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Sky Studios has purchased a minority stake in the U.K.-based drama producer The Lighthouse, founded by BBC Studios alums Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts.

Netflix is prepping a modern adaptation of Mats Wahl's acclaimed novel Vinterviken, with The Bridge producer Filmlance International on board.

Entertainment One (eOne) has licensed the new procedural drama Diggstown, starring Vinessa Antoine (General Hospital, Being Erica), to BET+.

MISTCO has signed an agreement with Azam Media Limited to bring Resurrection Ertugrul to the platform’s customers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Endemol Shine India has acquired the rights for Lioness: The Last Queen, the forthcoming new novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

Hilary Bevan Jones, founder and managing director of scripted producer Endor Productions, has agreed to a multiyear extension of her contract.

Goalpost Pictures has optioned the award-winning Detective Emmanuel Cooper book series by the Australian-South African writer Mulla Nunn.

Eccho Rights has sealed the first international deal for the Turkish series Sisterhood, which has landed a slot on Mediaset in Italy.

Tod Productions and STV Productions have optioned The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics, a new true-crime book written by journalist and author Jeremy Craddock.

The writer and creator talks about the four-part drama that made a splash with its U.K. run on Channel 4 earlier this year and has now arrived Stateside on Acorn TV.