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Eleventh Hour Films has optioned Chris Atkins’ prison diaries A Bit of a Stretch for TV adaptation.

Showtime has given a series order to the hour-long drama First Ladies, starring and executive produced by Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis, who will play former first lady Michelle Obama.

A Romanian court has ruled that Antena 1 must cease all broadcasts of its drama Fructul Oprit, which Turkish screenwriters Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu allege was an unauthorized copy of their series Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love).

New Regency Television International has secured the television rights to BBC Sounds’ hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen.

A new stand-alone season of the BBC One drama The Syndicate is in the works from the BAFTA award-winning writer Kay Mellor (Band of Gold, Fat Friends, In the Club and Girlfriends).

Chris Pratt is attached to star in and executive produce The Terminal List, a new series based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, with Antoine Fuqua to direct and executive produce.

Pantomimus Media has lined up a trio of new deals for its multimedia YA fantasy brand The Red Harlequin, including a TV development partnership with Canada's Omnifilm Entertainment.

The Swedish production company Filmlance is working on the miniseries Tsunami, a three-part drama that follows the intense days just after a tsunami, to air on SVT.

Yi Qiao has joined ZDF Enterprises as director of ZDFE.drama for the acquisition of new projects and sales of drama programs in English-speaking territories worldwide and in Scandinavia.

Eccho Rights has inked a deal in Bulgaria with bTV for three seasons of the Romanian drama series Vlad.