BBC One has given the green-light to The Split, a multi-part drama series from The Hour scribe Abi Morgan and former Spooks executive producer Jane Featherstone which is set in the world of divorce lawyers. 
BBC One is re-teaming with Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio for The Bodyguard, a six episode thriller which focusses on the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of the Metropolitan Police Service's Protection Command (US readers, think the UK's version of the U.S. Secret Service). BBC One is adding to their drama slate with a multi-part adaptation of Malorie Blackman's novel Noughts & Crosses from Poldark indie Mammoth Screen. 
Line Of Duty - which is moving from BBC Two to BBC One - has tapped Thandie Newton (Rogue, The Slap) to play the new target of AC-12 in the show's upcoming fourth season. Other new cast additions include Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo) as Nick, Roz's husband; Jason Watkins (The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies) as Tim Ifield, the forensic co-ordinator Roz is in conflict with; and Royce Pierreson (Death In Paradise) as DC Jamie Desford, the newest addition to AC-12. 
The second season of BBC One's Poldark reboot will premiere on Sunday September 4th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
The second season of BBC One's military drama Our Girl will premiere on Wednesday September 7th at 9pm, it has been announced. BBC One has pacted with Agatha Christie Productions Ltd for seven further adaptation of classic Christie titles, TVWise has learned. The first project being pursued under this seven project commitment is Ordeal By Innocence. 
BBC One has ordered four-part natural history series Ingenious Animals, which hails from Twofour's Oxford Scientific Films.