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Playground, the producer of such dramas as Wolf Hall, has optioned the rights to David Enrich’s new narrative nonfiction book The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History.

SPI International/FilmBox Channels Group has acquired the worldwide rights for the weekly drama New Beginnings from Insignia Productions.

AMC has renewed the martial arts drama Into the Badlands for a third season, which has an expanded order for 16 episodes.

The show's co-creators talk about their approach to bringing Neil Gaiman’s book to life and how its core themes are more relevant today than ever.

Kit de Waal’s best-selling novel My Name is Leon has been optioned for TV by Sir Lenny Henry’s production company, Douglas Road Productions.

IM Global Television is working with Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David S. Goyer’s Phantom Four on The Black Company, based on Glen Cook’s fantasy book series.

Daniel Écija, one of the founders of Globomedia, has renewed his cooperation with the company for an additional five years and is creating his own unit to develop scripted projects.

STUDIOCANAL has secured the exclusive physical and digital transactional home-entertainment rights for American Gods.

Freeform has ordered a third season of its hit original saga Shadowhunters to air in 2018.

Filming begins today on The End of The F***ing World, a production for the U.K.'s E4 and Netflix.