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The North Road Company has set its first international co-studio deal with Sipur for Bad Boy, the latest series from Ron Leshem (Euphoria) and Hagar Ben-Asher (Bosch, City on a Hill).

Ilkkas’ Creative Studio (ICS) has formed a pact with WSOY, Finland’s largest publishing group, to develop Finnish scripted content for international audiences.

Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions’ jury has selected the Ukrainian-Polish thriller Unspoken as its 2023 winner.

Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse, Trial of the Chicago Seven, The Theory of Everything) has been cast in the lead role of Sky and Peacock’s series adaptation of The Day of the Jackal.

Skydance Television has secured an exclusive first-look deal with author James Patterson to develop a slate of shows based on a selection of his top-selling book series.

Saffron Cherry Productions (The Madame Blanc Mysteries) has secured the rights to develop Julia Chapman’s The Dales Detective book series for television.

ZDF Studios has brought to Series Mania Natalie Scharf’s Dear Vivi, the most-viewed series on ZDFmediathek to date.

Eccho Rights has licensed the Turkish drama series Golden Boy to broadcasters in Sweden and Finland.

Buccaneer (Marcella, Irvine Welsh’s Crime) has picked up the adaptation rights to C.J. Tudor’s thriller novel The Chalk Man, with Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge, Marcella) signed on as screenwriter.

Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier, the founders of Upgrade Productions, talk about the growing global demand for local-language productions.