HiddenLight Productions, the UK- and US-based prodco started by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton with Sam Branson, has hired former Avalon executive Lydia Arding as head of production.

RTL Deutschland’s streaming service TVNow has commissioned a period drama set in 1920s Berlin from Babylon Berlin producers X Filme and Beta Film.

SCHEDULE WATCH PROFILE: Australian pay TV platform Foxtel is eyeing pre-buys and coproductions for Fox Docos, its first premium documentary channel.

Warner Bros Television Group has renewed its overall deal with US showrunner and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who has also launched a new production shingle called Rock My Soul Productions.

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Streaming giant Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a drama series called Three Pines from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures.

New UK-based film and TV producer iGeneration Studios has acquired transatlantic prodco Komixx Entertainment Group.

Long-serving former ViacomCBS exec Julie McNamara has resurfaced at music and podcast streaming service Spotify as its head of US studios and video.

BBC Studios and London-based indie Big Deal Films have partnered to develop a series based on Humza Arshad’s Little Badman kids’ books.

Franco-German cultural broadcaster Arte has unveiled its forthcoming slate, including a feminist drama starring Diane Kruger and Call My Agent breakout star Camille Cottin.

Factual SVoD service Curiosity Stream has acquired a minority stake in Nebula in a deal that values the creator-owned streaming and technology platform at over US$50m.

Sky Studios, Hamburg- and Berlin-based Amusement Park Film and CBS Studios in the US have partnered on a six-part thriller set 50 years after the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team at Munich in 1972.

Fox Entertainment-owned AVoD service Tubi has agreed a content deal with BBC Studios that will bring over 400 hours of programming to the US platform.

National Indigenous Television, a division of SBS in Australia, has acquired British children’s series The World According to Grandpa for its new kids’ AVoD platform NITV Jarjums.

US- and UK-based factual prodco Nutopia has brought former National Geographic executive Geoff Daniels on board as executive VP of unscripted entertainment.

US studio NBCUniversal has signed a multi-year overall deal with Get Out director Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions label, covering TV development and production.

SERIES MANIA: Africa and the Middle East will soon become as important to distributors as North America and Europe, according to Lionsgate's senior VP of international TV coproductions and acquisitions.