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When you're deep in among the cocktail parties and dinners or meeting up with much missed contacts at Mipcom next week, it might be easy to forget why everyone is there: the shows. To help you remember, we bring you Deadline's The Hot Ones, our guide to some of the best TV being sold in Cannes in 2022…

EXCLUSIVE: German TV dramas are continuing to sell internationally ahead of Mipcom Cannes. Beta has shopped MipDrama’s Buyers' Coup de Couer Award Award winner House of Promises and thriller The Wall to several buyers, as the Munich-based distributor prepares a line-up of 25 dramas for Mipcom later…

EXCLUSIVE: Beta's hit detective series Babylon Berlin, set against the backdrop of the final years of the c, returns this autumn for its fourth season with the drama entering Germany's dark 1930s. Ahead of its highly anticipated launch in Germany on SKY on October 8, as well as on HBO for the CEE and Sky UK, Deadline…

Austria's ORF Joins Big Budget Central Europe Drama Series 'Rise Of The Raven' The shoot for big-budget Central European drama Rise of the Raven (working title) is underway near Budapest in Hungary, with Austrian pubcaster ORF the latest to join the series as a co-producer. Produced by Robert Lantos (Sunshine, Johnny M…

EXCLUSIVE: A sister company to The Incal Universe owner Humanoids named Sparkling is pushing into European drama, with Patrick Nebout at the helm, Deadline can reveal.  Cannes Confidential and Midnight Sun producer and European co-production specialist Nebout is exiting Beta-owned producer Dramacorp to lead the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first trailer for Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary) comedy-drama How To Please A Woman, which Beta is selling at the virtual AFM. In the Australian indie pic, Phillips plays a woman in middle age who feels she has become "invisible to everyone." The film follows her as she sets up a house…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's some welcome news for fans of hit mafia crime series Gomorrah: producers of the small-screen drama are lining up an origins story feature film based on cult character Ciro Di Marzio, aka 'l'Immortale'. Marco D'Amore, who plays Di Marzio in the series, will star in and direct the Cattleya-produced…

Beta Cinema has picked up sales rights to Sundance and Berlin entry Sand Storm by Israeli director Elite Zexer. The film is produced by 2-Team Productions, who won the Venice Public Choice award with The Farewell Party. Sand Storm, shot in Arabic, takes place in a Bedouin village in southern Israel. Jalila finds…