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CANNES: Power is co-producing a brand-new lavish period drama, New Worlds, along with Company Pictures for Channel 4 in the U.K. The four-hour mini-series is set in the 1680s in England and America, and charts a story of love, loss and the fight for the freedoms and liberties enjoyed today. …

CANNES: The star of the Filmax International slate is the series The Red Band Society. Following the show’s successful broadcast of season two on the public Catalan network TV3 and later on Spain’s national network Antena 3, Filmax is heading to Cannes to close up the remaining territories that have …

CANNES, October 1: ORF-Enterprise is introducing the series Janus, which Marion Camus-Oberdorfer, the company’s head of content sales, says is “half captivating detective series, half pharmaceutical thriller, with an excellent cast and a mysterious story behind it.” Camus-Oberdorfer calls the series Yummy: Cooking with Kids the “perfect international program for …

PARIS: Though it now appears that air traffic controllers in a number of European countries will be striking on October 10, the last day of MIPCOM, it remains unclear whether this will actually disrupt any of the scheduled flights in France. French law, however, guarantees that at least 50 percent …

LONDON: Cassian Harrison has been appointed as the channel editor of BBC Four, responsible for the day-to-day management of the service. Harrison has been working as a channel exec for BBC Two and Four in recent months, with a focus to increase collaboration between the two services across programming, scheduling, …

PARIS: Bruno Zarka, a former sales manager at Panini Media, and Frederic Pittoors D'Haveskercke, formerly with the Canal Plus Group, have joined forces to create The Bridge People/Les Gens Du Pont, a production house dedicated to TV series, notably dramas. The Bridge People aims to develop international co-productions for drama …

CANNES: Red Arrow International has been building up its drama slate, which features Johan Falk, The Escape Artist and Lilyhammer. Steven Van Zandt is back in the second season of Lilyhammer, following a successful first season. The Escape Artist sees David Tennant, known for his roles in Doctor Who and …

CANNES: ATV will be presenting buyers with Tatar Ramazan, the story of a man who seeks justice. At last year’s MIPCOM, ATV set its sights on penetrating Southeast Asia, Northeastern Europe and Latin America. The company managed to achieve these goals, says Ziyad Varol, ATV’s head of sales, and has …

CANNES: This MIPCOM marks DRG’s first outing since the MTG Studios acquisition, “so it will be an important time for us to reinforce the fact that we are still an independent distributor,” says Jeremy Fox, the company’s CEO. DRG is presenting buyers with UKTV’s The Roux Scholarship, which follows a …

GÜTERSLOH: Bertelsmann has sold a further 1.3 percent of its stake in the RTL Group for 151.6 million euros ($205 million). The media conglomerate sold 2 million ordinary shares of RTL Group at an offer price of 75.81 euros per share. The offer comprised the shares of an over-allotment option, …