Kristin Brzoznowski

ITV has ordered the crime and courtroom drama Saviour, produced by Nisha Parti’s Parti Productions and written by first-time screenwriter Imran Mahmood, who is a criminal barrister.

UKTV has appointed Emma Tibbetts as its new director of programming for drama.

Fremantle Australia has optioned the rights to works from Australian novelist Paul Jennings for TV development.

The dark comedy thriller Sweetpea, starring Ella Purnell, will return for a second season on Sky and STARZ.

All nine seasons of Suits are available in Hindi for the first time in India via JioCinema.

Channel 5 has greenlit the thriller The Rumour, based on the Sunday Times best-selling book by Lesley Kara.

The espionage thriller The Agency has been renewed for a second season following its record-setting debut as the most-streamed new series in Showtime history.

Universal Television has pre-empted the rights to Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’s Climbing in Heels, which the author will adapt for TV alongside Emmy Award-winning creator Darren Star.

New Pictures, an All3Media company, has secured the rights to Geoff Dembicki’s The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change.

Richard Rankin, star of Rebus, a new adaptation of Sir Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels, talks to World Screen Newsflash about embodying such a well-known character and working with the creative team behind the show.