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2025

BBC Acquires a New Adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities

Federation Stories and Thriker Films have announced their new four-part drama adaptation of Charles Dickens’ literary classic, A Tale Of Two Cities, set to air on the BBC in the UK and MGM+ in the US. The four-part limited series stars Kit Harington (Industry, Game of Thrones), François Civil (Beating...


17th September 2025
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Prime Video Acquires Popular Web Series Helluva Boss

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – April 25, 2025 – Today, Prime Video announced at LVL UP Expo an acquisition of the wickedly popular web series Helluva Boss from the world of Hazbin Hotel. Helluva Boss has been picked up for Seasons 3 and 4. Executive Producer Vivienne Medrano also closes a “first look” deal with Prime...


26th April 2025
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BBC Acquires Families Like Ours

The BBC has acquired Families Like Ours, the debut TV drama series from acclaimed Academy Award and BAFTA winning director Thomas Vinterberg, for BBC iPlayer and BBC Four, from STUDIOCANAL. Written by Vinterberg (Another Round, The Hunt) and Bo Hr. Hansen (Department Q: Journal 64, The Art of Crying), Families...


10th March 2025
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Sky acquires All Her Fault

Sky has exclusively acquired upcoming US drama, All Her Fault. Emmy® and two-time Golden Globe® winning actress Sarah Snook (Succession, Predestination) will lead an all-star cast and executive produce the upcoming suburban-thriller series. All Her Fault is adapted by Megan Gallagher (Wolf, Suspicion) from the best-selling novel of the same name by Andrea Mara, which...


24th February 2025
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BBC Acquires Marble Hall Murders

The BBC has acquired Marble Hall Murders, an adaptation of the third and final instalment in best-selling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. The follow-up from the acclaimed Moonflower Murders and Magpie Murders will be made by Eleventh Hour Films in association with Salt Films for PBS MASTERPIECE and the BBC.  It is...


29th January 2025
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2024

BBC acquires over 1000 episodes of One Piece

Straw Hat Crew get ready! The BBC has acquired the UK rights to over 1000 episodes of the English dubbed versions of the legendary anime series One Piece. One Piece is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation, based on Eiichiro Oda’s manga series of the same name,...


30th August 2024
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ITV Studios acquires Hartswood Films

ITV Studios has today announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Hartswood Films, the multi-award-winning production company behind a raft of landmark scripted series, including recent ITVX and ITV1 hit Douglas Is Cancelled, Prime Video’s critically acclaimed returning psychological thriller The Devil’s Hour and the BBC’s Emmy award winning Sherlock. Based in London and...


25th July 2024
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BBC Acquires French Thriller Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime

The BBC has acquired Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels, from Federation Studios. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries The Staircase and the drama Laetitia, recounts the extraordinary legal case of a serial rapist...


5th July 2024
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BBC Acquires High Country

The BBC has acquired the gripping new Australian mystery series High Country for BBC iPlayer and TV channels, from Curio Pictures and Sony Pictures Television. A fictional story inspired by true events, High Country is an eight-part thriller that revolves around detective Andrea (Andie) Whitford, who is transferred to the...


10th June 2024
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BBC Acquires Apples Never Fall

The BBC has acquired Apples Never Fall, a limited drama series based on Liane Moriarty’s (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers) #1 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels. With a star cast led by Annette Bening and Sam Neill, the seven-part...


4th June 2024
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BBC Acquires Suits Etc.

The BBC has acquired all nine seasons of the hit American legal drama Suits; mockumentary St. Denis Medical; and the series continuation of the hit Best Man films, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels. The three titles have been acquired from NBCUniversal Global TV...


21st March 2024
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Netflix Acquires Tires, Debuting May 23

Netflix today announced an extended partnership with beloved comedian Shane Gillis. This includes a six-episode acquisition of Gillis’ new scripted comedy series, Tires, which will premiere on May 23.  Gillis stars in the series, serves as an executive producer, is a writer and co-creator.  Netflix also ordered a new stand-up...


27th February 2024
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BBC Acquires Drama The Gone

The BBC has acquired mystery thriller The Gone starring Richard Flood (Grey’s Anatomy) and Acushla-Tara Kupe (Mr.Corman), for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer from Red Arrow Studios International. The six-part series follows the journey of Irish detective Theo Richter (Richard Flood) who teams up with a Kiwi detective, Diana Huia...


23rd February 2024
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Prime Video Acquires Family Drama Series The Baxters

CULVER CITY, California —January 25, 2024 — Today, Prime Video announced that it has acquired the family drama series The Baxters from LightWorkers Media. The series stars and is executive produced by actress, producer, and New York Times best-selling author Roma Downey as the family matriarch, Elizabeth Baxter. Also starring...


