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SILVER SPRING: Acorn TV has picked up the six-part thriller Jack Irish starring Guy Pearce for launch on its SVOD service this May.

NEW YORK: BBC America is gearing up to launch After the Black, a weekly series that will air after Orphan Black, delivering a behind-the-scenes look at the cult-hit show.

BEVERLY HILLS: Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s play The Dresser, starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, has been slated to premiere on Starz on May 30 at 9 p.m.

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has inked a multiyear, multi-series deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution that includes the exclusive streaming video-on-demand rights for Blindspot and Lucifer.

LOS ANGELES: Neil Cross (Luther) is adapting Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, the acclaimed books that begin with The Talented Mr. Ripley, as a series.

CANNES: Star Media’s Mata Hari is a 12-episode biographical drama about the life of the legendary woman Margaretha Zelle, better known to the world as Mata Hari.

BEVERLY HILLS: Sean Harris (The Borgias, Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation), Yetide Badaki (Aquarius, Masters of Sex) and Bruce Langley (Deadly Waters) have been cast as series regulars in the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel American Gods.

LONDON: Stan Lee's Lucky Man has been commissioned for a second season by Sky 1, which will air the season-one finale of the original British drama on Friday.

BURBANK: After 11 seasons as SSA Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds, Shemar Moore is exiting the hit CBS show.

NEW YORK: On the Tuesday of MIPTV, World Screen’s Anna Carugati will lead the panel Beyond the Hype: German Drama Series Going Global, featuring executives from ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, UFA Fiction and RAI Cinema.