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EXCLUSIVE: Deutschland 83 creator Jörg Winger has landed one of the first German-language series for Disney+ international streamer Star. Through his Fremantle-backed production company, Big Window Productions, Winger will make Sam – A Saxon for the service, telling the true story of East Germany’s first Black police…

EXCLUSIVE: TV Beats Forum, the drama series-focused industry element of Estonia's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, will this year host case studies of international shows such as Netflix's Stranger Things and German historical drama Deutschland 83. Running November 23-27, 2020, in a primarily digital format, the…

Joerg Winger, the creator of hit German drama Deutschland 83, is stepping down as managing of UFA Fiction to launch a drama label that will sit within the Fremantle-backed production company. Winger has established Big Window Productions, which will focus on bringing stories from Berlin to a global audience. He will…

The 2010s was the decade that foreign-language television broke through the global ceiling and got Hollywood to notice the quality of content coming from all corners of the world. While Danish drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and French thrillers Braquo and Spiral began inching the door open in the “aughties,” hyper…

Deutschland 83 commissioner Philipp Steffens is to leave German broadcaster RTL as it merges its broadcast and streaming drama units. Steffens, who was head of fiction at the commercial broadcaster since 2014, is departing to move back into production. He will be replaced by Frauke Neeb and Hauke ​​Bartel, who will…

Germany’s Deutschland 83 was named Best Drama at the 44th International Emmy Awards gala in New York tonight, with Dustin Hoffman (Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot) and Christiane Paul (Under the Radar) taking top acting prizes. Hosted by Alan Cumming at the New York Hilton, the awards roster also included The Man Who Shot Hiros…

The first original German-language drama to broadcast on a U.S. TV network is officially coming back. SundanceTV and FremantleMedia International said today there will be a second season of Deutschland 83, the Peabody Award-wining Cold War-set series created by Anna Winger and Jörg Winger. The eight-episode Season 2…

In a first-of-its-kind deal, SundanceTV and FremantleMedia International are partnering on eight-part event series Deutschland 83. Sundance has boarded the German-language drama as co-producer. Created by Anna Winger and Joerg Winger, it will air on RTL in Germany later this year with a U.S. date to be set. With the…

Content Media has acquired international sales rights to Alex Gibney's documentary Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief. The film will have its world premiere at Sundance. Gibney wrote and directed based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright. In the film, he profiles eight former…