Kristin Brzoznowski

TORONTO: The newly commissioned fifth season of Space's original series Orphan Black will be its last.

ATLANTA: Fresh off his acclaimed performance as attorney Johnnie Cochran in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Courtney B. Vance is among three new cast members added to the TNT drama pilot Civil.

BEVERLY HILLS: Orlando Jones (Madiba, Sleepy Hollow) has signed on for the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel American Gods.

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has acquired the exclusive subscription streaming rights for the event series Roots from A+E Networks, which also licensed the U.S. SVOD rights for War and Peace and Barbarians Rising to the service.

LONDON: ITV has commissioned the three-part true-crime drama Muncie (working title) from World Productions and Finlaggan Films.

LONDON: Number 9 Films, which is behind the Oscar-nominated movie Carol, is teaming up with RED Production Company for its first-ever TV project, an adaptation of Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady.

AMSTERDAM/LONDON: CBS Studios International (CBSSI) has placed the CBS summer event series American Gothic and BrainDead with Amazon Prime Video UK.

LONDON: Filming has started on the second season of the ITV drama Unforgotten, starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

NASHVILLE/SANTA MONICA: Nashville has found a new home for its fifth season, with CMT and Hulu striking a deal with Lionsgate and ABC Studios to bring the show back.

SHANGHAI: FOX Networks Group (FNG) Asia has clinched a deal with New Classic Media (NCM) for the exclusive rights to broadcast and distribute the drama series Ruyi’s Love in the Palace outside of mainland China.