Kristin Brzoznowski

IM Global Television has optioned the rights to Katie Williams’ upcoming science-fiction novel The Happiness Machine, which will be adapted for the small screen by Patrick Tobin.

Fortitude co-stars Richard Dormer and Dennis Quaid met with World Screen Newsflash to talk about the experience of shooting in such a remote location and what that fed back into their performances.

Eccho Rights has licensed the hit drama series Insider, from Ay Yapim, into a slew of new markets, including the Middle East.

Netflix has ordered its first Turkish original series, which will be a hero-driven action story that features Ottoman and Turkish legend and history.

Mayane Films and Federation Entertainment are co-producing AIDS, a drama that charts the emergence of the disease.

FremantleMedia International (FMI) has inked a deal with the German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland for the medical drama The Heart Guy.

Music executive and Murder Inc. founder Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo has developed a scripted anthology series of "song stories" for BET Networks.

Hulu and Lionsgate have inked a deal for the subscription streaming rights to the Starz original drama Power.

HISTORY is going straight to series with the original scripted drama Blue Book from A+E Studios, with Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Contact) attached as executive producer.

John Simm (State of Play, Exile, Prey) and Adrian Lester (Hustle, Undercover, London Spy) have been cast as leads in the new three-part thriller Trauma for ITV.