Kristin Brzoznowski

AMC Networks’ Sundance Now streaming service has picked up the U.S. rights to the Australian drama series Upright from Entertainment One (eOne).

Actress Chulpan Khamatova tells World Screen Newsflash about taking on the lead role in Russia Television and Radio’s Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, based on a best-selling novel and sold worldwide by Sovtelexport.

The first season of Gold Diggers (a.k.a. Russian Affairs), a crime drama set among Moscow’s oligarch-led high society, has been acquired by Walter Presents in the U.K.

Elisa Viihde has commissioned a second season of the 1950s spy series Shadow Lines, which has been sold to AMC Networks’ Sundance Now for the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

John Morton, the creator and writer behind the Acorn TV Original Dead Still, talks about the darkly comedic Irish murder-mystery series set during the Victorian era of post-mortem photography.

Fremantle's Castlefield has picked up the rights to Cara Hunter’s DI Fawley crime novels for a television adaptation.

Global Agency has licensed the Turkish drama Never Let Go into Portugal with ZAP.

China's iQIYI has launched the Mist Theater, a new content library dedicated to suspense dramas, on its platform.

NHK’s 8K channel is set to premiere an 8K drama by Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Wife of a Spy, the filmmaker's first production in that format.

The CW Network has picked up the international thriller Devils, starring Alessandro Borghi and Patrick Dempsey, for its fall 2020 slate.