Kristin Brzoznowski

Endemol Shine North America and Major TV have optioned the rights to the late Latin superstar Celia Cruz’s best-selling autobiography, Celia: My Life, with plans to adapt it as a scripted series.

SYFY has ordered a second season of the Superman prequel story Krypton, based on DC characters from Warner Horizon Scripted Television.

Richard Gere (Chicago, Pretty Woman) is set to star in the original eight-part drama MotherFatherSon for BBC Two.

Producers and writing partners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Lost, Once Upon a Time) have signed on as executive producers and showrunners of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories for Apple.

Tele München Group (TMG) and AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Sundance Now are partnering on the TV event The Name of the Rose.

Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Good Behavior) is adapting the New York Times best-selling biography Jackie, Janet & Lee as a scripted drama series.

Kanal D International has licensed a number of its dramas, including Wounded Love, to broadcasters in Latin America.

The Ropes, a new four-part drama for SBS in Australia, has officially started production.

FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has inked a first-look deal with Landscape Entertainment, and the initial project to come from the pact is a scripted drama centered on Michelangelo.

The Atrium TV commissioning club has presented its members with a second round of new dramas, which count among their producers Michael Douglas, David Simon and Ava DuVernay.