Joel Marino

SÃO PAULO: The Globo telenovela Trail of Lies has landed in France, where it’s slated to debut on broadcaster France Ô.

MIAMI: W Studios, the newly created joint venture between Univision Communications Inc. and producer Patricio Wills, has slated the prime-time series The Pilot (La Piloto) as its first production.

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has signed an agreement with producer Underground Producciones and Argentine network TV Pública to distribute the weekly crime drama The Marginal (El Marginal).

SÃO PAULO: Mediaset España has signed on as co-producer of Globo’s first original production for the international market, the drama thriller Supermax.

LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has optioned the rights to adapt the non-fiction book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution into a multipart event series.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Naim Media Group (NMG) is launching a production house specializing in scripted series based on real events.

MIAMI: The Turkish drama Mercy is slated to make its U.S. debut tonight on Pasiones, a telenovela channel aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences.

LONDON: BAFTA-nominated writer Jack Thorne has been tapped to adapt Philip Pullman’s hit His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy for BBC.

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has given the go-ahead to a sixth season of its supernatural drama Grimm.

CANNES: Telefe has clinched sales for its new thriller The Return of Lucas in Chile and Ecuador ahead of the series’ premiere.