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QUEZON CITY: The hit Filipino drama La Promesa (Pangako Sa’yo), from ABS-CBN, has premiered on Peruvian television via PanAmericana.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL has placed Harlan Coben’s The Five with Radio-Canada, Canada’s national French public radio and television broadcaster, to be aired in the near future.

AMSTERDAM/MADRID: CBS Studios International (CBSSI) has closed a multi-season licensing deal with FOX Networks Group (FNG) Iberia for the exclusive basic pay-TV rights in Spain and Portugal to Bull and MacGyver, along with the exclusive basic TV rights in Spain for new mid-season series Doubt.

CANNES: Since launching the dramas The Break and Bordertown at MIPTV, Federation Entertainment reports that both titles have generated “a lot of interest” from global buyers.

BURBANK: The CW is developing a modernized reboot of the iconic prime-time soap Dynasty.

NEW YORK: FX has ordered a ten-episode first season of Snowfall, a drama series inspired by the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

SILVER SPRING: RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn TV has scheduled a November lineup that features the U.S. premiere of the Aussie series Deep Water, as well as the return of A Place to Call Home and Raised by Wolves, among other titles.

NEW YORK: Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) are set to star in the six-part thriller Liar from Two Brothers Pictures.

PREMIUM: Versailles' executive producers and writers Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft talk to World Screen Newsflash about how they crafted a bold, lavish series that examines the early years of the Sun King’s reign, the opulent palace he built, and the women in his life.

NEW YORK: Playground has promoted Scott Huff and Elyse Dolbec as part of the company’s strategy to expand its television activities in the U.S.