Kristin Brzoznowski

Apple has given a straight-to-series order for Echo 3, a new action thriller written by Academy Award-winning producer and writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) that is based on the Keshet Broadcasting series When Heroes Fly.

AMC Studios and Movistar+ are working together on a new original series from Academy Award winner Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, The Sea Inside), who will make his TV directorial debut.

STUDIOCANAL, along with CPB Films (Savages, A Prophet) and Leyland Films (Murder in Provence), are working together to develop an English-language drama series about Josephine Baker.

A raft of early deals has been secured by all3media international for the new true-crime drama Des, starring David Tennant.

Lookout Point has teamed up with Netflix on its adaptation of Vikram Seth’s best-selling novel A Suitable Boy, which will be airing later this month on BBC One.

Jonathan Hughes, sales manager at all3media international, spoke to Kristin Brzoznowski, executive editor of World Screen, via video conference about The Brokenwood Mysteries, with added insight from the series' creator and writer, Tim Balme.

Mediaset in Italy has commissioned the coming-of-age romance thriller Luce Dei Tuoi Occhi (My Ballerina), which Banijay Studios Italy is producing.

Amazon Studios has ordered a third season of its action series Hanna.

Harlan Coben's best-selling novel Gone for Good is being adapted for Netflix as a French original.

HBO Max has given a series commitment to an original DC drama set in the Gotham City police department from The Batman filmmaker Matt Reeves and Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter.