Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: Filming is about to begin on the third season of Grantchester, with James Norton and Robson Green reprising their roles as the 1950s crime-fighting duo of Vicar Sidney Chambers and Police Inspector Geordie Keating.

LOS ANGELES: Netflix has come on board the BBC America series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency as a co-producer and will stream the show outside the U.S.

LONDON: The BAFTA Award-winning writer Kay Mellor is working on a new six-part drama for BBC One titled Love, Lies and Records.

SANTA MONICA: Marvel Television and Hulu are adapting the Runaways comics as a series for the streaming service.

TORONTO: Anna Paquin (True Blood, Roots) has signed on to play Nancy Montgomery in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, which is being produced for CBC and Netflix.

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime has ordered a pilot for A Midsummer's Nightmare, the first season of an anthology series inspired by the works of Shakespeare with a modern-day twist.

NEW YORK: USA Network has picked up a third season of its original drama Mr. Robot, which is currently airing with all-new episodes on Wednesdays.

LONDON: FremantleMedia International and IMG have locked in the first distribution deal for Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope, one that will bring the ten-part drama across Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shine) has been cast in National Geographic Channel’s upcoming global anthology series Genius.

LONDON: ITV has commissioned a new six-part drama, Fearless, which is written by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson and produced by Mammoth Screen.