25th January 2024
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2023

BBC acquires Mayfair Witches, based on Anne Rice’s acclaimed trilogy

The BBC has acquired supernatural drama Mayfair Witches, based on the best-selling novels by Anne Rice, for BBC Two and iPlayer. The eight-part series from AMC NETWORKS stars Emmy®-nominee Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), Jack Huston (House of Gucci, Fargo), Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) and Tongayi Chirisa (Palm Springs, Antebellum)....


14th November 2023
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BBC acquires Irish crime drama Kin

The BBC has acquired the thrilling Irish crime drama KIN, an eight-part series produced by BRON Studios (Joker) and Headline Pictures (The Man in the High Castle), from FIFTH SEASON for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The drama’s cast is led by Clare Dunne (Herself), Charlie Cox (Daredevil), Aidan Gillen (Game...


27th October 2023
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BBC Acquires French Drama Dark Hearts

The BBC has acquired new French action drama Dark Hearts from Newen Connect for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. The six-part series stars Marie Dompnier (Witnesses), Thierry Godard (Spiral), and Nicolas Duvauchelle (Braquo). Dark Hearts is set in Iraq on the eve of the battle for Mosul in October 2016,...


6th October 2023
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BBC Acquires AMC Networks’ Interview with the Vampire

The BBC has acquired AMC Networks’ smash hit drama Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s best-selling novel, for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. The seven-part series stars Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Broadchurch), Sam Reid (The Newsreader, Prime Suspect 1973, Lambs of God), Bailey Bass (Avatar:...


14th September 2023
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BBC Acquires Scrublands

The BBC has acquired new Australian crime drama Scrublands, based on the award-winning novel written by Chris Hammer, for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. The four-part series from Australian production company Easy Tiger (Colin from Accounts, The Twelve) stars Luke Arnold (Black Sails, Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story...


4th September 2023
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BBC Acquires Second Series of Colin From Accounts

Patrick Brammall (Offspring, Glitch) and Harriet Dyer (The Invisible Man, No Activity) will return to write, star and executive produce the series which will air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. It will be produced by Easy Tiger Productions (Jack Irish, Rake, The Twelve). The series is distributed outside of...


11th August 2023
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BBC acquires Black Snow

The BBC has acquired Australian crime drama Black Snow for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. The six-part series stars Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Danger Close), Jemmason Power, Talijah Blackman-Corowa, Eden Cassady, Seini Willett and Gulliver McGrath (Dark Shadows, Lincoln). A small-town Australian high-school gathers for the ceremonial opening of a time-capsule...


10th August 2023
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Sky Cinema Acquires Rrights to SHE CAME TO ME

Sky today announces that Rebecca Miller’s hotly anticipated modern romantic comedy She Came To Me will be on Sky Cinema in the UK and Ireland. The news comes ahead of the film opening the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival this week. BAFTA and Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway, Golden Globe and Emmy Award...


16th February 2023
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Searchlight Pictures Acquires Magazine Dreams

Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Elijah Bynum’s acclaimed sophomore feature “Magazine Dreams,” winner of the Sundance Jury Award for Creative Vision. The provocative drama, which premiered to standing ovations at the festival, stars Jonathan Majors (“Creed III,” “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”), Haley Bennett (“The Girl on the...


14th February 2023
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2022

BBC Acquires Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

Described as one of the best horror TV shows of the past two decades when it launched on HBO Max earlier this year, BBC viewers can expect thrills and chills from this dark and twisty addition to the iconic franchise. — Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition From Warner Bros....


27th October 2022
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Channel 4 Acquires Nine Perfect Strangers

Star cast includes Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans and Regina Hall Channel 4 has acquired the eight-episode Hulu Original limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, which will launch on the channel on Wednesday 28th September at 10pm and be available for catch up viewing on All 4. Based on Liane...


8th September 2022
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BBC Acquires International Dramas

BBC acquires International dramas Senorita 89 and KaDeWe from Fremantle Senorita 89 is a scandalous thriller from Fremantle and the Oscar-winning producers Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín and KaDeWe – Our Time is Now – is a sophisticated drama created by the renowned filmmaker Julia von Heinz. Senorita 89...


21st July 2022
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Netflix Acquires Animation Studio Animal Logic

Netflix and Animal Logic are excited to announce today that Netflix plans to acquire the Australian animation studio.* This acquisition will support Netflix’s ambitious animated film slate, building on films like Academy Award-nominated Over the Moon, Academy Award-nominated Klaus and the recently released The Sea Beast. Animal Logic has been...


20th July 2022
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Cattleya Producciones Acquires Rights to Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Cattleya Producciones, a production company that specializes in the creation of drama series and films, part of ITV Studios, has acquired the audiovisual rights to Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel El Italiano, which it will be adapting for television in a mini-series format. Inspired by real events, El Italiano is a story...


11th July 2022
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