Kristin Brzoznowski

SPI International/FilmBox is launching Timeless Drama Channel (TDC), a new worldwide TV network devoted to Turkish drama series and movies.

DRG has secured a number of new presales for Synchronicity Films' four-part series The Cry, led by Victoria and former Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman and Ewen Leslie from Top of the Lake: China Girl.

Banijay Rights has taken on global distribution for The Gulf, a brand-new international drama co-production.

TM International has sold the event series The Name of the Rose to multiple territories, including the U.K., where the BBC has come on board.

Inter Medya has sold the Turkish drama The Pit to Albavision.

A number of presales have been secured by all3media international for the new season of the murder-mystery drama Agatha Raisin, including to ABC in Australia.

Germany’s ZDF has come on board as co-producer for the crime series The Sommerdahl Murders, alongside Dynamic Television, Sequoia and ndF.

ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has scored a slew of presales for The War of the Worlds, which has now been sold in over 80 territories.

The drama “commissioning club” Atrium TV has unveiled its latest slate, which includes the six-part Cyrano, based on Edmond Rostand’s classic play Cyrano de Bergerac, with Joseph Fiennes attached to star and executive produce.

Banijay Rights has taken on distribution for the epic historical drama We, The Drowned, which comes from Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director and cinematographer Mikael Salomon (Band of Brothers, The Abyss).