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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).

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered a third season of the hit drama Gotham, which is averaging 9 million total viewers across multiple platforms.

NEW YORK: AMC has given a third-season renewal to Better Call Saul, the Emmy-nominated prequel to Breaking Bad produced by Sony Pictures Television.

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has added the Turkish series Black Heart to its drama catalogue.

NEW YORK: SundanceTV has acquired the first two seasons of the acclaimed Italian crime drama Gomorrah from The Weinstein Company (TWC).

The showrunner discusses the reasons for the drama series' breakout success.

NEW YORK: Greg Yaitanes has been tapped by Spike TV and Skydance Television to serve as director and executive producer for the scripted series Red Mars.