Kristin Brzoznowski

FremantleMedia International has aligned with the German public broadcaster ZDF for the pre-apocalyptic crime drama Hard Sun.

At MIPCOM, Kanal D is launching to the international market Mehmet the Conqueror, a brand-new, big-budget Turkish drama.

A+E Networks will be introducing the new A+E Studios drama Blue Book at MIPCOM and has landed a number of additional sales for such scripted series as SIX, Knightfall and Roots.

Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Cinderella, Electric Dreams) and Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty, The Durrells, The Missing) will lead the cast of Bodyguard, a new drama for BBC One.

Netflix has ordered the sci-fi family drama Raising Dion, based on a short film about an African-American single mother who discovers her young son has multiple, constantly changing abilities.

Anthony Hopkins (The Dresser, Nixon, Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (The Children Act, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility) lead an all-star cast in the upcoming production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, which is being produced for BBC Two and Amazon Prime Video.

Freeform has picked up two additional seasons of The Bold Type, with each consisting of ten one-hour episodes.

Starz has ordered six half-hour episodes of the scripted drama Sweetbitter straight to series.

Drama specialist Kudos, which is behind shows such as Broadchurch, Humans, Apple Tree Yard and Tin Star, is to launch a Manchester-based sister company, Kudos North.

Gaumont has firmed up a deal with StyleHaul and Verizon’s go90 to distribute the millennial social media drama series Relationship Status, starring and executive produced by Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us, Gilmore Girls, Heroes).