Kristin Brzoznowski

Take Two Studios, Sagafilm and Story House Pictures have teamed up to adapt the best-selling Finnish novel Hildur as a thriller and character-driven relationship drama for television.

Eccho Rights has shored up new broadcast deals on the Turkish drama series Legacy and Redemption, produced by Karamel Yapım for Kanal 7.

Eight public-service broadcasters from northwestern Europe—ZDF (Germany), NPO (the Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), Yle (Finland), RÚV (Iceland) and NRK (Norway)—have come together to form New8, a collaboration that will see the pubcasters sharing drama series.

Netflix has revealed that the sixth and final season of The Crown will be airing in two parts, debuting November 16 and December 14.

Red Arrow Studios International, Ireland’s Deadpan Pictures and France’s Thalie Images have aligned for the new spy thriller The Continental Method.

Zara Hayes (The Killing Kind, Showtrial) has joined Eleventh Hour Films as an in-house writer and executive producer.

Cineflix Rights’ Tom Misselbrook, senior VP of scripted sales and development, shares details about The Doll Factory, adapted for television from the best-selling novel by Elizabeth Macneal.

Eccho Rights is again partnering with the Turkish producers Sürec Film, taking out its drama Grapes of Love to the global market.

ITV has commissioned the thriller Protection, starring Siobhan Finneran, Nadine Marshall and Katherine Kelly.

MIPCOM is hosting a premiere for Alice & Jack, the new drama series created and written by Victor Levin (Mad Men, Mad About You) and starring Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Birdman) and Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn, The Revenant).