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Miramax TV is bolstering its executive ranks with the addition of David R. Shraga as SVP and Head of Business & Legal Affairs for the studio's Global Television operations. Shraga will report to Head of Global TV Marc Helwig, and is responsible for all domestic and international co-production…

Mediawan and Miramax TV have closed a deal to develop and produce together high-end scripted programming, including series and straight-to-platform feature films, for the international marketplace. As Deadline reported in November, the companies already are developing a series based on Miramax’s…

Daisy Ridley (Star Wars) will star in and EP the series adaptation of Nina de Gramont's best-selling novel, The Christie Affair. Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls, Death Comes to Pemberley) will adapt the script. Miramax TV is set to develop and produce the murder mystery. In 1926, when her…

Johnny Depp hit Chocolat is to return as a French-language TV series from Miramax TV and Mediawan. The five-time-Academy Award-nominated film’s TV adaptation will be shot in French and set in a small town in modern-day France, with Mediawan-owned Atlantique Productions producing with Miramax. The…

EXCLUSIVE: A high-profile TV series project from Miramax Television based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 non-fiction book The Gangs of New York is about to hit the premium/streaming marketplace. Oscar winner Martin Scorsese, who directed the 2002 feature adaptation of the book, is attached to executive produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax is bolstering its team with the hire of three executives who all come to the independent studio from Netflix. Mirsada Abdool Raman has been named VP of Television Development. In her new role, she will oversee all aspects of development across Miramax TV’s slate, reporting to Head of Global TV Marc…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has given a formal series green light to The Turkish Detective, an adaptation of Barbara Nadel’s CWA Silver Dagger Award-winning novels featuring Detective Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman. Haluk Biligner (Baba), Ethan Kai and Yasemin Kay Allen (The Usual Suspects) have been tapped to…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax TV has optioned the rights to Nina de Gramont's upcoming novel The Christie Affair, a reimagining of Agatha Christie's 11-day disappearance, to develop and produce as a limited series. British writer Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls) is set to pen the adaptation. In 1926, when her husband's affair…

Robert Altman’s 1994 fashion industry satire Prêt-à-Porter is getting a TV series adaptation. Paramount+ is developing a series based on the feature comedy-drama, sources said. It comes from Miramax Television. Co-written, directed and produced by Altman, the Miramax-distributed film, released in the U.S. as Ready to W…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a small screen adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient. The British public broadcaster is in the early stages of development of the drama project, which comes from Run and Taboo writer Emily Ballou. It is a co-production between Miramax Television and Paramount…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax Television and Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell’s Stone Village are teaming to develop a series adaptation of Alex Michaelides’ upcoming novel The Maidens. British writer-actor Morwenna Banks (Damned) is attached to pen the adaptation. In the book, which Celadon Books will publish on June 15, when…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax TV has teamed with Dominic Treadwell-Collins’s Happy Prince on a series adaptation of Jim Cartwright's award-winning play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which inspired the 1998 Miramax film Little Voice. Cartwright is writing the TV series adaptation, which is part of Miramax's strategy of…