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LONDON: Zodiak Rights has licensed the French drama The Disappearance (Disparue) to the U.K.’s BBC Four, among other broadcasters.

SÃO PAULO: The Globo telenovela Trail of Lies has landed in France, where it’s slated to debut on broadcaster France Ô.

LONDON: Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television are working together on an original drama series based on the short stories written by Philip K. Dick, with Bryan Cranston attached to star.

LOS ANGELES: From The Mark Gordon Company, Designated Survivor is a conspiracy thriller in the Entertainment One Television catalogue starring Kiefer Sutherland, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Natascha McElhone, Adan Canto and Italia Ricci.

MIAMI: W Studios, the newly created joint venture between Univision Communications Inc. and producer Patricio Wills, has slated the prime-time series The Pilot (La Piloto) as its first production.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Tim Matheson (The West Wing, Burn Notice) will star as the actor turned California governor turned president in National Geographic Channel’s two-hour scripted movie Killing Reagan, joined by Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) as first lady Nancy Reagan.

LOS ANGELES: CBS has given a full-season renewal for Criminal Minds to return in the 2016-17 TV season.

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has signed an agreement with producer Underground Producciones and Argentine network TV Pública to distribute the weekly crime drama The Marginal (El Marginal).

LONDON: Nicola Larder, co-creator of the ITV crime drama Marcella, has been named executive producer of development at U.K. production company Buccaneer Media.

SÃO PAULO: Mediaset España has signed on as co-producer of Globo’s first original production for the international market, the drama thriller Supermax.