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Australian series Troppo will travel across Europe, thanks to new deals for the crime drama starring Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun.

Canal+ Group’s thriller channel Polar+ snatched up pay, streaming and sell-through rights to it for French-speaking territories, and AMC Networks Central Europe acquired free, pay and streaming rights for the show, which premiered on Australia’s ABC and debuted on Amazon Freevee in the U.S. in May 2022.

RTP2 Portugal snatched up free-tv rights in the territory, while Amazon Freevee has Troppo for Germany and the U.K., and Scandinavian pay-tv group Viaplay carries the show in the Nordics.

Based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, Troppo stars Jane as down-and-out ex-cop Ted Conkaffey, who teams up with Amanda Pharell (Chamoun), an eccentric small-town private investigator to find out who murdered a local tech pioneer. Radha Mitchell, David Lyons and Yerin Ha co-star. Yolanda Ramke created and wrote Troppo,...

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

The six-part political-thriller, which follows Odeon’s AMC+ series Spy City with Dominic Cooper, recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German’s two rival intelligence services.

The acting ensemble comprises Mercedes Müller (Goodbye Berlin) in the lead role of Toni, Max Riemelt (Matrix 4), Sebastian Blomberg (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer), Juergen Maurer (Perfume), Katharina Marie Schubert (A Gift From The Gods), Inga Busch (I’m Your Man), Luise von Finckh (Deutschland 89), Julius Feldmeier (Babylon Berlin) and Johanna Gastdorf (The Wave).

Based on an idea by Gerrit Hermans, the series heralds from director and head writer Claudia Garde (The Window...

While Fatih Akin‘s last feature, The Cut, finally arrived in theaters here in the United States last fall, it seemed to go quite under the radar. The Head-On director is now back this year with a new feature and it’s taking a much different tone than his last drama. An adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorfs‘ novel Tschick, it tells the story of a pair of teenage misfits who steal a car and head out on a roadtrip.

While it hasn’t been picked up for U.S. distribution yet, it’ll arrive in Germany this fall and today brings the first trailer. Although there’s no subtitles yet, one can still get a solid grasp on what to expect, with a more vibrant tone in both the style and script. Starring Anand Batbileg, Tristan Göbel, and Nicole Mercedes Müller, check out the trailer below.

Tschick arrives in Germany on...