Kristin Brzoznowski

SINGAPORE: HBO Asia has ordered an eight-episode second season of the original action fantasy series Halfworlds.

LONDON: Netflix has signed on as a co-production partner for the second season of the BBC Two drama The Last Kingdom, from Carnival Films.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL has signed a package deal with SBS in Australia for three dramas: The Five, Section Zéro and Baron Noir.

LOS ANGELES: The global rights for the new FX Productions and Marvel Television series Legion have been picked up by FOX Networks Group, which will debut the show day and date on its channels in more than 125 countries.

LONDON: UKTV and 20th Century Fox Television have signed a deal for the new medical crime drama Rosewood, to air on the Alibi channel in the U.K.

TORONTO: CraveTV has locked in deals with a number of Hollywood studios to bring new U.S. dramas such as Designated Survivor and Time After Time to the streaming service in Canada.

NEW YORK: Rachel Nelson, Corus Entertainment's director of original drama and factual content, talks about what’s driving the company's drama strategy and the balance she tries to maintain between original and acquired programming.

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has invested in Blueprint Television, a new U.K.-based production outfit focused on drama series.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: AMC and Sony Pictures Television are developing David Carr’s best-selling memoir The Night of the Gun as a six-part miniseries, with Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) attached to play the late New York Times columnist.

MUMBAI: Netflix is adapting the best-selling novel Sacred Games by Indian author Vikram Chandra as an original Hindi-English series.