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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…

ITV is making a major push into the natural history genre – an area that has long been dominated by rival BBC and more recently Netflix and Apple. The broadcaster recently commissioned Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions to produce landmark series A Year On Planet Earth (w/t) – its first major wildlife…

How do you adapt Malorie Blackman's young adult novel series Noughts + Crosses for the screen? The answer, it seems, is to bring together a group that includes the BBC, Victoria producer Mammoth Screen, Green Book producer Participant Media, Jay Z's Roc Nation, distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment and rapper…

When the creators reflect on the early success of Brassic, a frenetic British comedy that lit up the schedules of Sky, their minds turn to the man who started it all: actor Dominic West. David Livingstone, the founder of Brassic producer Calamity Films, was making British indie film Pride when West approached him with…

Gomorrah producer Cattleya is making a TV drama about Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome, in archaic Latin for Sky Italia. The ITV-owned producer is producing Romulus, created by Matteo Rovere, who directed The First King feature. It marks Rovere's television debut. The ten-part series is co-produced by…

TBS' Snowpiercer is heading to China after ITV Studios Global Entertainment struck a deal with Huanxi Media Group. Huanxi Media Group is to broadcast the first two series of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series exclusively in China after WarnerMedia handed the series a second season. This comes as it moved from TNT to…

Rob Lowe is enjoying being a fish out of water in British cop drama Wild Bill, which is leading ITV Studios Global Entertainment's scripted lineup at next week's Mip TV. The West Wing star plays high-flying U.S. cop, Bill Hixon, who is appointed Chief Constable of the East Lincolnshire Police Force in the UK. The…

The U.S. remained the largest export market for British TV content with sales of £335M ($441M) across the 2016/17 year, according to a new report. Total revenues from UK TV programming sales were estimated at £902m, according to the TV Exports report, published by British trade association Pact. The U.S. was…

Scandinavian terror thriller Greyzone is heading to the UK after Walter Presents acquired the ten-part series from distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment. The Channel 4-backed foreign-language drama service will air the Cosmo Film-produced series later this year. The show, set in Copenhagen, Stockholm and…

PBS executive Mike Kelley is joining ITV Studios Global Entertainment to bolster its U.S. sales team. Kelley, who was previously SVP, Programming, Business Affairs and Content Operations at the U.S. public broadcaster has been appointed SVP, Sales, Americas and will be based at ITVSGE's LA operation. Kelly was…

The major British distributors and Hollywood studios are preparing for an onslaught of international TV buyers with hundreds descending on London and Liverpool, hopefully with their wellington boots at the ready, to snap up the latest scripted gems. Later this week, around 700 buyers are expected to hit the UK for…

Shudder, the premium streaming service backed by AMC Networks, has acquired the Scandi-noir drama Jordskott from ITV Studios Global Entertainment. The first two episodes of Season 1 will launch April 6, with two new episodes premiering each week thereafter. The 10-episode first season focuses on the seven-year…