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The Good Mothers, Disney+’s hard-hitting mafia drama series, has won the first ever Berlinale Series Award. Forged in co-operation with Deadline, the award is the first of its kind for TV at a major film festival. Revealed as winner at the Berlin Zoo Palast in the past few minutes, the Italian…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Waleed Zuaiter, who currently co-stars in Netflix’s The Spy and stars in the upcoming Hulu series Baghdad Central, has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for management. Zuaiter received an Academy Award nomination in 2014 for producing Omar, in which he also starred. The actor most…

Hulu has boarded British drama Baghdad Central. The SVOD service will air in the U.S. in 2020 after striking a deal with Fremantle for the Channel 4 series. Produced by Hard Sun producer Euston Films, the series is based on the novel by Elliott Colla and is written by The Last Kingdom scribe Stephen Butchard. It is…

UPDATED WITH CAST… Altered Carbon's Waleed Zuaiter, Homeland's July Namir, Condor's Leem Lubany, Doctor Foster’s Bertie Carvel and House of Cards' Corey Stoll star in C4 drama Baghdad Central. EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who and Lore director Alice Troughton has been set as lead director of Channel 4's crime thriller Baghdad Cen…

Channel 4 has commissioned Baghdad Central, a new six-part crime thriller written by The Last Kingdom scribe Stephen Butchard. Story, which is based on the novel by Elliott Colla, is set in 2003 Baghdad after Saddam Hussein has fallen and the city lies at the center of the coalition's efforts to secure the region. In…