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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.

LONDON: BAFTA-nominated writer Jack Thorne has been tapped to adapt Philip Pullman’s hit His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy for BBC.

LONDON: SVOD service MUBI has added a half dozen international films to its offering, including I, Olga, which was the Panorama opener at this year's Berlinale.

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has given the go-ahead to a sixth season of its supernatural drama Grimm.

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Hulu has sealed a deal with Entertainment One (eOne) for the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to The Book of Negroes.