Kristin Brzoznowski

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.

Dynamic Television and Adi Hasak (Shades of Blue, Eyewitness) are teaming up for a U.S. version of the German series Tempel.

ITV has commissioned the Corfu-set drama The Durrells for a fourth season.

Showtime has ordered the drama series City on a Hill, starring Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground).

BBC Studios and Crackle have struck a deal to bring the new season of Doctor Who to the Sony Pictures Television Networks SVOD platform in Latin America.

Red Arrow Studios International has picked up the distribution rights for the new drama series Death and Nightingales, based on Eugene McCabe’s modern Irish classic novel.

EPIX has given a straight-to-series greenlight for the DC origin story Pennyworth, which comes from executive producer/writer Bruno Heller (Gotham, The Mentalist) and executive producer/director Danny Cannon (Gotham, CSI series).

Escapade Media has licensed the short-form comedic drama 600 Bottles of Wine to BBC Three for a launch in the U.K.