Monday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

Quay Street's The Blame travels

ITV and Quay Street Productions drama The Blame has been picked up by companies including SVT (Sweden), TV 2 (Norway), Sky (New Zealand).

The 6 x 60-minute series, based on Charlotte Langley's debut noivel of the same name, has also been picked up by RTV Slovenija (Slovenia), Hot and yes (Israel), OSN+ (MENA), VTM (Belgium), RTÉ (Ireland), NOS (Portugal), and Pickbox (Balkans).

Megan Gallagher writes, with the story tracking two detectives who uncover a tangled web of lies and cover-ups following a murder.

It stars Michelle Keegan (Fool Me Once) and Douglas Booth (The Sandman) and was produced in association with Fifth Season, which sells globally.

Nobody Wants This returns again

Netflix has extended comedy series Nobody Wants This into a fourth season.

The order comes less than a month after S3 debuted, delivering the largest opening week for a returning comedy series on Netflix this year with 13.4m views in its first two weeks.

S4 is being produced in LA, with co-showrunners and EPs Erin Foster, Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan attached.

Foster is creator and 20th Television produces, with cast including Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn.

72 Films' Rise of a Genius extended 

The BBC has ordered a fourth series of its BBC2 docudrama format Rise of a Genius, this time examining the life and work of deaf maestro Beethoven.

The three-part Beethoven: Rise of a Genius will once again be produced by Fremantle-owned 72 Films, and follows previous series about Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen.

Set to mark the 200th anniversary of the German composer’s death in spring 2027, the series will draw off Beethoven’s letters as well as the lived experience and expertise of deaf people, aiming to immerse viewers fully in his world and reveal his artistic process.

It will also explore his personal struggles including his desperate search for a cure for his deafness and his quest for love.