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Drama producer Playground, which is currently working on the new miniseries adaptation of Little Women for BBC and Masterpiece, has tapped Dan Leon for the newly created role of head of business affairs and director of operations.

Netflix has lined up the coming-of-age dramedy Sex Education for its slate of originals to launch globally in 2019.

Among the members of The Restaurant's ensemble cast are Charlie Gustafsson and Hedda Rehnberg, who met with World Screen Newsflash to discuss the period-set family saga and the process of filming two seasons back-to-back.

All six episodes of the original drama The Last Post, which comes from BAFTA Award winner Peter Moffat (The Night Of), are slated for release on Amazon's Prime Video in the U.S. on December 22.

FremantleMedia has entered into a development deal with international drama specialist 87 Films.

Sky Vision has picked up the distribution rights to The Flatey Enigma, a crime drama from Iceland's Sagafilm and Reykjavik Films.

WE tv has picked up ten seasons of the crime procedural Criminal Minds.

Kudos has acquired the television rights to Through the Fire, an upcoming memoir from Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, the deputy assistant commissioner for the London Fire Brigade.

Series Mania, now in its ninth year, has been scheduled to run April 27 to May 5, 2018, with the European Project and Talent Forum (formerly Co-Production Forum) now accepting submissions.

After receiving $180 million in funding, The Ink Factory (The Night Manager) is expanding its London office with the appointment of Tracey Josephs, who comes on board from Film4, and six new executives to its development, commercial and marketing teams.