Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: Marc Elliott, best known for his role as Syed Masood in EastEnders, has joined the cast of BBC One’s long-running medical drama Holby City.

LONDON: Ahead of filming on the third and final season of Broadchurch, new cast members have been announced to join David Tennant and Olivia Colman.

LONDON: Irish actors Fionnula Flanagan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ian McElhinney, Angeline Ball, Peter Campion and Stanley Townsend are joining Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie for the brand-new six-part drama series Redwater, a spin-off of EastEnders.

NEW YORK: Production has started on the fourth and final season of SundanceTV's Rectify, which will feature as new cast members Nathan Darrow (House of Cards, Gotham) and Scott Lawrence (Avatar, Getting On).

LONDON: Filming has begun in South Africa on a Call the Midwife Christmas special for 2016, alongside eight new episodes of the series to come in 2017.

LOS ANGELES: Esquire Network has given a season-two pickup to Spotless, which was the channel’s first original scripted series.

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Hulu has sealed a deal with Entertainment One (eOne) for the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to The Book of Negroes.

CANNES: Keshet International has licensed the BBC One drama The A Word, which debuted in Cannes this week as one of the MIPDrama Screenings selections, to Swedish pubcaster SVT.

SYDNEY: Mam Tor Productions will serve as the British production house for The Art of Killing, a psychological thriller from Aussie outfit Escapade Media.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has invested in new production company Mad Rabbit, which will specialize in high-end drama.