Kristin Brzoznowski

ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has unveiled its spring drama slate, led by Mammoth Screen’s World on Fire.

Diederick Santer is stepping down from his role as CEO at Kudos after four years at the helm, with Karen Wilson and Martin Haines stepping into the posts of joint managing directors.

Fremantle is working with Neil Gaiman on a reimagined version of Jim Henson’s ’80s anthology series The Storyteller for television.

Cameron Roach has been appointed as Sky’s director of drama and Sky Studios, and has revealed two new original commissions, Little Birds for Sky Atlantic and Intergalactic for Sky One.

Stan & Ollie producer Fable Pictures has secured the TV rights to tell the definitive story of the British sisters Dame Joan and Jackie Collins.

NBC is strengthening its scripted leadership team with the promotions of Deepak Jesrani and Mike Nunes and the hire of Lisa Roos.

A fourth season of the Brazilian adaptation of In Treatment (Sessão de Terapia) is to launch on Globoplay and GNT this spring.

BBC Studios has picked up a minority stake in the new scripted start-up Firebird Pictures, founded by producers and former BBC execs Elizabeth Kilgarriff and Craig Holleworth.

Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios is planning to adapt Polite Society, based on the forthcoming novel by Mahesh Rao (The Smoke Is Rising), for television.

Nippon TV has secured the broadcast rights for the South Korean drama Mother, a remake of its own hit series, to air in Japan.