Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: Carnival Films, producer of such hit dramas as Downton Abbey, has appointed Joanna Strevens as its new head of development.

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has given the freshman drama Timeless a full-season order of 16 episodes, airing in the Monday 10 p.m. slot.

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Amybeth McNulty has been cast in the lead role of Anne Shirley in the new Netflix and CBC series Anne, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic novel Anne of Green Gables.

LONDON: ITV's upcoming four-part drama Little Boy Blue will recreate the moment when the parents and brother of Rhys Jones lined up in front of the crowd at Goodison Park to pay tribute to the murdered 11-year-old schoolboy.

LOS ANGELES: The final season of the long-running series Bones will premiere on FOX on January 3, starting a 12-episode run that will bring its story to an end.

LONDON: Netflix has ordered a first season of the Scandinavian thriller The Rain from Miso Film.

LONDON: Chris Fry, a producer on Humans, is joining Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures as an executive producer.

NEW YORK: Weinstein Television's event series Waco, starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch, has been picked up by Spike TV.

MONTREAL: Quebecor Content has secured a licensing deal with Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution to bring the series Shooter to its audiences in Québec.

MONTREAL: Principal photography has begun on Incendo's new thriller Sometimes the Good Kill, which stars Susie Abromeit (Marvel’s Diving Normal, A Perfect Christmas).