CONTENT LONDON: Beta Fiction Spain, the new division of Germany’s Beta focused on film and television fiction, has unveiled its first TV project, a series about the life of Queen Sofía of Spain.

NEWS BRIEF: The latest format to emerge from John de Mol’s Talpa in the Netherlands, which challenges celebrities to walk across a high wire stretched over spectacular locations, has been picked up in Lithuania.

NEWS BRIEF: Multichannel broadcaster UKTV has acquired the fifth series of Canadian police procedural Hudson & Rex to air on its crime network Alibi in the UK and Ireland.

NEWS BRIEF: Kosovan broadcaster Klan Kosova has commissioned a local adaptation of classic reality format Big Brother, to be coproduced with local prodco Artmotion.

Today we hear from Michele Wolkoff, creative director of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl producer The Ink Factory, and Jeff Norton, head of new Corus Entertainment scripted outfit Waterside Studios, live from Content London 2022.

CONTENT LONDON: The founders of Sony-backed UK prodco Bad Wolf say their new ITV commission The Winter King is not intended to compete with fantasy shows like House of the Dragon and will in fact be closer to Peaky Blinders.

CONTENT LONDON: UK commercial broadcaster ITV has greenlit a trio of paper formats for Saturday nights, but admitted it is difficult to take risks on what is traditionally the channel’s biggest night.

CONTENT LONDON: German public broadcaster ZDF has found itself at a crossroads, with established shows continuing to perform well in its schedule but young audiences deserting its linear broadcast.

CONTENT LONDON: TV2 format manager Marianne Bjorn is seeking new pitches from entertainment producers, having satisfied the Danish network’s need for reality shows with recent commissions.

CONTENT LONDON: Fabrizio Battocchio, head of formats and factual entertainment at Italian commercial broadcaster RTI, has revealed the economic crisis is making him more cautious in his commissioning strategy but he is still in the market for a new shiny-floor gameshow for peaktime.