Kristin Brzoznowski

BEIJING: The Chinese streaming platform iQIYI is working with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) to adapt the U.S. drama Chosen as a three-part series in the Mandarin language.

LONDON: Oliver Kent has been appointed to the newly created post of head of continuing drama series for BBC Studios Scripted.

LONDON: The Swedish-French drama Midnight Sun has clinched a U.K. slot and is now set to debut on Sky Atlantic in early 2017.

TEL AVIV: Amazon Prime Video will be the exclusive premium subscription streaming home for The A Word in the U.S., following a pact with Keshet International (KI).

LONDON: Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe and Africa has commissioned its first scripted drama for the region, with the espionage thriller The Nine (working title).

STOCKHOLM: The Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4’s SVOD service C More has made a two-season commitment to a spy thriller series based on Swedish author Jan Guillou’s best-selling Hamilton books.

VANCOUVER: Thunderbird is working with David Salzman to develop a TV series based on the New York Times best-selling Decker-Lazarus mystery novels from author Faye Kellerman.

DUBAI: The catalog of 4K content available on STARZ Play across the MENA region now includes the original series Power and The Girlfriend Experience.

STOCKHOLM/MUNICH: MTG Studios and Red Arrow International have partnered to co-finance and co-produce the new drama series Embassy Down.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Studios, Germany's Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and France's TF1 have aligned for a new procedural drama series, Gone, based on Chelsea Cain’s novel One Kick.