Hello, Jake Kanter here, and welcome to the latest edition of International Insider. This week, we ponder Mipcom’s slim pickings and examine the problems of production in a pandemic. Scroll on for news and analysis. A Quiet Cannes Modest Mip: And so, we have reached the end of perhaps the strangest Mipcom market…

WarnerMedia Pulls Plug On South Asia Channels WarnerMedia has announced that it plans to close its linear HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bangladesh from December 15. Siddharth Jain, SVP and managing director of WarnerMedia's entertainment network in South Asia, said: "After 20 years of…

Sony Pictures Television plans to create a U.S. television series based on Lux Vide’s Italian drama Doc – Nelle Tue Mani as part of a deal that also hands it the rights to sell the original show internationally. The Doctor House-meets-The Good Doctor series stars Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) as Andrea Fanti, a…

Warner Bros' Swedish drama Partisan has been named best series at the 2020 Canneseries, the screenings festival that has run alongside the virtual Mipcom. Featuring Chernobyl and Westworld star Fares Fares, Partisan was made for Nordic Entertainment Group's streaming service Viaplay. Fares features as Johnny, a man…

It's day three of virtual Mipcom. Deadline will keep this page updated with some of the day’s most notable deals, so hit refresh for updates. HBO Max Snaps Up Studiocanal’s ‘Possessions’ WarnerMedia streamer HBO Max has swooped for psychological thriller Possessions from Studiocanal. Produced by Haut et Court TV, the…

WarnerMedia streamer HBO Max has taken the rights to Channel 4’s sex worker series Adult Material in a deal with Banijay Rights. Produced by Banijay production outfit Fifty Fathoms, the series stars Hayley Squires (Collateral) as British pornstar Jolene Dollar who is juggling her on-screen sex work with the reality of…

It’s day two of virtual Mipcom. Deadline will keep this page updated with some of the day's most notable deals, so hit refresh for updates. While you're here, two things worth reading from the Cannes market yesterday: the producers of buzzy BBC/Amazon drama The Pursuit Of Love revealed their vision for the period…

EXCLUSIVE: STXtv has sold docu-drama series Rise of Empires: Ottoman to Youku for China, Viasat World for Central & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltics, Russia and CIS, and SIC for Portugal. The six-hour English-language production, narrated by Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), tells the story of Mehmed II, who at 21…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has struck a deal for world rights to Valley Of Tears, Israel's biggest-budget TV series ever made, in a major deal for London-based sales and production org WestEnd Films. The show marks WestEnd's first foray into TV, through its banner WeSeries. It is producing and co-financing the project, which…

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has voiced shock that a censorship debate has sprung up around the controversial Cuties film after a Texas grand jury indicted the streamer over the feature. In comments at the virtual Mipcom market on Monday, Sarandos said Cuties was misunderstood in America after the indictment claimed it…

Italian firm Indiana Production, German outfit SquareOne Productions and French company SND (Groupe M6) have revealed details about their Italian-language mafia series L’Ora (Ink Against Bullets). The 10-part returning mafia origin series is inspired by the real-life investigative endeavors of the Sicilian newspaper…

Netflix’s coronavirus safety protocols may prohibit Ted Sarandos from visiting sets, but the streamer’s co-CEO is looking on the bright side after revealing that the guidelines are actually saving money and cutting shoot times on some productions. Speaking at the virtual Mipcom, where he was accepting the Variety…