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Castle Rock, the new J.J. Abrams drama for Hulu inspired by characters and settings from the Stephen King universe, has been licensed to Bell Media by Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.

Jane Austen's unfinished final novel, Sanditon, is being developed into a series by Andrew Davies and Red Planet Pictures for ITV and PBS Masterpiece.

Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo have joined the cast of Central Park Five, a limited series that Ava DuVernay is writing and directing for Netflix.

Turkish pay-TV platform Digiturk has licensed CBS Studios International's entire 2018-19 fall slate, which includes the Dick Wolf procedural FBI, the Charmed reboot and Showtime's Escape at Dannemora.

Ghoul, Netflix's first original horror series from India, is set to roll out on the platform globally on August 24.

Eccho Rights has licensed the Ay Yapim-produced drama Stiletto Vendetta to Mega in Chile.

Essential Media Group, the producer of Australian dramas Rake and Doctor Doctor, has set up a new division focused on premium international scripted content.

Elisa Viihde in Finland has commissioned Sphere of Shadows (Nyrkki), a 1950s-set spy thriller.

Netflix has ordered an original series from Mexico, Monarca, produced by Salma Hayek’s company, Ventanarosa.

The 12-part crime thriller Besa, from Tony Jordan (EastEnders, Life on Mars, Dickensian), has assembled a team of international talent from Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Slovenia and France.