Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has strengthened its ties with Lookout Point, producer of such successful dramas as Ripper Street and Andrew Davies' adaptation of War and Peace, now taking a 49 percent stake in the company.

STOCKHOLM/MADRID: Eccho Rights is now handling worldwide distribution for La Casa Del Mar, one of the four finalists in the drama category for this year's International Emmy Awards.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has inked a deal with the Alfred Hitchcock Estate to develop Welcome to Hitchcock, a new original anthology series that will focus on a single season-long mystery or crime in the spirit of the iconic filmmaker’s style and legacy.

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has given a full-season order for 18 episodes of the freshman drama This Is Us.

LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has teamed up with Germany's Bavaria Fernsehproduktion and Sky Deutschland to co-produce and distribute the eight-episode series Das Boot.

LOS ANGELES: The fourth season of The Strain, set to air on FX in summer 2017, will be the show's last.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL is launching the Swedish-French drama Midnight Sun at MIPCOM.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Studios is developing the crime thriller Pendulum, from author and screenwriter Adam Hamdy, for television.

OTTAWA: CBC has commissioned the original 8x1-hour drama 21 Thunder from PMA Productions and Generic Productions.

MONTREAL: Production is now underway on the fourth and final season of Bravo's original Canadian drama 19-2.