Jamie Stalcup

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.

A second season of the historical drama Marie Antoinette has been ordered by CANAL+, with filming set to begin this fall.

Access Entertainment has invested in the new Israeli drama Red Skies, co-created by Euphoria’s Ron Leshem.

Swiss SVOD service blue Play has picked up the KOTV women-led series Les Simone.

Singapore’s mm2 Entertainment and Taiwan’s Man Man Er have teamed to produce a TV adaptation of Teeny’s Tales of Mystery book series.

Eccho Rights has picked up the distribution rights to the new Kanal 7 drama series Endless and licensed it to several territories.