World Screen

LOS ANGELES: FOX International Channels (FIC) has set a day-and-date release for the new chapter of The X-Files across more than 60 countries worldwide. FIC's FOX channels will debut the new six-episode event series immediately following the January 24 premiere …

TORONTO: CTV has ordered an 18-episode fifth season of the original medical drama series Saving Hope, with production slated to kick off in Toronto in spring 2016. Saving Hope centers on the lives of the doctors and nurses working at …

EDMONTON: Super Channel is bringing the nine-hour Hulu original event series 11.22.63, based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King and starring James Franco, to Canada. The series will make its two-hour premiere on Canada’s national English-language pay-TV network Super …

LONDON: The drama Ordinary Lies has been commissioned for a second season by BBC One, with RED Production Company signed on to produce six new hour-long episodes. The first season scored an average consolidated audience of more than 6 million …

NEW YORK: TV Drama's Mansha Daswani sat down with Crossing Lines stars Elizabeth Mitchell and Goran Visnjic, as well as executive producers Frank Spotnitz and Rola Bauer, to get the scoop on season three.   Two new series leads joined …

TOKYO: Pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW has picked up exclusive Japanese broadcast rights for Warner Bros. International Television’s drama series Blindspot. Blindspot will premiere in Japan on WOWOW in May 2016. The action-thriller series was also recently renewed by NBC for a …

EL SEGUNDO: The anthology drama series Full Circle has been renewed for a third season written by Jorge Zamacona (The Last Ship), with the ten new episodes set to air exclusively on Audience Network via DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse. Season …

LONDON: BBC has announced a slate of more than 35 hours of new drama, including a production of E.M. Forster’s classic novel Howards End. The four-part miniseries will be produced by Playground, in association with City Entertainment and KippSter Entertainment, …

NEW YORK: Syfy has ordered a second season of The Expanse, a science-fiction series that takes place 200 years in the future, from Alcon Television Group. The Expanse, which first debuted on Syfy last month, is based on the books …

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment has picked up a third season of the original drama series The Royals from Lionsgate and Universal Cable Productions. The scripted series follows the lives of the members of a fictional royal family living in modern-day England. …