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Fremantle has signed a three-year first-look and development deal with Astral Projection, the production company from Academy Award-winning actor Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, Disobedience, The Favourite) and executive producer Polly Stokes (American Honey, Wild Rose, The Nest).

International Literary Properties (ILP) has acquired the Mary Wesley estate and will manage the rights to her body of work.

Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, The Darkest Hour, Atonement) is on board to direct the new political espionage thriller The Department, based on the French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, for Paramount+.

Emily Beecham (1899, Little Joe) and Clémence Poésy (In Bruges, The Tunnel) have joined the cast of King & Conqueror, alongside previously revealed stars James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

Prime Video has ordered a second season of the Italian series The Bad Guy from Indigo Film, in collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios, Fifth Season and Rai Cinema.

The Midsomer Murders Mayhem podcast is set to launch, marking All3Media International's first move into podcast commissioning and production.

The Australian drama series Prosper is set to make its Canadian debut on Super Channel Fuse on March 24.

The Sony Pictures Television-backed production company Eleven has opened applications for the fourth year of its Duly Noted script editor training scheme.

Diagonal, part of Banijay Iberia, and Atresmedia TV have teamed for a scripted series adaptation of Olympic gymnast Gervasio Deferr’s autobiographical book El Gran Salto.

The romantic drama Daylight (Luz de día) is set to bow on Kanal D Drama in the U.S.