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A FAST channel featuring an array of Japanese period dramas is now available in the U.S. on Prime Video.

Bad Wolf is adapting Metropolis from Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir book series for Apple TV+.

Channel 4 has lined up a new love story drama starring Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu, produced by The Forge Entertainment, a Banijay UK company (National Treasure, The Buccaneers, Marriage).

MGM+ has ordered the anthology series American Hostage (w.t.) from co-creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, S.W.A.T.) and co-creator and executive producer Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs).

From Adorable Media, The Trial, a new one-off drama special set in a world in which parents are held legally responsible for the crimes of their children, is headed to 5 in the U.K.

Netflix has given the go-ahead to two new book adaptations, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, and ordered a fifth season of Sweet Magnolias.

Former Disney executive David Levine is leading the expansion of Israeli streamer IZZY's content slate, with the platform adding daily dramas and a slate of series for teens.

Calinos Entertainment has sold Pixcom’s police-driven drama Alert Squad into Japan.

Apple TV+ has unveiled Prodigies, a new romantic comedy from SISTER starring Will Sharpe and Ayo Edebiri.

Globalgate Entertainment is partnering with U.K.-based indie Ascendant Fox and a consortium of production and distribution entities to create an English-language adaptation of the hit Japanese manga Reset Game.