Jamie Stalcup

Prime Video has ordered an adaptation of E. Lockhart’s novel We Were Liars, with Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, Legacies) and Carina Adly MacKenzie (Roswell, New Mexico; The Originals) attached as writers.

Ilkkas’ Creative Studio (ICS) has formed a pact with WSOY, Finland’s largest publishing group, to develop Finnish scripted content for international audiences.

Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions’ jury has selected the Ukrainian-Polish thriller Unspoken as its 2023 winner.

Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse, Trial of the Chicago Seven, The Theory of Everything) has been cast in the lead role of Sky and Peacock’s series adaptation of The Day of the Jackal.

Saffron Cherry Productions (The Madame Blanc Mysteries) has secured the rights to develop Julia Chapman’s The Dales Detective book series for television.

ZDF Studios has brought to Series Mania Natalie Scharf’s Dear Vivi, the most-viewed series on ZDFmediathek to date.

Buccaneer (Marcella, Irvine Welsh’s Crime) has picked up the adaptation rights to C.J. Tudor’s thriller novel The Chalk Man, with Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge, Marcella) signed on as screenwriter.

Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier, the founders of Upgrade Productions, talk about the growing global demand for local-language productions.

The cast of Sky and Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz has been unveiled, with Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid) and Anna Próchniak (Baptiste) in the lead roles.

Japanese broadcaster Kansai TV’s crime drama Informa, based on a novel by Garyo Okita, has debuted in full on Netflix outside of Japan.