Jamie Stalcup

BBC has commissioned the real-time thriller Nightsleeper from Fremantle’s Euston Films for BBC One and iPlayer.

Bon Voyage Films has begun production on Hello, a new German mystery thriller series for Netflix that is set to star Peri Baumeister, Yuna Bennett and Florian David Fitz.

Apple TV+ has revealed Firebug, a new Apple original drama from creator Dennis Lehane that will star and be executive produced by Taron Egerton.

Lionsgate Television Group has signed a multiyear overall deal for high-end premium scripted series with Emmy-winning writer and producer Dahvi Waller and her new Federal Engineering banner.

Yellow Bird UK, part of Banijay UK, and Hot Coals Productions have signed a deal to develop and co-produce an adaptation of Nell Pattison’s series of books—The Silent House, Silent Night and The Silent Suspect.

Netflix has ordered the action-adventure limited series American Primeval, with Pete Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor) directing and Taylor Kitsch (The Terminal List, Waco) starring.

Playground (All Creatures Great & Small, The Undeclared War) has optioned Alex Marwood’s international bestseller The Wicked Girls for development as a limited series.

Sky Studios has made two new appointments to its drama team as it looks to increase the investment and scale of Sky original dramas.

Independent studio wiip has optioned the rights to develop a TV adaptation of The Lemon, the culinary-inspired debut novel from S.E. Boyd, a pseudonym created by authors Alessandra Lusardi, Kevin Alexander and Joe Keohane.

GMA Network’s prime-time series First Lady, a sequel to The First Nanny, is slated to premiere on Netflix Philippines on December 9.