Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES/MUNICH/MIAMI: TANDEM Productions is developing a Miami-set, music-driven ensemble drama series in partnership with Callie Khouri and T Bone Burnett.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has acquired the television rights to science writer Holly Cave’s forthcoming novel The Architecture of Heaven.

LONDON: The upcoming six-part drama Press will premiere in the U.S. on PBS Masterpiece, which has come on board as a co-producer through a deal signed by BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point.

LONDON: Viasat World has licensed the rights for the new Ridley Scott drama Taboo, which stars Tom Hardy.

PASADENA: SundanceTV has entered into a co-production partnership with BBC One for the new drama series The Split.

TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) has lined up additional broadcasters for the BBC One drama The A Word, which is heading into production soon for a second season.

LONDON: Sky Vision has taken on the international distribution rights for the new crime drama series Bad Blood.

LOS ANGELES: Chris Noth (The Good Wife, Sex and the City) has joined the cast of Discovery Channel's scripted series Manifesto, which will tell the story of how the FBI brought down Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide, Access Entertainment and Lookout Point have aligned for a new initiative to fast-track production of premium-quality scripted drama.

LOS ANGELES: Joel and Ethan Coen are working with Annapurna Television on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology series.