China's Huanxi Premium has acquired BBC drama World On Fire as ITV Studios Global Entertainment unveils a raft of sales at Mipcom. The Chinese platform is one of a number of sales for the Helen Hunt-fronted drama, which will air on PBS Masterpiece in the U.S. The Mammoth Screen drama has also been picked up by RTL in…

I Wanna Marry Harry producer Zig Zag has teamed with South African producer Hipster Media to develop a documentary about Nelson Mandela. The British production company is working up a series based on the audio recordings for Nelson Mandela's best-selling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. The project to record his…

The borscht has really hit the fan for Rudy Giuliani with the widening scrutiny of the Trump administration’s alleged political dirt-digging excavations in Ukraine. Trump critics have been trying to make a figurative federal case out of the whole affair but now (after the arrest and indictment of two Giuliani cronies)…

The Property Brothers latest foray into DIY has gone global after distributor Cineflix Rights closed a raft of international broadcast deals. Property Brothers: Forever Home, which airs on HGTV in the U.S. and Canada, has been shopped to broadcasters including Discovery across Asia, Benelux, Latin America, New…

Alibaba Group's Youku has come on board to co-produce kids' series Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Chinese platform has partnered with Genius Brands to produce the 52-part series, which launched at MipJunior. Genius Brands is currently in talks with U.S. partners. Created by Stan…

Bear Grylls has teamed with European production group Banijay to launch a new production company. Grylls, star of Netflix's You Vs Wild and Running Wild With Bear Grylls, which aired on NBC before moving to Nat Geo, is launching The Natural Studios with his Bear Grylls Venture partner Delbert Shoopman and Banijay…

Beta Film, the German producer and distributor of TV and film, has formed Sweden-based Beta Nordic Studios (BNS), which will act as an umbrella group for the company's production activities in Scandinavia. The move comes in the wake of Beta taking a majority stake in Finnish film and TV production outfit Fisher King…

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major plot details about the Season 2 finale of HBO’s Succession. In the season 2 finale of Succession, which aired tonight on HBO, corrupt media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) spent day and night on his Mediterranean yacht, considering who would take the fall for his many…

A violent video recently shown at a Trump resort shows a gunman resembling President Trump hunting down the president’s critics and members of the media. The video was shown last week at a three-day conference of the president’s supporters at the Trump National Doral Miami, the New York Times reported Sunday…

Kenan Thompson, who is in his 17th season as a performer on Saturday Night Live, covered a wide range of show lore in a 90-minute appearance Sunday at the New Yorker Festival. The firing of debut cast member Shane Gillis in September before his first episode and after racist jokes and comments surfaced online…