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Mipcom organizer Reed Midem has provided an insight on the work it is doing to make sure the annual TV market can go ahead safely in October, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the world. Laurine Garaude, the director of Reed Midem’s television division, said her team is “extremely motivated” to…

HBO Max is set to stream The West Wing when the service launches next year. Bob Greenblatt, Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-to-Consumer, revealed that the Martin Sheen-fronted political drama will be the latest high-profile series to move to the streaming service. It currently airs on Netflix in the…

Channel 4 in the UK has acquired U.S. series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Star Trek: Discovery and Man With A Plan in deals with Lionsgate and CBS Studios International. The deal for Star Trek: Discovery is a first linear window deal after the drama launched globally on Netflix, while Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist…

Station 19 writer and co-exec producer Ilene Rosenzweig is developing a series based on Mary Higgins Clark's U.S. crime novel I'll Be Seeing You. The writer, who also worked on Girlfriend's Guide To Divorce, has teamed up with Reel One Entertainment, Element 8 Entertainment and Paris-based La Sabotière to develop an…

Patrick Dempsey is in Cannes to promote his latest project. However, this time he's repping an Italian drama rather than a U.S. network series. Dempsey, known to a legion of Grey’s Anatomy fans as McDreamy, is in France to promote Devils, a financial thriller for Sky Italia. The series, which is produced by Lux Vide…

Netflix is exploring what it takes to become one of the world's leading surgeons in a four-part series from BBC Studios. It marks the production arm of the British public broadcaster's first commission from the SVOD service. The untitled science documentary series will be produced by BBC Studios Science Unit. Each…

Amazon has urged producers to bring it more international non-scripted formats on the back of unveiling The Bachelor in Japan and Hunted in Italy. International content chiefs James Farrell and Georgia Brown opened up about what the SVOD service is looking for outside of the U.S. at a Deadline-moderated keynote at Mipc…

Tubi TV, the ad-supported, on-demand video service, will launch in the UK in 2020 and is set to roll out a specific kids' library service. This comes after the service recenty rolled out in Australia as part of its first leg of planned global expansion. Ad-supported streaming, once a marginal sector, has gained…

James Norton and Sophie Cookson have lifted the lid on their roles in BBC drama The Trial of Christine Keeler – saying that it turns up the volume on Keeler's role in the Profumo scandal in light off the #metoo movement. The stars were joined on a Deadline-moderated panel at Mipcom by writer Amanda Coe and The Crown's…

The Property Brothers latest foray into DIY has gone global after distributor Cineflix Rights closed a raft of international broadcast deals. Property Brothers: Forever Home, which airs on HGTV in the U.S. and Canada, has been shopped to broadcasters including Discovery across Asia, Benelux, Latin America, New…

Bear Grylls has teamed with European production group Banijay to launch a new production company. Grylls, star of Netflix's You Vs Wild and Running Wild With Bear Grylls, which aired on NBC before moving to Nat Geo, is launching The Natural Studios with his Bear Grylls Venture partner Delbert Shoopman and Banijay…

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…