Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: Producer Raffaella de Laurentiis has optioned the rights to adapt Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters book series for television.

LOS ANGELES: The international premiere of Outcast drew a record 26 million views across its linear broadcast on FOX outside of the U.S., in addition to its social media and online release.

LONDON: FOX UK has acquired the psychological thriller Wolf Creek, based on the feature film of the same name, from Zodiak Rights.

LONDON: Piers Wenger has been tapped as the new controller of BBC drama commissioning, after having served as head of drama at Channel 4 since 2012.

NEW YORK: A newly signed deal will see the upcoming anthology series The Terror premiere exclusively on AMC Global in territories across Europe and Latin America in 2017 within minutes of the U.S. broadcast on AMC.

LOS ANGELES: Wilmer Valderrama, whose TV credits include Grey’s Anatomy and That ’70s Show, has joined the cast of NCIS as a series regular.

LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has entered into a first-look deal with Smokehouse Pictures, founded by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and the first project under the new arrangement will be a drama series with Making a Murderer filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Lisa Katz has been appointed by NBC to the role of executive VP of drama development.

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.