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LONDON: Ahead of filming on the third and final season of Broadchurch, new cast members have been announced to join David Tennant and Olivia Colman.

LONDON: Irish actors Fionnula Flanagan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ian McElhinney, Angeline Ball, Peter Campion and Stanley Townsend are joining Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie for the brand-new six-part drama series Redwater, a spin-off of EastEnders.

NEW YORK: Production has started on the fourth and final season of SundanceTV's Rectify, which will feature as new cast members Nathan Darrow (House of Cards, Gotham) and Scott Lawrence (Avatar, Getting On).

SILVER SPRING: RLJ Entertainment's Acorn has acquired the electronic-sell-through (EST) and home-video rights in North America for the crime drama The Last Panthers in a deal with Sky Vision.

SANTA MONICA: Skydance is developing the best-selling augmented reality comic series Faster Than Light for television.

SWANSEA: Bad Wolf, the production outfit founded by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner last year, has named Miles Ketley as its COO and made a trio of appointments to its creative team.

LONDON: Filming has begun in South Africa on a Call the Midwife Christmas special for 2016, alongside eight new episodes of the series to come in 2017.

LONDON: Colin Callender's Playground has acquired the rights to adapt the novel The Widow by Fiona Barton and the nonfiction biography Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant.

LOS ANGELES: Esquire Network has given a season-two pickup to Spotless, which was the channel’s first original scripted series.

STOCKHOLM: Farang, a new thriller series starring Ola Rapace (Skyfall, Wallander), is slated for broadcast on C More in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.