Kristin Brzoznowski

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has sold 150 hours from its drama catalog, including the event series Ku'damm 56: Rebel with a Cause, to MHz Networks for the U.S.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL has licensed the sci-fi thriller Section Zéro to the Rialto Channel in New Zealand.

LONDON: Sky is working with best-selling author Harlan Coben on a new crime event series, The Four.

LOS ANGELES: Netflix and CBS Studios International have inked a landmark international licensing agreement for the new Star Trek series, which has also been acquired by Bell Media in Canada.

LONDON: Man In An Orange Shirt, a two-parter produced by Kudos for BBC One, marks the first original TV drama from best-selling British novelist Patrick Gale.

MUNICH: Beta Film has picked up the rights for the Nazi-refugee drama Light of Elna, directed by Sílvia Quer (Velvet, Grand Hotel).

LOS ANGELES: Roddenberry Entertainment's sci-fi/speculative fiction project Holoscape has been optioned by Storyoscopic Films.

LONDON: The prison drama Wentworth has been commissioned by Belgian commercial broadcaster Vier (Flanders) for a local Flemish-language adaptation.

LOS ANGELES: Endemol Shine Studios has inked an exclusive, multiyear deal with Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram’s Ritchie/Wigram Productions.

LONDON: Big Light Productions, which is behind such dramas as The Man in the High Castle, has brought in Jamie Hall to serve as COO.