LOS ANGELES: CBS has given a 13-episode, straight-to-series order for the brand-new drama series American Gothic from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios. The hour-long murder mystery will be broadcast during summer 2016, alongside Zoo, BrainDead and Big …

LONDON/MUNICH: The crime series The Last Panthers, which made its world premiere last week during MIPCOM, has been acquired by HBO Nordic. The 6×1-hour series was commissioned by Sky Atlantic and CANAL+. SundanceTV is on board as the exclusive U.S. …

TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) Television and Shaw Media have revealed that production has kicked off on The Code, a tentatively titled Global original drama series starring Jason Priestley. The Code follows an ex-professional hockey player who becomes a crime-solving P.I. The …

TV Drama Weekly recaps the deals that made headlines in the business of drama last week. There was perhaps one overarching trend for the slew of drama news that came out of MIPCOM last week: the business is more international …

LONDON: David Ogilvy has been tapped to head up the new scripted drama division at Beyond International. Ogilvy joins Beyond from Australia's ABC Television, where he was commissioning editor of fiction since 2012. He has also worked as a writer …

LONDON: Sky 1 in the U.K. is slated to begin airing the new superhero drama series Supergirl, from exec producer Greg Berlanti, later this month. Supergirl is made by Berlanti Productions (The Flash, Arrow) in association with Warner Bros. Television. …