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Global Screen has sold three dramas to the U.K.’s Walter Presents in partnership with Channel 4, including the premium series Hostage.

Three new Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials are scheduled to debut on Disney+ globally, except in the U.K. and Ireland, where they will air on the BBC.

Top Turkish talent from two of Global Agency’s high-end dramas attended MIPCOM to tout the global appeal of the new titles.

Global Screen has secured a second season of the South African mystery drama Recipes for Love and Murder and inked a deal with NHK Enterprises for the series to premiere in Japan.

Beta Film and WDR have inked a deal for titles totaling 250 hours from the Crime Scene (Tatort) franchise to come to the U.S. and Canada via MHz Choice.

Ay Yapım's Light in the Dark, based on Mediaset's scripted format On the Brink, is set to bow on Kanal D.

Kate Herron, executive producer and director on Loki and Sex Education, and Briony Redman, actor, comedian and writer, have co-written an episode of the upcoming season of Doctor Who.

Channel 5 has greenlit the new four-part thriller The Cuckoo (w.t.) from Clapperboard.

Banijay UK has invested in Esmerelda, the new scripted production venture from actor, comedian and writer Sir Lenny Henry.

Between escalating production costs and the squeeze on budgets at broadcasters and streamers, getting greenlights has become ultra-arduous, but the activity at MIPCOM showed that executives in the business are looking for blue skies in the disruption.