Kristin Brzoznowski

CBS has renewed Blue Bloods for the 2019-20 television season, with Tom Selleck inking a new deal to return for the show's tenth year on the network.

BBC Studios has appointed Kate Oates, currently senior executive producer, as head of continuing drama.

ZDF Enterprises has picked up the worldwide distribution rights for the British drama series Queens of Mystery, representing the show outside of the English-speaking territories handled by Acorn Media International.

Creator Cristian Conti, stars Juan Pablo Raba and Cristina Umaña, and ZDF Enterprises’ Robert Franke discuss the action-packed series Wild District.

Inter Medya has clinched two new deals on the Turkish drama Bitter Lands, produced by TIMS&B Productions.

STUDIOCANAL has sold a package of French Canal+ Creation Originale productions to Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), which will deliver the dramas on its Viaplay service.

SPI International/FilmBox has launched Timeless Drama Channel (TDC) with ten operators, making the Turkish drama channel available in more than 1 million homes.

Eccho Rights has presold Honour to RTL Germany, which will broadcast the drama on its new video streaming service TVNOW.

British writer Chris Murray, recently behind the reboot of the U.K. detective series Van Der Valk, has come on board as co-creator for Cannes Confidential, a new blue-sky procedural.

Keshet International (KI) has acquired the free-TV, pay-TV and internet broadcasting rights to three of NTV’s top-rated drama series, while Dori Media Group picked up rights to the Russian crime thriller Shepherd.