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MIAMI: Telemundo has signed an exclusive contract with Mexican actress and singer Mariana Seoane that will see the performer star in the series El Chema.

NEW YORK: AMC has announced that the fourth season of Turn: Washington's Spies, set for 2017, will be its last.

NEW YORK: Producers Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe met with World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati to talk about Take Two and share what they were able to bring from their Castle experience to the new project.

BURBANK: Freeform has greenlit a pilot for The Deep, a drama set in a coastal town known for once being home to mermaids.

LONDON: Derek Wax, executive producer at Kudos, is setting up his own indie drama company, Wild Mercury, within Endemol Shine Group.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is teaming with John Wells Productions on a feature film inspired by Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the World’s Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer.

LONDON: BBC One has commissioned Age Before Beauty, a new contemporary drama set in a Manchester beauty salon, from Mainstreet Pictures and scribe Debbie Horsfield.

SAN DIEGO: Bryan Fuller revealed new details about the upcoming Star Trek series at Comic-Con International this weekend, including providing a first look at the new Starfleet ship, U.S.S. Discovery.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is to become the global streaming home, excluding Canada, for American Crime Story, following a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

SAN DIEGO: Netflix has given the go-ahead to a third season of Daredevil, the superhero series that launched the collaboration between the streaming service and Marvel.