EXCLUSIVE: It might not be the most conventional business plan, but disposing of a body might be the kickstart that Prime Video‘s Clean Up Company needs.

In a Hindi-language trailer for the MX Player/Prime Video comedy-drama, we see friends Raju (Vishal Jethwa), Swapan (Amey Wagh), and Goldie (Atijesh Gupta) stumble across the unusual business opportunity when they are forced to get involved with cleaning up a murder. Turns out, it’s easy money – at least initially.

The bodies start piling up – and business booms – but the growing enterprise puts the trio in the crosshairs of the powerful gangsters and underworld figures in the lawless border town of Saribgunj. At the same time, a determined IPS officer begins closing on the town’s criminal network.

The eight-part series is the latest from Prime Video India‘s prolific originals unit, with Jio Studios and GSEAMS team for the show. Rohan Ghose is the writer and director, with Konarak Mukherjee the co-writer. Jyoti Deshpande, Kartick Nishandar and Arjun Singgh Baran are the producers. Starring alongside Jethwa, Wagh and Gupta are Jisshu Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, and Ravi Kishan.

The show drops on Prime Video and the MX Player Android app, which now has a new identity, MX Player by Prime Videp, this week on August 21.

“At Prime Video, we are always looking for stories that not only have a strong hook, but also bring something unexpected to the experience, and Clean Up Company does exactly that,” said Amogh Dusad, Director and Head of AVOD Content, Prime Video India.

“It takes a seemingly straightforward premise of three friends stumbling into the business of cleaning up crime scenes and places it within the unpredictable world of Saribgunj, where gang rivalries, political power, and survival collide. What makes the series particularly engaging is the way it balances the tension of a crime thriller with friendship and dark humor, brought to life by a terrific ensemble.”

“With Clean Up Company, we wanted to tell a story that is rooted in its world, but still has a universal appeal,” added Nishandar and Singgh Baran in a statement. “The story is a journey of three boys who fight for their survival and ambition.

“As a production house, we have always believed in finding stories that audiences want to watch and bringing them to life in a way that feels authentic. Clean Up Company is another step in that direction. It is a fast-paced, unpredictable story, but at its core, it is also about whether you can really escape the place and circumstances that have shaped you.”

The news comes after Prime Video assimilated MX Player into its service earlier this year. The MX Player brand still lives on a solo app on Android, but the brands have been brought together to offer a one-stop shop to Indian streaming audiences.

Diane Kruger and Dany Boon will star as Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the German-Jewish couple who tracked down former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, in Projet K (working title), the new film from Netflix, the streamer announced Monday.

Tim Roth will play Barbie in the drama, from French director Yvan Attal (The Accusation, Breaking Point). Attal co-wrote the screenplay together with Laurent Turner, who is known for his work on French Netflix crime series Ganglands.

Projet K follows Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, a German woman and a French Jewish man, whose relationship and shared commitment to justice led them to pursue Barbie, the notorious “Butcher of Lyon” for more than a decade, fighting multiple governments and institutions along the way.

Serge (Boon), born in Bucharest in 1935 to a Jewish family that relocated to France before World War II, survived a roundup of Jews in Nice as a child. His father was later arrested and killed at Auschwitz. Beate (Kruger), born in Berlin in 1939, was the daughter of a Wehrmacht soldier. The couple married in 1963 and become known as Nazi hunters, tracking down former Nazi officials and Vichy collaborators, including Kurt Lischka, Ernst Ehlers, Kurt Asche and Maurice Papon, in addition to Barbie.

Barbie (Roth) served as head of the Gestapo in Lyon during the German occupation of France, where he was responsible for the deportation and torture of thousands of people, including the roundup of Jewish children from a safe house.

After the war, he worked for United States intelligence services before relocating to Bolivia under the alias Klaus Altmann. The Klarsfelds identified Barbie’s location and alias in 1971 and campaigned for his extradition. Despite state opposition, including from the Bolivian government at the time, Barbie was extradited to France in 1983, and stood trial in Lyon. Convicted of crimes against humanity, he was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1991.

Barbie reign of terror in Lyon was the focus of Moulin, the Cannes competition film from Son of Saul director László Nemes, with Lars Eidinger playing the Butcher of Lyon and Gilles Lellouche as French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.

The Klarsfelds’ pursuit of Barbie was previously dramatized in the 2008 Canal+ television film La Traque, directed by Laurent Jaoui, in which Attal played Serge Klarsfeld opposite Franka Potente as Beate Klarsfeld.

Attal wrote, directed and starred in Breaking Point (2023) and was the co-writer and director of The Accusation (2021), an adaptation of Karine Tuil’s novel about a rape accusation and its aftermath, which premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2021.

Kruger is coming off a starring turn in Fatih Akin post-WW2 drama Amrum, which premiered in Cannes last year, and roles in Paramount+ drama Little Disasters and HBO Max’s Dangerous Liaisons prequel series The Seduction.

Boon, best known for writing, directing and starring in 2008 French box office smash Welcome to the Sticks, had a starring turn in Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s dramedy Regarde, released in French theaters last year.

Oscar-nominee Roth was most recently see opposite Cillian Murphy in Tom Harper’s Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man feature for Netflix.

Attal is producing Projet K through his Films Sous Influence outfit, together with NAC Films’ Antoine Pezet and Jérôme Corcos. The film will be shot in France, Bolivia and Belgium.

Here’s your first look at Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie in Season 3 of BBC police drama Vigil.

A teaser shows the pair trekking across a frozen tundra, long-range rifle strapped to their backs, as their latest high-stakes investigation takes them to a remote Arctic research station. “In the Arctic, you don’t understand what’s coming,” a foreboding voiceover says in the words spoken in the 25-second trailer.

In Season 3 of the International Emmy-winning series, DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) investigate why a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead in the research station.

They need to both catch the killer and defuse a potential international confrontation, as different nations compete for control of the Arctic and its resources in the changing polar climate.

The first two episodes will drop on Sunday, August 30 in the UK, with eps then running on Sunday and Monday nights at 9pm on BBC One.

Season 3 cast includes Dominic Mafham, reprising his role as Sir Ian Downing, and new cast such as Jeppe Beck Laursen (The Last Kingdom) as Henrick Becken, Svalbard’s Chief of Police; Naomi Yang (Under Salt Marsh) Shen Jia, a microbiologist; Tornike Gogrichiani (Extraction 2) as Fyodor, a Russian colonel; Steven Miller (Dept. Q) and Benjamin Wainwright(Maigret) as Special Boat Service operators; Danusia Samal (Red Eye) as Jasmine Kelly, who works alongside Downing; Eric Godon (In Bruges) as Mayor Korotayev; and Amy Manson (Rebus) as Lorna McCallister, a geologist. Gary Lewis reprises his role as DSU Robertson, who continues to work closely with Amy and Kirsten. 

The six-part season comes from World Productions in association with its parent company, ITV Studios. Tom Edge is writer and creator, with additional writing coming from Tom Mair and Eve Hedderwick Turner. The producer is Marcus Wilson, associate producer is George Aza-Selinger and executive producers are Jake Lushington for World, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC and Edge. Stephanie Fyfe is the commissioning executive for the BBC, and the directors are Gareth Bryn and Faye Gilbert. ITV Studios handles the international distribution.

Vigil Season 1, in which Jones’ Silva was enlisted to solve a murder on a navy submarine in Scottish waters, was BAFTA-nominated and won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2021. Season 2, from 2023, focused on a deadly drone attack, launched to nearly nine million viewers and was in the BBC’s top-three most-watched dramas of the year. In the U.S., both seasons stream on Peacock.