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STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has added to its catalog the new drama Bitter Sweet Life from Turkish producer Surec Film.

NEW YORK: A+E Networks has lined up broadcasters in more than 50 territories for the new military action drama SIX, which will debut on HISTORY in the U.S. in 2017.

LOS ANGELES: The Syfy original series Van Helsing has been renewed for a second season, with production on the 13 new episodes expected to begin in January 2017.

LONDON: Sid Gentle Films has acquired the rights for Elizabeth Jane Howard’s best-selling book series The Cazalet Chronicles.

CANNES: The biopic Mata Hari marks Star Media’s first production for the global market with original English dialogue.

BURBANK: At MIPCOM, Legendary Television Distribution is slated to showcase the new drama series The Looming Tower, based on the nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright about 9/11 and the secret war between the FBI and the CIA.

LONDON: Amazon and UFA Fiction have revealed that Deutschland 86, the second installment of the hit drama series Deutschland 83, is due to debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in Germany in 2018.

STOCKHOLM: MTG Studios is prepping the new series Veni Vidi Vici, working with the Nordic talents Thomas Bo Larsen, Rafael Edholm and Livia Millhagen together with Canadian actor Michael Wincott.

LOS ANGELES: Rose Leslie, star of Game of Thrones, has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS All Access spin-off of The Good Wife.

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered a full season of the action drama Lethal Weapon, picking up an additional five episodes.