All the latest news from the global content industry on Tuesday, 5 May

 

Night Agent to end on Netflix

Netflix is to end The Night Agent after its upcoming fourth season.

The Peter Sutherland-starring show is from creator and showrunner Shawn Ryan (The Shield), with production on the final run now filming in LA.

Netflix said Ryan had been “laying the groundwork” in previous seasons for the series to end after its fourth run. Sony Pictures Television produces.

 

Seefood TV fprmat extends European runs

Nordic format Celebrity Task Force has been extended into fourth and fifth seasons in Poland and Sweden, respectively.

The show, from The Box creators Seefood TV, is being produced in Poland by TTV, where it is known as Nasi w Mundurach. The fourth run will feature an all-male cast made up of contestants who believe in ‘traditional’ male values and men who wat to redefine what fatherhood looks like.

A fifth run will also launch on Kanal 5 and HBO Max in Sweden, known locally as Kompani.

 

Arianna Reiche unveils IP platform Bo-sco

A literary IP scouting subscription service aimed at producers and development professionals has launched.

Bo-sco delivers monthly curated intelligence reports on literary IP available for option, bur which do not garner regular trade coverage or wider industry attention. The company describes this material as “screen-ready”, ranging from short fiction, small press fiction, backlist and estate catalogues, high-potenital early-stage or pre-deal manuscripts and emerging talent in international literary scenes without established scouting infrastructure.

The service, which is operation from today (5 May) also covers the growing category of digital IP, such as viral narratives, forum lore and subcultural storytelling, as seen with feature film Zola, which was based on a viral X thread, and upcoming horror film Backrooms which is inspired by an online urban legend.

Bo-sco is the brainchild of author and media researcher Arianna Reiche, who has worked with the likes of Condé Nast, Vice and The New Yorker, and worked in development with Netflix and Endeavor, among others.

 

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