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Ava DuVernay (Selma) is working on a scripted limited series for Netflix about the historic case of The Central Park Five.

BAFTA winner Jack Thorne (National Treasure) is back with a new drama for Channel 4: Kiri (working title).

Filming has begun on a new three-part German-Italian family history feature for ZDF under the working title Bella Germania.

Channel 4 in the U.K. has ordered the new six-part crime thriller Baghdad Central, which is being produced by Euston Films.

LNK Lithuania has picked up the Star India drama Strange Love (Iss Pyaar Ko kya Naam Doon), which will launch in the country on July 10.

The Australian producer Kate Dennis, who has been working in the U.S., is on board to direct Hoodlum Entertainment’s new crime drama Harrow.

CJ E&M’s new romantic fantasy series The Bride of Habaek, also known as The Bride of Water God, has been licensed into more than 20 countries across North and South America and the Asia Pacific.

Sony Pictures Television Networks has ordered a new detective procedural, Carter, starring Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier, for its global channels, including AXN.

Mammoth Screen is producing a new seven-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair for ITV in association with Amazon Studios.

FremantleMedia International (FMI) has promoted Rebecca Dundon to director of scripted acquisitions as it looks to expand its roster of third-party relationships with writers and producers in the U.K., EMEA and Asia Pacific.