LONDON SCREENINGS: German broadcasters and platforms are buying British in a big way, as new platforms emerge and competition hots up.

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has made a trio of appointments to its content management team.

Nico Hofmann is stepping down as chairman of Fremantle-owned German prodco UFA at the end of February and has joined forces with industry veteran Jan Mojto and Beta Film to produce German and European series and films for the international market.

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 posted better than expected financial results for its fourth quarter, and is tentatively predicting a more positive year ahead after a dire 2023.

Fremantle-owned German production group UFA is shaking up its management under recently hired CEO Sascha Schwingel.

Katja Hahn, who has been at German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media for the past 12 years, has joined Munich-based SEO Entertainment as an executive producer.

Germany's Wiedemann & Berg Film, part of Leonine Studios, has added Netflix's former director of series in DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Steffi Ackermann, to its management team.

Regional German pubcaster WDR is seeking to widen its drama slate with a new generation of boundary-pushing scripted projects with international partners in the battle for younger viewers.

NEWS BRIEF: Dystopian drama series Arcadia, a German-Belgian-Dutch coproduction from broadcasters VRT, KRO-NCRV, WDR and SWR, has been renewed for a second season.

German distributor Beta Film is to shop medical drama Krank Berlin internationally after the project was resurrected by local broadcaster ZDFneo.