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LONDON: Syfy channels outside of the U.S. are set to launch the hybrid VR short-form scripted series Halcyon on September 22.

ISTANBUL: Ten years since they last appeared in a TV series together, Turkish power couple Halit Ergenç and Berguzar Korel are set to star in a new drama on Kanal D.

NEW YORK: World Screen Newsflash's Mansha Daswani met with actor Patrick Fugit and Sharon Tal Yguado, the executive VP of global programming at FOX International Studios, to discuss the genesis of Outcast and some of the universal themes found within the series.

LOS ANGELES: CBS Television Studios has named Bryan Seabury as its new senior VP of drama development for broadcast and cable programming.

LOS ANGELES: The third season finale of Penny Dreadful marked the conclusion of the BAFTA-winning show on Showtime.

LONDON: ITV Encore has ordered a second season of The Frankenstein Chronicles, starring Sean Bean, from Rainmark Films.

TORONTO: Margaret Atwood's award-winning novel Alias Grace is being turned into a six-hour miniseries by Noreen Halpern's Halfire Entertainment for CBC and Netflix.

LONDON: Olivier Marchal's CANAL+ original thriller Section Zéro from EuropaCorp Television, Bad Company and Umedia has been acquired by Channel One in Russia.

LONDON: ITV has given the go-ahead to two additional films starring Rowan Atkinson as the French fictional detective Jules Maigret from the books by Georges Simenon.

LONDON/SILVER SPRING: The Agatha Christie 1925 short story The Witness For The Prosecution is to be adapted for BBC One, with Acorn Media Enterprises on board as the U.S. co-production partner.