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A year after Legendary brought in Chris Albrecht to launch Legendary Global, the former Starz CEO is taking over the company’s entire TV operation. Legendary is consolidating its international (Legendary Global) and domestic TV businesses under Albrecht, who has been named Head of Legendary Television. Nick Pepper…

EXCLUSIVE: In yet another sign of India’s growing appeal for the world’s content financiers, Chris Albrecht and Legendary’s TV venture Legendary Global is teaming with Library Pictures International to co-finance and produce two seasons of a Hindi-language series from Vikramaditya Motwane, creator of Netflix’s first…

Legendary Global, former HBO and Starz chief Chris Albrecht’s international TV venture with Legendary, has partnered with Spanish outfit ESPotlight to develop and produce more than 10 premium scripted shows a year. Their first project together is La Treintena, a six-part comedy-drama about four twentysomething women…

EXCLUSIVE: Rome and Generation Kill executive producer Anne Thomopoulos is reuniting with her former HBO boss Chris Albrecht at Legendary Global. Thomopoulos has joined the joint venture between Legendary and Albrecht as a partner, and comes from CAA's Global Television department. She has been tasked with focusing on…

EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials and The Eddy writer Jack Thorne has teamed up with Legendary Global on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Thorne will write and exec produce a "relevant" retelling of the book, which was first published in 1859, for the studio, which was established…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Albrecht has teamed with Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter and Pose executive producer Sherry Marsh for Tokyo Underworld, a crime drama set in Japan. It marks one of the first projects for Legendary Global, the television venture between Legendary and Albrecht launched in December, which is…