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Yellow Bird UK, part of Banijay UK, and Hot Coals Productions have signed a deal to develop and co-produce an adaptation of Nell Pattison’s series of books—The Silent House, Silent Night and The Silent Suspect.

Netflix has ordered the action-adventure limited series American Primeval, with Pete Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor) directing and Taylor Kitsch (The Terminal List, Waco) starring.

Playground (All Creatures Great & Small, The Undeclared War) has optioned Alex Marwood’s international bestseller The Wicked Girls for development as a limited series.

Producers and directors of some of the titles in the running for best drama at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAAs) Gala Final in Singapore weighed in on the storytelling process and scripted trends at a panel today moderated by World Screen’s Mansha Daswani.

Viddsee Studios is adapting the Korean short film Human Form into a series called Alienated for launch on Mediacorp's platforms in Singapore next year.

Sky Studios has made two new appointments to its drama team as it looks to increase the investment and scale of Sky original dramas.

Independent studio wiip has optioned the rights to develop a TV adaptation of The Lemon, the culinary-inspired debut novel from S.E. Boyd, a pseudonym created by authors Alessandra Lusardi, Kevin Alexander and Joe Keohane.

GoQuest Media has signed a deal for the Ukrainian drama Ruby Ring in Ecuador.

Fremantle has acquired the independent production company Passenger, behind the Sky drama This England, which now becomes a fully-owned label.

Tomorrow Studios has optioned CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective, the Japanese crime drama format from Envision Entertainment and Nippon TV, for a U.S. adaptation.