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Eccho Rights has placed the Ay Yapim-produced drama Brave and Beautiful in a host of new markets, including a wide-ranging deal across the Middle East and North Africa.

Piers Wenger, the controller of BBC Drama, has revealed more than 45 hours of new commissions, including an adaptation of the classic novel Little Women with Masterpiece on PBS and a London-Tokyo crime series with Netflix.

Liza Marshall’s newly launched indie Hera Pictures has landed the English-language rights for the Norwegian drama Valkyrien.

Dancing Ledge Productions is working with writer Faith Soloway (Transparent) on its debut U.S. series.

FOX Networks Group Content Distribution (FNGCD) has inked a raft of new deals from its catalog of Turkish dramas, selling more than 2,600 hours across Latin America, Central Europe, Asia and Africa.

Paramount Network has greenlit its first original scripted drama series, Yellowstone.

all3media Deutschland has entered into a new joint venture with Bon Voyage Films to develop and produce scripted drama.

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has set a co-exclusivity deal with Hulu and NBC Entertainment for the breakout hit This Is Us.

Lionsgate Television UK has acquired the rights to develop the non-fiction novel Jerusalem from historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore as an original drama.

Liam Keelan, the director of scripted at BBC Worldwide, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the partnership with AMC, the importance of having a variety of projects to showcase to buyers and trends in the scripted genre today.