Kristin Brzoznowski

CBS has given a straight-to-series order for Blood & Treasure, a serialized action-adventure drama for broadcast in summer 2019, while CBS All Access has lined up the original psychological thriller Tell Me a Story.

Kanal D International has lined up new deals for the drama Tales of Innocence (Meryem) in four countries.

Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo) will be adapting Charles Dickens' classic novels for BBC One, starting with A Christmas Carol.

Spain's Telefónica has picked up the first two seasons of the thriller Below the Surface and the Danish drama Ride Upon the Storm from STUDIOCANAL.

Drama producer Playground, which is currently working on the new miniseries adaptation of Little Women for BBC and Masterpiece, has tapped Dan Leon for the newly created role of head of business affairs and director of operations.

Netflix has lined up the coming-of-age dramedy Sex Education for its slate of originals to launch globally in 2019.

Among the members of The Restaurant's ensemble cast are Charlie Gustafsson and Hedda Rehnberg, who met with World Screen Newsflash to discuss the period-set family saga and the process of filming two seasons back-to-back.

All six episodes of the original drama The Last Post, which comes from BAFTA Award winner Peter Moffat (The Night Of), are slated for release on Amazon's Prime Video in the U.S. on December 22.

FremantleMedia has entered into a development deal with international drama specialist 87 Films.

Eleventh Hour Films has teamed up with Sony Pictures Television, International Production for Rendlesham, inspired by a real-life UFO incident that took place at a U.S. air base close to the village of Rendlesham, Suffolk, in 1980.