Mansha Daswani

LOS ANGELES: Paramount Television and Universal Cable Productions are developing Robert Heinlein’s 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land into a series for Syfy.

HONG KONG: The fantasy drama Goblin, marking the return of popular Korean actor Gong Yoo to television after four years, is set to air on Turner Asia Pacific's Oh!K channel.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM: Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe and Africa has secured the exclusive first-window rights to the new CBS series Bull in the U.K.

NEW YORK: BBC America has given the green light to an eight-episode thriller from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of Fleabag, and Sid Gentle Films.

NEW YORK: Skyhorse Publishing is planning to roll out two paperback novels tied to the first season of HISTORY's upcoming military drama SIX.

LOS ANGELES: Endemol Shine North America and Major TV are prepping a television adaptation of To Selena with Love, the best-selling book about the late Latin music star written by her husband, Chris Perez.

NEW YORK: AMC has inked a co-production deal with BBC Worldwide North America for Cuba Pictures' new original drama McMafia, commissioned by BBC One.

BURBANK: ABC's fall 2017 schedule will include a new series based on Marvel's Inhumans characters, with the first two episodes set to premiere in IMAX theaters ahead of the TV launch.

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POTSDAM: A two-part drama about Martin Luther, a seminal figure in the Reformation, is in the works from UFA Fiction for ZDF.