BBC America's breakout original scripted series Orphan Black is coming to and end. The network announced on Thursday that they had picked up the critically acclaimed genre series starring Tatiana Maslany for a ten episode fifth and final season. 
In what is a major casting coup, 24 and The Unit star Dennis Haysbert has been tapped for a starring role in Undercover, BBC One's six part drama series from Silk scribe Peter Moffatt which tells the story of the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. 
Colin Morgan (The Fall, Merlin) and Charlotte Spencer (Glue, Line Of Duty) have been set as the leads in The Living And The Dead, BBC One's six episode supernatural thriller from Life On Mars and Eternal Law creators Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham. 
Despite the change in ownership, co-producing UK dramas remains at the core of BBC America's drama strategy. The network has signed on to co-produce Peter Moffatt's BBC One drama Undercover, starring Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester; and BBC Three's just cast five-part drama Thirteen, which hails from up and coming writer Marnie Dickens. 
BBC America has renewed their flagship original drama series Orphan Black for a ten episode fourth season, the network announced on Thursday. The fourth season is slated to enter production later this year for a 2016 premiere. 
BBC Two has released the first image from their upcoming Ben Whishaw fronted drama series 'London Spy', which hails from Working Title Television, Child 44 author Tom Rob Smith and The Fall helmer Jakob Verbruggen. 