Your complete round-up of news from the London TV Screenings
LONDON TV SCREENINGS: If you’re on your way back from the screenings in London, just returned or have been keeping track of the event online, catch up with C21’s extensive news and analysis of the event using these links:
ITV Studios launches global brand partnership Studio 55
BBC Studios teases microdrama move with one-minute dramas and digital formats
Demand for US content wanes as buyers shun ‘woke’ programming, claims Keshet’s Kelly Wright
British format Virgin Island gets first international adaptation in the Netherlands
Wave of Blue Planet III sales and copro deals done on first day of BBC Showcase
Banijay’s Tobias defends AI format bringing stars back from the dead as ‘respectful’
PBS takes US rights to British dramas Trespasses and I Fought the Law
AMC Networks picks up BBC crime drama This City is Ours for streaming
CJ ENM presents The Legend of Kitchen Soldier at London TV Screenings
Fremantle music gameshow format Hitster lands in Canada, Germany and Netherlands
Headland Media, BoPaul Media launch distribution JV
Banijay unveils fitness, cycling formats at the London TV Screenings
Bell Media not seeking more queer sport drama despite Heated Rivalry fever
ITV acquires US dramas Black Sails, Nashville for streamer ITVX
BBC brings back Suranne Jones drama Doctor Foster for S3 a decade on
Banijay Entertainment to adapt hit Japanese format You Laugh You Lose
Missing person thriller Gone discovered in Europe, Australia and NZ
Germany’s Beta Film boards ARD historical crime series Ludwig
TV Nova commissions Czech adaptation of BBC scripted comedy format Ghosts
Fremantle takes Special Delivery of Japanese gameshow format
ZDF Studios to shop S4 of Ancient Superstructures
Netflix UK & Ireland to prescribe medical doc The Ozempic Effect: Beyond the Waistline
BBC Studios renews first-look deal with award-winning prodco Rogan Productions
AMC Lat Am, ABC Oz, Rai to show Patience after acquiring Channel 4 crime drama
BBC Children’s reveals slate of new commissions and acquisitions
Banijay Rights’ unscripted slate makes appointment with Stacey Dooley’s Clickbait Clinic
Apple TV acquires international crime thriller Unconditional from Keshet Int’l
Germany’s ZDF, Australia’s SBS take on BBC, RTÉ crime drama series Tall Tales & Murder
Maya leads All3Media International’s London TV Screenings drama slate
Ian McKellan-fronted factual special tops WBITVP’s slate for London TV Screenings
Bear Grylls shows among 500-hour package of factual picked up by Insight TV
Blue Ant Studios, Nippon TV shop new format Majority Rules to US buyers at London TV Screenings
BritBox and Binge among international buyers of Channel 4’s A Woman of Substance
Podcasts:
Banijay’s Cathy Payne, All3’s Louise Pedersen, Fremantle’s Jens Richter and ITV’s Tom Clark discuss the 2026 London TV Screenings, M&A and today’s distribution landscape
London TV Screenings 2026 preview with DCD’s Nicky Davies Williams, APC’s Emmanuelle Guilbart, BossaNova’s Claire Runham and TVF’s Sam Joyce
