Kristin Brzoznowski

The action drama Paper Empire, starring Robert Davi and Denise Richards, is to film a third season of ten episodes in AlUla.

Producer Patrick Daly and his Caledonia Productions (August: Osage County, UNA) production house have signed a first-look deal with Fremantle’s Passenger.

OGM UNIVERSE has signed deals with broadcasters in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Israel and Bangladesh for the Turkish drama Miracle of Love.

ZDF Studios has licensed the Irish thriller Clean Sweep, starring Charlene McKenna (Bloodlands, Peaky Blinders, Vienna Blood), to the U.K.’s BBC Four and BBC iPlayer as well as SBS TV in Australia.

The BBC has commissioned What It Feels Like for a Girl, a Y2K spin on a coming-of-age drama inspired by the memoir of the same name by writer and journalist Paris Lees.

Distributors discuss the continued interest in Turkish series across Central and Eastern Europe.

The world-building drama Silo, based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times best-selling trilogy of dystopian novels, has been renewed for a second season by Apple TV+.

Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Ipcress File) is set to star in the new four-part drama Ruth, about the life of Ruth Ellis, commissioned by ITV.

BBC Studios India has produced the new romance drama Highway Love, which will premiere on Amazon miniTV for free within the Amazon shopping app and on Fire TV.

Jude Liknaitzky, chief creative officer and executive producer at Drama Republic, has been elevated to co-CEO alongside Roanna Benn.