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LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment is bringing more than 50 hours of returning scripted series to MIPTV, alongside brand-new highlights, led by Victoria.

LONDON: BBC Four is set to broadcast the "immersive opera" The Passion, which is being performed in Manchester on Good Friday and Easter Saturday.

LOS ANGELES: FOX's upcoming event series Shots Fired has cast Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss and Stephen Moyer in lead roles.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide is scheduled to premiere its new drama The Collection at MIPTV with a screening attended by cast members Tom Riley, Mamie Gummer and Irène Jacob.

LONDON: Spike UK has slated a new police drama, Powers, starring Eddie Izzard and based on a graphic novel of the same name.

NEW YORK/TORONTO: Vikings has been renewed for a 20-episode fifth season, which will see Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) joining the cast.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has teamed up with Hypnotic to develop The Increment, based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name written by David Ignatius, with Gideon Raff (Homeland) set to write and direct the series.

NEW YORK: World Screen Newsflash met with the stars of The Five, Sarah Solemani, Tom Cullen, O-T Fagbenle and Lee Ingleby, who talk about their characters and their experiences working on the drama.

LOS ANGELES: Feeln, the SVOD service and subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, is slated to produce the original scripted drama The Eleventh.

OTTAWA: CBC is moving forward on The Council (working title), a thriller set within a remote Canadian Arctic town from Emmy Award-winning showrunner and writer René Balcer (Law & Order: Criminal Intent).