Sir David Suchet spent 25 years playing Agatha Christie’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot. Now he has followed in the author’s footsteps by touring around the world for a five-part travelogue series, Travels with Agatha with Sir David Suchet.

Ahead of the fourth season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries, star, writer and exec producer Sally Lindsay considers the revival of cosy crime drama and the formula behind the show’s success.

The Mediapro Studio will distribute a crime thriller described as 'Breaking Bad meets The Bear in Iceland,' commissioned by Icelandic streamer Siminn and coproduced by Arte in France and Germany, Erik Barmack's Wild Sheep Content and Iceland's SKOT Productions.

CONTENT LONDON: Forthcoming historical drama King & Conqueror, which dramatises the lead up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, “has built in international appeal” despite its legendary place in British history, delegates here have heard.

B-Reel Films, the Stockholm-based producer behind Midsommar and recent launch The Pirate Bay, has picked up TV and film rights to Andrev Walden’s novel Jävla Karlar.

Portuguese pubcaster RTP and Caracol Studios are partnering to bring João Tordo’s psychological thriller Past Waters to television.

MIPCOM: Germany’s Beta Film and Brazil’s Globo are developing crime drama Discipline (working title), a project that marks the start of a new multi-year partnership between the two companies.

Paris-based producer and distributor Oble has partnered with Yes Studios and Donna & Shula Productions to develop a six-part dramedy for Israeli broadcaster YesTV.

Broadcasters in Belgium, Spain and Portugal have acquired La Peste (The Plague), a modern adaptation of Albert Camus’ seminal novel of the same name, following sales by French distributor Oble.

Canal+, AMC Networks International and Hot in Israel are among the networks to have picked up Keshet International’s new global action thriller Conflict.