‘Deutschland 83’ Creator Jörg Winger Sets Disney+ Star Series On East Germany’s First Black Police Officer

Lise Pedersen A hallmark of Germany’s flourishing TV production industry, drama series “Echos” was unveiled at the Berlinale’s newly established Series Market Selects label this week.A coming-of-age show of six one-hour episodes, “Echos” tells the story of Max, Nellie and Janosch, three privileged twenty-somethings from Munich. Always in search of new thrills, they head to an illegal rave party in the Munich catacombs.

Laetitia Eido, the French actress known to fans of Netflix's Israeli drama Fauda as Dr. Shirin El Abed, has signed on to co-star in Nhiem, a new high-end television series set during the Vietnam War from New Zealand director Roger Donaldson (The World's Fastest Indian) and German production group Carte Blanche International.

The latest animal abuse scandal has been caught on tape, and it really is cringeworthy to watch.

Bill Burr has some thoughts about Gina Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian!

You may not recognize her name, but actress Barbara Sukowa has pretty much seen it all over her long career. She was the muse of acclaimed filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and has worked with directors such as David Cronenberg, Lars von Trier, Sebastián Lelio, and Agnieszka Holland.

who was recently fired from the Disney+ show over controversial tweets. The 38-year-old mixed martial arts pioneer — who played ex-stormtrooper Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” spinoff — had tweeted in February that the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood was akin to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Neil Lennon, with John Kennedy in charge as interim boss for the remainder of the season.But Celtic scouts have reportedly watched defensive talent van Ewijk, who has impressed for Den Haag in the Eredivisie this season.However, they face competition to land van Ewijk - who has 18 months left of his contract - from German clubs Schalke, Hamburg, Darmstadt and Belgian side Gent.Get all the latest Celtic news sent straight to your Inbox every day by signing up to our newsletter.We cover every

Bill Burr is the first actor from The Mandalorian to defend his former co-star Gina Carano after she was fired from the Disney+ show.

Jamie Lang For the third year in a row, Netflix has a film in the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival. This year, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “A Cop Movie” follows the path first blazed by Isabel Coixet’s “Elisa Y Marcela,” which at the time was met with a letter from 160 German independent exhibitors demanding the film be removed from competition.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Ivanir, the Ukrainian-Israeli actor who has starred in The Good Shepherd and Netflix series Away, has joined the cast of Season 4 of German crime drama Babylon Berlin.

Cottonwood Media, German public broadcaster ZDF and its co-pro and distribution arm ZDF Enterprises, HBO Max and Brazil’s Globo are teaming to produce “Theodosia,” a big new live action kids adventure series targeting family audiences.No budget is given for the 26-part half hour series.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, John Boyega’s UpperRoom sets animation deal with ViacomCBS’s VIS Kids; Germany’s Bavaria Film acquires Story House companies; and International Literary Properties appoints Hilary Strong as U.K./Europe CEO.“Star Wars” and “Small Axe” actor John Boyega‘s UpperRoom Productions has set a deal to present three to five animation projects to ViacomCBS International Studios‘ VIS Kids for development into a long form series.

BBC comedy The Cleaner.The new show, which is due this year, is based on long-running German sitcom Der Tatortreiniger.“I’m thrilled that this remarkable collection of actors has agreed to appear next to me on screen,” Davies said of the cast, which also includes Stephanie Cole, Game of Thrones‘ Donald Sumpter, Shobu Kapoor and more, in a statement.“Scrubbing up blood in a hazmat suit in front of them will be a pleasure.”A synopsis for The Cleaner reads: “Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead (Davies), is a

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, BBC comedy “The Cleaner” sets cast; EFP’s ‘Producers on the Move’ program sets May dates; NBCUniversal’s reality streamer Hayu expands in Europe; Indian multiplex chain PVR announces release slate; and MTV International’s “Celebrity Bumps: Famous & Pregnant” to debut in March.Helena Bonham-Carter (“The Crown”) and Greg Davies (“The Inbetweeners”) lead the cast of “The Cleaner,” an adaptation of long-running German comedy series “Der Tatortreiniger”

Helena Bonham Carter Joins BBC Comedy ‘The Cleaner’ Helena Bonham Carter and Peep Show star David Mitchell are among those cast in BBC comedy The Cleaner. Written and headlined by Inbetweeners and Taskmaster star Greg Davies, the series is a remake of a German comedy.

BERLIN -- Hundreds of German police and other investigators raided more than 20 buildings in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg early Thursday in a crackdown on two feuding organized crime families, authorities said.Berlin prosecutors said on Twitter that two people were arrested in the raids targeting illegal drug and weapons trafficking.In addition, authorities were investigating bodily harm charges linked to a “clash of clans” between an Arabic and a Chechen organized crime

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentCanal Plus and Sky Studios have teamed up on Spaghetti Western TV series “Django” with production set to start in May and German actor Matthias Schoenaerts (“Bullhead”) in the title role.Co-produced by Italy’s Cattleya, which is controlled by ITV, and France’s Atlantique Productions, “Django” is being described as a high-concept English-language reimagining of the cult 1966 Sergio Corbucci Western that launched the career of Italian icon Franco Nero,

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentWim Wenders’ Berlin-based Road Movies has boarded “This Is Music,” a series whose episode directors – New German Cinema leading light Wenders, singer-songwriter David Byrne, “Skam” creator Julie Andem and “Louder Than Bombs” director Joachim Trier – make the title the highest profile project at this year’s Berlinale Co-Pro Series.Norwegian public broadcaster NRK is backing the development of the series, which has also received support from the