Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: Roma Downey and LightWorkers Media (LWM) have licensed the rights for Karen Kingsbury’s The Baxter Family novel series for television.

LONDON: The new three-part drama Rillington Place, commissioned by BBC One, is based on the real-life murders that took place in Notting Hill in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

LONDON: ITV has commissioned a six-part drama, The Level, about a female detective who is leading a double life.

NASHVILLE: CMT is bringing the Tony Award-winning musical Million Dollar Quartet to TV as an eight-episode limited-run scripted drama.

LONDON: The all-new chapter of The X-Files debuted on FOX in 80 countries within 24 hours of its U.S. premiere, delivering more than 50 million viewers and setting ratings records in multiple markets.

WARSAW/LONDON: CBS Studios International has licensed the Showtime drama Billions to Series +, the VOD collection of digital platform nc+.

PARIS: The CANAL+ Creation Originale spy thriller series The Bureau, produced by TOP (The Oligarchs Productions) and co-produced by Federation Entertainment, has been selected to screen during this year’s Drama Series Days at Berlinale.

NEW YORK: Spike has aligned with Paramount Television and Universal Cable Productions to develop the drama series Pendergast, with Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) attached as an executive producer.

LONDON: Season two of the Arctic-set thriller Fortitude will see Dennis Quaid (Far from Heaven), Parminder Nagra (ER), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones), Robert Sheehan (Misfits) and Ken Stott (The Missing) join the cast.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Dick Wolf has inked a new overall deal with NBCUniversal that extends their relationship through 2020, coming as the network has renewed Law & Order: SVU and Chicago Med.