Monday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

The Walsh Sisters travel around the world

Disney+ UK, Stan among The Walsh Sisters buyers

RTÉ and BBC’s comedy drama The Walsh Sisters has been sold by Cineflix Rights to Disney+ in the UK in a second window deal.

Other buyers include: TV2 (Norway), TV4 (Sweden), MTV Oy (Finland), TVNZ (New Zealand), Pickbox (Balkans) and Yes (Israel).

Stan is the show’s Australian home and Roku’s Howdy streamer will air it in the US.

The Walsh Sisters is based on Marian Keyes’ bestselling novels and the first series became RTÉ’s highest-rated drama of the past two years. Production has begun on the second series.

Spanish novel Clarín sets Netflix adaptation

Netflix has started production on an adaptation of Leopoldo Alas's classic Spanish novel Clarín.

The film reinterprets the story from a female perspective and has Mar Coll (Salve Maria) directing, María Zamora (Romería) producing, and Ester Expósito (Elite) leading cast as Regenta.

La Regenta follows a woman living in an empty marriage who inadvertently becomes the center of two opposing obsessions, with her stifling hometown watching her every move.

The film is produced by María Zamora for Elastica Films, marking the company’s first collaboration with Netflix.

Wildstar moves onto YouTube

Fremantle company Wildstar Films has joined with wildlife filmmaker, explorer and scientist Dan O’Neill to launch a YouTube channel.

The World is Out There will unite Wildstar’s expertise in natural history programme-making with O’Neill’s knowledge, appetite for adventure and content creation. It will have three core strands: The World is Out There Expedition, which will comprise longer form docs following O’Neill on wildlife expeditions; a monthly visualised podcast where he takes guests on walks outdoors; and The World Is Out There Explainers – shorter, presenter-led films exploring animal behaviour, science and topical stories from the natural world.

The aim of the digital channel is to attract audiences who may not traditionally watch natural history programming. Read more

Prime Video orders nail bombing doc

Yeti Television is exploring the 1999 London Nail Bombings in a feature-length single for Amazon Prime Video.

Distributor Sphere Abacus brokered the deal with Prime Video for Surviving the London Nail Bombings, which includes eyewitness accounts of the targeted lethal nail bombs that occurred over three successive weeks in April 1999 – the deadliest far-right attack on British soil.

The 90-minute film will premiere later this year and was acquired as part of a multiple true-crime deal with Prime Video UK & Ireland. Sphere Abacus’s global content director Will Stapley arranged the deal.

Surviving the London Nail Bombings will use interviews, archive news reports, CCTV and images captured by a photographer who happened to be nearby to tell the story of the attacks. Read more