Jamie Stalcup

Natalia Beristáin, showrunner, director and executive producer of Apple TV+’s Midnight Family, speaks with World Screen Newsflash about taking inspiration from the documentary of the same name and producing the series with an entirely Hispanic cast and crew.

BBC One and BBC Cymru Wales have co-commissioned The Guest, written, created and executive produced by Matthew Barry (Men Up, Industry), from Quay Street Productions.

Prime Video has ordered two seasons of Scarpetta, an adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s book series of the same name, with Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies, Expats) and Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear, Everything Everywhere All at Once) attached to star.

CBC Gem has acquired two new international series, including the British drama Joan, to host their exclusive Canadian premieres.

Through their first-look deal, Tomorrow Studios (One Piece, Snowpiercer) and Story Syndicate have partnered to develop a law enforcement drama for Max.

Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) is set to star as murderer Ed Gein in the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology for Netflix.

STV Player has acquired the rights from All3Media International to stream all 117 episodes of the Irish police soap Red Rock in the U.K.

Netflix has slated the premiere of the limited series Bank Under Siege (Asalto al Banco Central) for November 8.

Lucy Barzun Donnelly (Grey Gardens, Friends with Kids) has joined South of the River Pictures, the independent scripted production company founded by Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite), Ed Sinclair (Landscapers) and Tom Carver, as producer.

Production has begun on Maigret, a contemporary TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novels about the Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, for PBS’s Masterpiece.