Netflix picks up a series about Marco Polo with “sexual intrigue"
Netflix continues to be a landing spot for series that stall at other networks. The streaming site saved a fourth season of The Killing after a second AMC cancellation, and now it's picked up the Weinstein Company's nine-episode series Marco Polo, which was formerly in development at Starz. The China-set series will focus on the 13th-century explorer and film in Malaysia. According to Variety, it's “replete with astonishing martial arts, sexual intrigue, political skullduggery, and spectacular battles.”