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Asacha Media Group (AMG) has purchased a majority stake in the U.K. drama production company Red Planet Pictures, which has a slate that features Death in Paradise and Sanditon.

The crime drama Death in Paradise has been recommissioned for two more seasons by BBC One.

Red Planet Pictures has bolstered its 2021 slate with TV rights acquisitions for Megan Hunter’s The Harpy and Antony Johnston’s The Exphoria Code.

ITV has commissioned the thriller Our House, based upon the best-selling novel from Louise Candlish of the same name.

Genevieve Barr has won Red Planet Pictures and ITV’s bi-annual writing competition, Red Planet Prize, for her script Curio.

Red Planet Pictures and ITV are set to hold the next phase of their biannual writing competition as digital masterclasses this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The joint managing director talks about the company’s development process, working with up-and-coming talent and the complexities of financing productions.

The BBC One drama Death in Paradise has been ordered for two more seasons following its successful eighth run.

Red Planet Pictures and ITV Drama have selected Devin Doyle as this year’s winner of the Red Planet Prize for his family drama Devoted Wife and Mother.

Jane Austen's unfinished final novel, Sanditon, is being developed into a series by Andrew Davies and Red Planet Pictures for ITV and PBS Masterpiece.