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BBC Studios has optioned Eve Stranger, the comic-book series created by writer David Barnett (Punks Not Dead) and illustrated by Philip Bond (Deadline).

Banijay Rights has sold the new six-part limited series Rogue Heroes to Canal+, which will air the series in France and in all Canal+ territories around the world later this year.

Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia has commissioned a local version of BBC Studios' hit drama Doctor Foster.

Pia Laurel, sales head for new media and international co-production at ABS-CBN Corporation, on the strategic local and international partnerships that have allowed the company to create high-quality content and make its stories available to a broader and more diverse audience base.

Sky has commissioned M. Son of the Century, based on Antonio Scurati’s best-selling novel that chronicles the birth of fascism in Italy and Benito Mussolini’s rise to power.

SPI International’s drama hub Dizi has launched on Amazon Prime Video Channels in the Netherlands.

Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Seymour talks about the Acorn TV series Harry Wild, in which she plays a fearless, recently retired English literature professor who discovers a real knack for investigation.

Julia Weber, head of international sales and acquisitions at Global Screen, talks to World Screen Newsflash about show highlights such as Recipes for Love and Murder.

Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, which is majority owned by BBC Studios, has scored the option for Charles Spencer’s To Catch a King.

Bad Wolf, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Television at the end of last year, is set to produce the historical drama The Winter King.