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Spectrum Originals has picked up the Latin American scripted series Side Games (Todo por el juego) from The Mediapro Studio's Imagina International Sales.

Freeform has ordered to pilot Close Up, a new one-hour drama series executive produced by How to Get Away with Murder creator Peter Nowalk and written by Keith Staskiewicz.

Sidse Babett Knudsen (Westworld), Mark Lewis Jones (Chernobyl), Joanna Scanlan (Notes on a Scandal) and Genevieve Barr (Call the Midwife) are among the actors joining Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) in the tentatively titled new drama The Light.

One Life Studios has sold the historical drama series Porus to the broadcaster Alfa TV in Macedonia.

The actors talk about what appealed to them about signing on for the Starz series and weigh in on how the show crosses genres to deliver something truly unique.

Global Series Network (GSN) has picked up the Russian series The Sect to air on the Walter Presents VOD platform in the U.K. and Ireland.

ABS-CBN Corporation has licensed the Filipino crime drama The Blood Sisters to Channel 31 in Kazakhstan.

Production has commenced on Invisible Stories, HBO Asia’s newest original series, which tells the untold stories of everyday people in Singapore.

ITV has commissioned the new two-part drama Honour, which will star Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard).

A+E Networks has notched up new deals with international broadcasters, including TNT in Spain, for the second season of Project Blue Book.