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Showtime has signed the Emmy- and WGA-nominated executive producers and writers Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson to an overall deal.

Jacob Batalon on his starring turn in Reginald the Vampire, serving as co-executive producer of the show and what he learned from his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Topic and Israel’s yes Studios have signed their first-ever deal, which gives the streamer the exclusive U.S. and Canadian streaming rights for Embezzlement.

Disney+’s new Chinese-language original drama series Women in Taipei is set to launch on the streamer on September 21.

Yellow Bird UK, part of Banijay UK, has made three new appointments to its development team, including tapping Sally Rowberry as development producer.

Paramount+ is set to launch the new young adult drama series School Spirits, starring Peyton List (Cobra Kai, Bunk’d).

Netflix has ordered to series the period soap drama The Decameron from creator/showrunner Kathleen Jordan and executive producer Jenji Kohan (Orange Is the New Black, Glow).

The new Sky original drama This England, depicting Boris Johnson’s first months as prime minister of the U.K. and the first wave of the pandemic, has sold to 88 territories around the world.

Showtime and the BBC have commissioned The Woman in the Wall, a six-part gothic thriller starring Ruth Wilson (Luther) and Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders).

Embracer Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of The Saul Zaentz Company that owns, among other IPs, the rights related to The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.