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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWarnerMedia is set to premiere Taiwanese drama series “Who’s By Your Side” later this year. It will be presented as an HBO Asia original and play on HBO and the streaming service HBO Go in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Directed by Peter Ho, the ten-part show with 60-minute episodes, explores relationship issues and marital challenges, and depicts painful dilemmas for the characters through a unique lens on their daily lives.

For a while, it seemed that the memoir “Maid,” by author Stephanie Land, was one of the hottest books around. And when you have that sort of buzz, it’s only a matter of time until we see it get adapted into a film or TV series, right? Enter Netflix and the new series, “Maid,” which adapts Land’s memoir into a new drama series about a young single mother who is doing anything she can to survive after leaving an abusive relationship.

EXCLUSIVE: BET+ has given a series order to Kingdom Business, a music-driven drama executive produced by DeVon Franklin (Miracles From Heaven), Holly Carter (The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel), multi-Grammy-award-winner Kirk Franklin and Michael Van Dyck. The eight-episode series explores the gospel music industry through the lenses of family, faith, love and the redemptive power of music.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is rounding out the recurring cast for the second season of its popular drama series Big Sky. Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) is set for a key role along with Madelyn Kientz (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Troy Johnson (On My Block), Lola Reid (Barkskins), Jeremy Taylor (It films) TV Carpio (Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark) and Arturo Del Puerto (Camping).

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S.

Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse wowed her fans with an incredible hair transformation, as she looked worlds away from her usual look on the ballroom dance floor.The German and South African professional has become a celebrity in her own right on the popular BBC talent series, having now become the first dancer to win two years in a row.

EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios will handle world sales for Odeon Fiction’s new high-end German-language spy series Bonn.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefEndeavor Content has come on board as the global sales agent for “The Panthers,” a musical social justice drama series from New Zealand.It was Friday confirmed that the series will make its international premiere as an official selection at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, as part of the Primetime program.The six, hour-long episodes, based-on-a-true-story series covers a devastating and resonant period in New Zealand’s history through the

The end is in sight for The Handmaid’s Tale.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros. International Television Production Germany (WBITVP Germany) has acquired the exclusive international rights to bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson’s “Dark Iceland” series of crime novels and will co-produce with Herbert L.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.

Coming off her role in the upcoming Hulu limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, Grace Van Patten has been tapped as the lead of the streamer’s drama Tell Me Lies, which has received a straight-to-series order.

EXCLUSIVE: Telepool’s Global Screen and Elsani & Neary Media are joining forces to develop a television series based on the true stories of the people who dug Tunnel 29, the famed secret passage from West to East Berlin that ran underneath the Berlin Wall.

Company Of Heroes 3 has made it possible for fans of the game to play as Germany, something that is not yet possible in the official pre-alpha version.For the official pre-alpha version of Company Of Heroes 3, Relic Entertainment has only made British and American forces playable.Earlier in the month however, a forum user on the Company Of Heroes 3 site posted an edited save file that allows participants in the pre-alpha to play as the previously locked German faction in battle (thanks,

Guy Lodge Film CriticLike a scene of the 1969 moon landing seen on a prison TV late in “Great Freedom” — “I thought it would be more exciting,” muses one inmate — seismic change seems less spectacular when charted against the everyday grind of life behind bars in this gripping, tender-hearted prison drama from Austrian director Sebastian Meise.

Jessica Kiang Hong Sangsoo characters have a habit of — you might even say a genius for — diffidence in the face of profundity.