The London TV Screenings, or London Screenings for short, the global TV industry event running Feb. 23-28, is ready for its close-up. The once low-key affair, where networks and sales outfits screen their latest shows for international buyers, has grown to cant-miss status over the years. 2025 will be London Screenings time to shine, particularly without any competition from the now-defunct MIP TV.

That said, MIP will be holding its own inaugural MIP London event during the week, featuring panel discussions on industry trends, hot new properties from the likes of South Korea and Japan, as well as a session with David Beckham and Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria. The London Screenings come at an inflection point for the global TV industry. After a sustained boom in high-end drama, networks, and streamers are again cutting costs and betting more on lower-cost non-fiction and reality shows. In the fiction arena, dark and risky premises have given way to more middle-brow sitcoms and cop-and-crime dramas.

But there is still room for new ideas. Banijay Entertainment, for example, just unveiledAI Love You, a new technology-driven show format headlining itsLondon TV Screeningslineup that taps into the fascination and debate surrounding artificial intelligence.

And there are still a few daring dramas out there. For its London TV Screenings hot list, The Hollywood Reporter has picked 10 of the most exciting new fiction offerings up for sale in London next week.

A Prophet

BUZZ A reimagining of the iconic 2009 prison drama, from Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard, this French series follows Malik, a young African immigrant, who finds himself behind bars and in a battle for survival.

SALES Studiocanal

SCREENINGS 5.30pm-11pm, Sunday, Ham Yard Hotel

A Prophet @Christian-Mantuano Kabul

BUZZ A six-part English-language thriller, told through the eyes of an Afghani family, retraces the chaotic events of August 15, 2021, when American troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban swept to control in Kabul.

SALES Mediawan Rights

SCREENINGS 5pm, Wednesday, The Soho Hotel

Kabul MEDIAWAN King Conqueror

BUZZ This promising period gem follows the story of a showdown that defined the future of Europe for a thousand years. James Norton (Happy Valley) is Harold of Wessex and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) is William of Normandy, two allies with no design on the British throne who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for the crown, that would come to a head in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

SALES Paramount Global Content Distribution

SCREENINGS 10am-12pm (unscripted), 2-6pm (scripted), Tuesday, Curzon Soho Cinema

King and Conqueror Paramount Other Peoples Money

BUZZ The latest German drama from the outfit behind Babylon Berlin is a dramatization of the real-life story of the worlds largest financial heist, when a criminal network of wealthy investors, bankers, and lawyers orchestrated a $150 billion+ tax fraud scheme across Europe.

SALES Beta Film

SCREENINGS 9am-1pm, Tuesday, Picturehouse Central

Other Peoples Money X-Filme-Creative-Pool-GmbH-True-Content-Entertainment-ApS-EPO-Film-ZDF-DR-Petro-Domenigg_ Safe Harbor

BUZZ This violent and provocative European crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams, set in the world of drug smuggling in the port city of Rotterdam, features an all-star cast including Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Colm Meaney (Gangs of London), and Charlie Murphy (Happy Valley).

SALES Eccho Rights

SCREENINGS 7pm-10pm, Wednesday, Century Club

Safe Harbor Submarine Sunny Nights

BUZZ The new series from Colin from Accounts showrunner Trent ODonnell stars Will Forte and DArcy Carden as a brother and sister dragged into a world of crime while setting up a spray tan business in Sydney, Australia.

SALES Cineflix Rights

SCREENINGS 3-5pm scripted; 5-7pm factual, Tuesday, Soho Hotel

Sunny Nights Lisa Tomasetti, Jungle, Stan, Cineflix Rights The Hack

BUZZ Produced by the team behind ITVs smash series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, this based-on-real-life drama stars David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, and Toby Jones in the story of the notorious British phone hacking scandal.

SALES ITV Studios

SCREENINGS 10am-12.30pm formats; 12.30pm-2.15pm non-scripted; 2.15pm-7pm drama, Wednesday, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

The Hack ITV/Stan This City is Ours

BUZZ An epic new crime drama created and written by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom), whose Italian mafia series The Good Mothers was a Critics Choice Award nominee last year, this Liverpool-set show features Sean Bean as gang leader Ronnie Phelan.

SALES Sony Pictures Television

SCREENINGS 5-7pm showcase, Picturehouse Central; 7-9pm cocktail party, Ham Yard Hotel; both Thursday

This City is Ours Sony Pictures Television Underbelly

BUZZ Arrow star Stephen Amell plays a border town cop who uncovers an illegal drug ring linked to his childhood friend and playing out in the scenic Thousand Islands archipelago between Canada and the U.S. Minnie Driver co-stars.

SALES Fifth Season

SCREENINGS All day, Monday-Friday, Fifth Season office screening room, Marylebone

Underbelly Ben Mark Holzberg/benmark.ca We Come in Peace

BUZZ The new sci-fi series from Humans creator Lars Lundstrm kicks off with a mysterious jellyfish-shaped entity hovering over Stockholm. The UFO triggers panic and it is up to Civil Defense agent Elias (Westworlds Fares Fares) and scientist Zandra (Evin Ahmad from Snabba Cash), to uncover the truth behind this extraterrestrial phenomenon.

SALES Newen Connect

SCREENINGS 2pm, Tuesday, Ham Yard Hotel

We Come in Peace TV4