NBCU’s SVOD Service Hayu To Launch On Apple TV, Adds Offline Viewing
Hayu is expanding its reach after NBCUniversal International agreed a deal to launch the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service on Apple TV in Q4 2016. Additionally, around the same time it launches on Apple TV, Hayu will also be adding an offline viewing functionality, allowing subscribers to download episodes to view later. 
David Suchet (Agatha Christie's Poirot) has signed on as the narrator for BBC One's Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a special adaptation of the theatre production from Mischief Theatre which is set to air this Christmas. Suchet, who is coming off of a starring role in BBC Two's Decline And Fall, will appear on-screen as the narrator who finds himself caught up in the mayhem.
Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to Black Lightning, an hour-long drama based on the DC Comics characters, which hails from super-producer Greg Berlanti.
TNT is doubling-down on The Last Ship.
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Pulse Films is expanding their unscripted division. The indie is drilling down on creating more innovative and culturally relevant content for the UK, US and other international markets. To that end, Emma Cooper has been promoted to lead the growing division as Managing Director, UK; succeeding Roy Ackerman who is exiting the company after 15 months.
The Sinner, an hour-long crime drama starring Jessica Biel, has snagged a pilot order at USA Network. It joins a pilot slate at the network that includes Tony Tost's period drama Damnation and Skull and Bones drama The Tap, starring Colin Woodell (Masters Of Sex) and Erinn Westbrook (Glee).
ITV has released a trailer for their six episode police drama The Level, which is set to premiere later this month. The Level is set in Brighton and follows Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin, who has a secret double life. Her exemplary police career masks a covert attachment to shady businessman and drugs trafficker, Frank Le Saux.
After previously releasing two teaser shots, BBC Two has released three new teaser images from the upcoming third and final season of psychological thriller The Fall, which is set to premiere later this month. These new images, which were released ahead of a screening of the season three premiere episode at BFI tonight, show Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson in character as Paul Spector and Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson. One such image shows Gibson and the reflected image of Spector in a hospital room.