Chelsea Regan

Acorn TV, a streaming service for British and international television in North America, has expanded its distribution with increased availability across additional platforms.

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.

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

The 59th Monte-Carlo Television Festival is set to feature Ricky Whittle (American Gods, The 100, Mistresses) as the president of the fiction jury for the Golden Nymph Awards.

Possession, a new thriller from Canal+ Creation Originale and yes TV, has commenced filming in Israel in French, Hebrew and English.

Dingdong Dantes has renewed his contract with GMA Network and is set to headline the Philippine adaptation of the Korean drama series Descendants of the Sun.

The CW Network has ordered sophomore seasons for All American, In the Dark and Roswell, New Mexico and a seventh season of The 100 for 2019-2020.

Timeless Drama Channel, the newest channel in the SPI International/FilmBox portfolio, has launched on the My-HD pay-TV service in the MENA region.