Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: SundanceTV has picked up a second season of The A Word from Keshet International.

AUCKLAND: The futuristic drama Cleverman has been picked up by TVNZ to air across New Zealand.

BEVERLY HILLS: The fourth season of the Starz original series Black Sails will be its last, with the final ten-episode run set for 2017.

NEW YORK: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is developing Muscle Beach, which USA Network has picked up as a prospective original hour-long drama.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Networks has acquired Loch Ness from ITV Studios Global Entertainment for the crime and suspense channel 13th Street, which will air the six-parter in France, Spain, Germany and Poland.

LONDON: Andrew Davies is adapting Victor Hugo's Les Misérables as a six-part miniseries, which will be a BBC Studios and Lookout Point co-production for BBC One in association with Weinstein Television.

HOLLYWOOD: Paramount Television and The Ink Factory are developing John le Carré’s novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold as a limited event series.

BEVERLY HILLS: Starz has greenlit its original series Power for fourth and fifth seasons.

WASHINGTON, D.C./LONDON: Channel 4 and National Geographic Channel are teaming up for the first time on a four-part drama from Wolf Hall's Peter Kosminsky.

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has acquired a minority interest in the Swedish production company Palladium Fiction.