A second series of the Balearic cop drama, The Mallorca Files, has been commissioned for BBC One Daytime and BBC iPlayer, as series one is confirmed for broadcast on Monday 25th November.
Filming has started on "Salisbury", a three-part factual drama for BBC Two written by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn and produced by Dancing Ledge Productions.
BBC Two has acquired ten-part series, The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book about the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s. The series focuses on how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11.
BBC Studios has announced a raft of international sales of Les Misérables, which is produced by Lookout Point and BBC Studios for BBC One and MASTERPIECE.
BBC One and Mammoth Screen have announced that Emmy and Bafta-winner Sean Bean will be joining the cast of the epic drama World On Fire by multi-award winning writer Peter Bowker.