Mansha Daswani

LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its second-season premiere, the critically acclaimed Lifetime series UnREAL has been given a third-season renewal for 2017.

Examines the super producers, franchises and reboots that all feature prominently on the fall grids of the U.S. broadcast networks, alongside several live productions and event miniseries.

Executive producers Mark Wolper and LeVar Burton and actress Anika Noni Rose offer up an inside look at the brand-new Roots.

NEW YORK: LeVar Burton, Anika Noni Rose and Mark Wolper sat down with World Screen Newsflash to give an inside look at A+E Networks's brand-new miniseries Roots.

Star Patrick Fugit, Executive Producer David Alpert and FOX International Studios’s Sharon Tal Yguado provide a behind-the-scenes look at the new exorcism drama Outcast.

Acquisition execs spent their Sunday before MIPTV at the JW Marriott in Cannes screening 12 new buzzy drama titles from across the globe.

SANTA MONICA: Skydance is developing the best-selling augmented reality comic series Faster Than Light for television.

SWANSEA: Bad Wolf, the production outfit founded by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner last year, has named Miles Ketley as its COO and made a trio of appointments to its creative team.

LONDON: Colin Callender's Playground has acquired the rights to adapt the novel The Widow by Fiona Barton and the nonfiction biography Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant.

CANNES: Executives from ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, UFA Fiction and RAI spoke about the power of German drama at home and abroad in a MIPTV panel this morning moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati.