World Screen

NEW YORK: Spike has given a straight-to-series order for an original TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s award-winning Mars book trilogy. Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars chronicle mankind’s colonization and transformation of the red planet. The books have been …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has named Knockout Licensing as the licensing agent for the period drama Poldark in the U.S. and Canada. Knockout Licensing will oversee the development of a dedicated Poldark consumer products program. Co-produced by …

NEW YORK: Expanding its suite of services exclusively focused on the business of drama production and distribution, World Screen is launching TV Drama Daily in 2016. A new online newsletter, TV Drama Daily will provide the latest updates on the …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury has partnered with Sharon Mustos to adapt Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel Fall on Your Knees into a four-part miniseries for CBC. The book will be adapted by Adriana Maggs (Rookie Blue, Call Me Fitz, Grown Up Movie Star) and …

NEW YORK: Homeland and The Affair, the top two highest-rated scripted programs on premium television this fall, have been renewed by Showtime for sixth and third seasons, respectively. Homeland stars Claire Danes as a bipolar CIA agent. The show, based …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has renewed the psychological thriller Wayward Pines from executive producer M. Night Shyamalan for a sophomore season, set to air next summer. Ten brand-new episodes of the drama will pick up where season one left off, when a new …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has greenlit a new dramatic event series, Shots Fired, about the aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small town in Tennessee.  The drama is written and executive produced by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, The Secret …

LONDON: The BBC has commissioned a sixth season of the drama series Call the Midwife. The latest season is comprised of a 2016 Christmas special and eight hour-long episodes, which are set for 2017. Produced for BBC One by Neal …

ATLANTA: TNT has added two new dramas to its 2016 schedule: the thriller Good Behavior, starring Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery, and Animal Kingdom. Good Behavior in an adaptation of the Letty Dobesh novels by Wayward Pines author Blake Crouch. It …

LOS ANGELES: HBO has renewed The Leftovers, a critically acclaimed drama series co-created and executive produced by Lost mastermind Damon Lindelof, for a third and final season. Based on the best-selling book penned by Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers takes place …