World Screen

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. …

LOS ANGELES: After 13 seasons on the hit CBS procedural NCIS, Michael Weatherly has decided to exit the show. Weatherly, who plays Special Agent Tony DiNozzo, will make his final appearance at the end of this season. “After 13 years …

BEVERLY HILLS: Adding another original series to its lineup, Netflix has ordered ten episodes of the psychological thriller Gypsy from Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa Rubin. The show will become available to Netflix members across the globe in …

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has picked up the exclusive SVOD rights for the A+E Studios-produced breakout drama series UnREAL. All episodes from the freshman season of UnREAL will begin streaming through Hulu’s No Commercials and Limited Commercials plans on February 3. …