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Here we are Insiders, the sun is shining and Max Goldbart is present to guide you through the week’s headlines. Read on, and sign up here. German Deep Dive From 'CSI: Berlin' to nothing at all: The Munich Film Festival kicks off this morning…

When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-TV giant revealed it wasn't simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the…

Good afternoon Insiders, Jesse Whittock coming to you from Seriencamp in Germany this week. Strap in for the top TV and film news from the international sector this week. And sign up here. ‘Peaky’s Blind Ambition By order of the Netflix…

The team behind Apple TV+’s big-budget European drama Constellation took to the stage in Cologne this week to talk developing the psychological sci-fi drama, technical challenges of shooting zero gravity, almost casting Jeff Bridges and why they spent nearly $550,000 on space suits. You can watch a video…

British drama series Lost Boys & Fairies has won the Seriencamp Official Competition Award here in Cologne. The BBC series, which is from Duck Soup Films and sold internationally by All3Media International, is billed as “tender, glittering story of gay couple Gabriel and Andy’s journey to adoption…

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Hess accepted Deadline's first ever German TV Disruptor Award at Seriencamp in Cologne today. The powerhouse writer lived up to her award billing when speaking with Deadline, with a no-holds-barred take on the industry's gender pay gap. She also dished details on Ku’damm 77, the latest…

The TV industry can benefit from some of the hard lessons learnt in the film business, Johanna Koljonen, the author of the influential Nostradamus report told a Seriencamp audience in Germany. As a panel of industry experts weighed in, the sense was the much-used “survive 'til '25” aphorism might need to…

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Doelger’s latest world-building exercise will debut globally at Seriencamp on Thursday when science-fiction drama Concordia gets its world premiere. Above we’ve got an exclusive clip from the “near-fi” series, which follows a flourishing, utopian Swedish city in which citizens’ lives…

European TV distributors are weighing up the impact of the global streaming reset — and a key challenge is explaining the value of content to producers and global streamers. In an opening Meet the Distributors session featuring French firms Newen Studios, Studiocanal, Mediawan Rights and Oble…

EXCLUSIVE: German drama series I Am Scrooge has landed homes in North America, Europe and Australia ahead of its world premiere at Seriencamp in Cologne this week. Beta Film has sold the RTL miniseries, which is from the German producer-distributor’s subsidiary Zeitsprung Pictures, to MHZ in the U.S…

Annette Hess will receive the first-ever Deadline German TV Disruptor Award at Seriencamp next month. Hess has created some of the most memorable German drama series of recent years with work including Weisensee and the Ku'damm series, to Disney+ show The Interpreter of Silence, based on Hess' novel Deutsc…

EXCLUSIVE: German-based TV event Seriencamp will return to Cologne in June and has a raft of key industry players signed up for its upcoming tenth edition. Seriencamp attracts delegates from across Europe and has become a fixture in the calendar of international TV events. A first look at the 2024…