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Internet TV
- Bill Bellamy joins Netflix’s Madam CJ Walker
French TV
- France 3 green lights: murder-mystery telefilm Le canal des secrets (The Canal of Secrets), with Annelise Hesme, Aurélien Wilk et al
UK TV
- Walter Presents acquires: C More/TV4 (Sweden)’s Sthlm Rekviem (Stockholm Requiem)
- Sky to launch Sky Comedy and Sky Crime channels, acquires NBC (US)’s AP Bio and Sunnyside
- BBC Two renews: There She Goes…
- …green lights: relationships and biology sitcom with Sarah Pascoe…
- …and Bolton wild-child sitcom pilot Alma’s Not Normal, with Sophie Willan
- BBC Four green lights: Christmas ghost story Martin’s Close with Peter Capaldi
- Channel 5 green lights: adaptations of Kate O’Riordan’s Penance and Susan Hill’s The Small Hand
- Sky Atlantic green lights: hacked former star’s phone drama I Hate Suzie, with Billie Piper
US TV show casting
- Bianca Santos to recur on The CW’s Legacies
- Karen Pittman to recur on Paramount’s Yellowstone
- Yasha Jackson and Garrett Wareing to recur on NBC’s Manifest
New US TV shows
- Scott Rudin developing: adaptation of BBC Two’s Mum
- Starz green lights: pilot of depression-possession horror comedy Shining Vale
- UCP developing: anthology adaptation of Ann Shen’s Bad Girls Throughout History
New US TV show casting
- Sam Littlefield to recur on The CW’s Batwoman
- Laura Bell Bundy to recur on NBC’s Perfect Harmony
