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NEW YORK: VH1 has greenlit a scripted series inspired by Star Jones's 2011 book Satan's Sisters, set within the world of daytime television.

CULVER CITY: Crackle and Legendary Digital Media have started production on Dead Rising: Endgame, a sequel to Dead Rising: Watchtower.

LOS ANGELES: HBO has already renewed the Mick Jagger-Martin Scorsese drama Vinyl for a second season.

LOS ANGELES: Barbara Hall, the creator and executive producer of Madam Secretary, has secured a new two-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios.

LONDON: Filming has begun on a second season of the thriller The Missing for BBC One and Starz, with Tchéky Karyo returning as a series lead and David Morrissey and Keeley Hawes joining the cast.

NEW YORK: On the heels of the success of The Breaks this year, VH1 has greenlit a series based on the TV movie, set against the backdrop of the hip-hop business.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has signed a multiyear overall deal with writer Andy Parker, with work set to begin immediately on two projects.

BERLIN: A highlight of the second part of this year's Drama Series Days at the European Film Market (EFM) was the international CoPro Series pitching event, during which projects seeking co-production and financing partners were presented to a few hundred producers and broadcaster executives this morning in Berlin.

The company's head of European co-productions offers up insight into her strategy for making successful multi-country co-pros and her views on trends in the drama business today.

PARIS/BERLIN: An official project exchange between Series Mania and Berlinale will see the Canadian drama The Illegal being presented in Paris in April at the Co-Production Forum.