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NEW YORK: Titan Comics has inked a licensing deal with CBS Consumer Products and Showtime to publish an all-new comic prequel to the fantasy period drama Penny Dreadful. The first Penny Dreadful comic series is slated for release in spring 2016. …

SANTA MONICA: The Emmy-nominated Hulu original drama series East Los High has been picked up for a 12-episode fourth season. East Los High follows the experiences of teens attending a fictional inner-city high school in East Los Angeles. The show, produced …

ATLANTA: TNT has renewed the drama series The Librarians and Murder in the First for third seasons and Major Crimes for a fifth run. The fantasy-adventure The Librarians has been commissioned for a 15-episode third season that will kick off …

PARIS: The selection jury for the first-ever MIPDrama Screenings has been put in place, with six international creators and showrunners chosen to designate the 12 programs that will make up the showcase roster. The selection jury includes Teresa Fernández-Valdés and …

LOS ANGELES: FOX International Channels (FIC) has set a day-and-date release for the new chapter of The X-Files across more than 60 countries worldwide. FIC's FOX channels will debut the new six-episode event series immediately following the January 24 premiere …

TORONTO: CTV has ordered an 18-episode fifth season of the original medical drama series Saving Hope, with production slated to kick off in Toronto in spring 2016. Saving Hope centers on the lives of the doctors and nurses working at …

EDMONTON: Super Channel is bringing the nine-hour Hulu original event series 11.22.63, based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King and starring James Franco, to Canada. The series will make its two-hour premiere on Canada’s national English-language pay-TV network Super …

LONDON: The drama Ordinary Lies has been commissioned for a second season by BBC One, with RED Production Company signed on to produce six new hour-long episodes. The first season scored an average consolidated audience of more than 6 million …

NEW YORK: TV Drama's Mansha Daswani sat down with Crossing Lines stars Elizabeth Mitchell and Goran Visnjic, as well as executive producers Frank Spotnitz and Rola Bauer, to get the scoop on season three.   Two new series leads joined …

TOKYO: Pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW has picked up exclusive Japanese broadcast rights for Warner Bros. International Television’s drama series Blindspot. Blindspot will premiere in Japan on WOWOW in May 2016. The action-thriller series was also recently renewed by NBC for a …