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The wait for news is over… Babylon Berlin is officially coming back for a fifth and final season. The hit period drama’s future has been a topic of discussion since Sky Deutschland pulled out of original commissioning, leaving a funding gap in the series it shares with German pubcaster ARD Degeto…

Babylon Berlin has landed a new U.S. home on a newly-merged streaming service created as Kino Lorber's MHz Choice and Topic combine. The boutique streamer will be named MHz Choice and feature the likes of The Killing, The Bridge, Detective Montalbano, The Sea Beyond and Pagan Peak, alongside the…

EXCLUSIVE: Things have been quiet on the Babylon Berlin front since the shock news came down middle of last year that Sky was pulling out of original commissioning in Germany, including on the hit period drama. Series four aired last fall and fans have been waiting for an update on the fate of series…

The phrase "banality of evil" is the perfect description for Jonathan Glazer's Cannes hit The Zone of Interest. Loosely inspired by the late Martin Amis's 2014 novel, it centers on the Höss family — Rudolf (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their children — a seemingly ordinary…

The producers of Babylon Berlin have confirmed the drama will get a fifth season, despite partner Sky Deutschland pulling out of commissioning in the country. The future of the show was thrown into doubt when news broke Sky’s German arm had decided to stop ordering new shows and films. However, its…

Sky Deutschland will no longer make scripted shows from next year and is closing its scripted arm. The Das Boot, Babylon Berlin and Munich Games network will “halt production of new scripted Sky Originals from 2024 onwards,” according to a note from Sky Deutschland boss Devesh Raj this morning…

EXCLUSIVE: Beta's hit detective series Babylon Berlin, set against the backdrop of the final years of the c, returns this autumn for its fourth season with the drama entering Germany's dark 1930s. Ahead of its highly anticipated launch in Germany on SKY on October 8, as well as on HBO for the CEE and Sky UK, Deadline…

Sky Studios has poached Academy Award-nominated producer Tobias Rosen from Warner Bros. International Television Production to the newly-created role of Vice President in Germany. Rosen will oversee the Das Boot and Babylon Berlin producer’s slate across Germany, Austria and Switzerland as it targets…

Sky Studios’ Devils and Gomorrah producer Nils Hartmann has had his role expanded to oversee both Germany and Italy, replacing Marcus Ammon in the former. Reporting to Sky Studios Chief Content Officer Jane Millichip and starting immediately, Hartmann, who has been with Sky Italia for almost two decades, will help…

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. Deadline understands that he will recur in the new season, which is produced by Tom Tykwer's X Filme Creative Pool in co-production…

SPOILER ALERT: If you are among the few who haven’t actually watched Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, this review contains a lot of details about what goes down in the sad big cat saga. With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it's time to come out and say…

EXCLUSIVE: German series Babylon Berlin has cracked the 100-territory mark for distributor Beta Film, with latest deals including Africa's biggest subscription TV network M-Net and China's Lemon Tree. Ahead of Mipcom, where Beta will continue sales efforts, we can reveal the first look at footage from the third season…