LONDON: BBC Worldwide has licensed the scripted-format rights for The Office to Finnish broadcasters Elisa Entertainment and Nelonen.

LONDON: Kim Cattrall (Sensitive Skin, Sex and the City) has joined the cast of the new two-part drama The Witness for the Prosecution, an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic title for BBC One.

The actress, who plays Eleanor Wish, a former FBI agent and Bosch’s ex-wife and mother of his daughter, speaks about her character and the series.

SYDNEY: Michael Brooks has been named managing director of Warner Bros. International Television Production in Australia.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has taken a minority stake in the production indie Two Cities Television, set up by Michael Jackson and Alex Graham.

LONDON: FremantleMedia has secured seven new commissions for the reality format My First Holiday in territories such as Spain and Poland.

LOS ANGELES/MIAMI: Kevin Plunkett has been tapped to serve as executive VP and head of television for the newly formed TV-production joint venture from Lionsgate and New Regency.

SEATTLE: The second season of the preschool series Creative Galaxy is making its debut on Amazon Prime Video next month.

SYDNEY: ABC3, which has been airing programming for school-aged children and their families since 2009, is slated to rebrand next month as ABC ME, celebrating the lives, interests and diversity of young Aussies.

Commercial TV channels in the U.K. have enjoyed a healthy start to 2016, with viewing up in the first half of the year, according to Thinkbox.