NEWS & FEATURES

• Red Arrow brings The Weekly to Cannes
  The distribution arm of Germany-based production group Red Arrow is heading to MipTV next month with a slate of new formats, dramas and factual titles, including landmark New York Times series The Weekly.
• FX wants more Better Things
  NEWS BRIEF: US cablenet FX has renewed its comedy series Better Things, produced by and starring Pamelo Adlon, for a fourth season, produced by FX Productions.
• Proust work set for TV adaptation
  SERIES MANIA: French producers Cinéfrance Studios, Federation Entertainment and Don’t Be Shy are adapting Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time for television.
• Henson preschool content goes global
  Spain’s TV3 and Irish net TG4 are among the international broadcasters to have picked up preschool content from The Jim Henson Company in the US.
• Spyglass zooms in on Whitney for TV push
  Gary Barber has brought a former Miramax and Legendary Entertainment executive into his revived production shingle Spyglass Media as president of television.
• ZED slates high-end history for Mipdoc
  French producer and distributor ZED will launch two premium documentary series at Mipdoc next month.
• Propagate rejigs sales after Electus buy-out
  US producer and distributor Propagate is heading to MipTV in Cannes next month with a new slate of unscripted content and an expanded international distribution team.
• Orange takes on Unpunished
  SERIES MANIA: The coproduction arm of French telco Orange is backing an eight-part AI-focused drama from French firms APC Studios and Make It Happen Studio and Denmark’s Sweet Chili Entertainment.
• MGM stocks drama, formats for MipTV
  US-based MGM Worldwide Television Distribution is bringing a Ben Kingsley-starring noir drama and its series based on classic film Four Weddings & a Funeral to MipTV.
• Matter of Flack
  Flack star Anna Paquin plus creator Oliver Lansley and exec producer Jimmy Mulville discuss the long journey to bring the series to the screen.
• Power struggle
  Richard Gere returns to TV for the first time in 30 years to star with Helen McCrory in BBC drama MotherFatherSon, screening today at Series Mania.
• Holding out for Hierro
  The Canary Island of El Hierro lends its name to Spanish crime drama Hierro, a ‘southern noir’ story of the hunt for a killer that screens today at Series Mania in Lille. Exec producer Alfonso Blanco reveals all.
• Netflix's Buñuel speaks out on global rights
  SERIES MANIA: Netflix's documentary chief has defended the streamer's global rights policy as it unveiled more projects out of its fledgling French operation.
• Ex-Facebook exec Edwards joins TBS, TNT
  A former factual development executive at Facebook Watch has been appointed VP of unscripted series and specials at US cablenets TBS and TNT.
• Good Karma seeks Country Queen partners
  SERIES MANIA: German producer Good Karma Fiction is seeking international funding and distribution for a drama about a Kenyan woman who must return to her childhood village to save it.
• DRG marchs Expectation's Brigade to Cannes
  UK-based distributor DRG has unveiled its slate of dramas, factual shows and formats ahead of MipTV, including a culinary format from Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ prodco Expectation.
• Mondo forecasts MeteoHeroes for MipTV
  European producer and distributor Mondo TV is preparing to launch an animated eco-adventure show for children at MipTV next month in Cannes.
• Italy's Showlab adds Tortuga duo
  Italy-based producer and distributor Showlab has picked up a pair of 2D animated children's show from Brazilian outfit Tortuga Studios.
• Fremantle alum sets up Finnish formats outfit
  Former Fremantle and Zodiak exec Anssi Rimpelä is setting up a new formats production company based in Finland.
• BBCS's MotherFatherSon goes global
  Networks and OTT services around the world have picked up MotherFatherSon, the drama produced for the UK's BBC starring Richard Gere.

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