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BBC Studios has established a paid training program that will offer up-and-coming writers the opportunity to gain the skills needed to pen drama series for TV.

Directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak (G.O.R.A., Vizontele) and boasting a star-studded cast is Lost Scent, a new drama series Kanal D International is bringing to MIPTV.

Netflix has renewed The Umbrella Academy for a second season, with cast members Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin Min set to reprise their roles.

The lineup from Viacom18/IndiaCast Media Distribution includes the historical costume drama Jhansi Ki Rani, which tells the story of a commoner who evolves into the bravest, fiercest warrior queen.

The next original series from Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is the drama Box 21, which is based on the best-selling crime novel by Swedish writers Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström.

BBC Studios is developing a new drama series in association with Seven Seas Films that will recount the events of the last six months of Marilyn Monroe’s life.

A pair of costume dramas lead the raft of titles One Life Studios is set to showcase at the market.

BBC Two has acquired The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book about the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s.

A+E Networks has secured further sales for its scripted UFO series Project Blue Book and season two of the Knights Templar drama Knightfall.

Among MISTCO’s MIPTV offerings this year is the romantic drama Hold My Hand, which charts the love story between Azra, a beautiful and well-educated young girl who lost her father, and Cenk, a spoiled boy.