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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired global distribution rights to the upcoming supernatural-psychological thriller series The Box, starring Anna Friel, from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak and Nordic Entertainment Group. The deal excludes the Nordics, Baltics and Poland, where The Box will premiere on NENT Group's streaming…

EXCLUSIVE: Adi Hasak, creator of NBC series Shades Of Blue and USA Network thriller Eyewitness, is teaming up with Nordic Entertainment Group on supernatural anthology series The Box, which will star Emmy-winner Anna Friel (Marcella). The English-language series was green-lit off Hasak's series bible. Plot details are…

EXCLUSIVE: Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak has lined up his next European TV project – an adaptation of Peter James' psychological thriller Perfect People for Scandinavian streamer Viaplay with German producer Leonine. The event series is based on James' book, which was published in 2011, and is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak has a new series. Margeaux, an international drama about the Munich Olympic massacre, hails from Scandinavian SVOD service Viaplay and Leaving Neverland distributor Kew Media. The drama is told from the point of view of an Israeli Mossad psychologist as well as the…

Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak is teaming with Red Arrow Studios International and Universal Television to develop a U.S. version of popular German series The Last Cop (Der Letzte Bulle), under his Adi TV Studios banner. Hasak will write the pilot script and serve as executive producer and showrunner. Dean Parisot…

Shades of Blue and Eyewitness creator Adi Hasak is teaming with Dynamic Television (SyFy’s Van Helsing, Wynona Earp) for a U.S. version of German series Tempel. The project is being developed as a straight-to-series drama under Hasak’s Adi TV Studios banner. Hasak has written a pilot script and an extensive series…

Atrium TV, the so-called drama “commissioning club" founded by former Sony Chairman Howard Stringer and DRG Chairman Jeremy Fox in April, has set a slate of new projects including Quasimodo from Game Of Thrones producer Frank Doelger and with Charles Dance and Peter Dinklage attached to exec produce. Atrium TV sources…

Shades Of Blue creator and Eyewitness guru Adi Hasak told a Mipcom audience in Cannes today that he’s working on an adaptation of Black Widows, based on the Nordic noir format and which he calls "Desperate Housewives on acid." The rare bird in Hollywood who’s gone from being a writer with no TV credits — and still no…

Adi Hasak has the rare distinction of going from a writer with no TV credits and no agency representation to back-to-back straight-to-series orders for dramas Shades Of Blue at NBC and Eyewitness, which is set to debut on USA this Sunday, October 16. The latter, a crime thriller adapted from the Norwegian drama Øyevitn…

USA Network has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to Eyewitness, an adaptation of the Norwegian crime thriller Øyevitne. The project comes from Shades Of Blue creator Adi Hasak, who wrote it and will serve as executive producer/showrunner. The original series’ creator Jarl Emsell Larsen also will executive…

Adi Hasak wrote Shades Of Blue on spec about four years ago while he was making a living writing scripts for B action movies because he said he wanted to prove to himself that “I can do better than that.” To write the TV drama, which deals with corruption in the police force, Hasak drew on his seven-year experience as…