EXCLUSIVE: ITV has given the green-light to Innocent, a four part thriller starring Hermione Norris (Spooks, In The Club) and Lee Ingleby (Inspector George Gently, The A Word) which hails from Unforgotten scribe Chris Lang, Matt Arlidge and their production company TXTV, TVWise has learned. 
After previously teasing the series with a short glimpse of Jenna Coleman in character as Queen Victoria, ITV has now released a full trailer for their upcoming eight episode royal drama Victoria, which is set to premiere this Autumn. The new trailer shows Victoria (Jenna Coleman) as she learns of the death of her father and faces the daunting prospect of ascending to the throne at a very young age. It also teases somehting of a show-down between the young monarch and her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell). ITV is adding to their factual entertainment slate. The commercial broadcaster has handed out a six episode series order to fact-ent format Celebrity Home Secrets, which hails from ITV Studios indie So Television and Sunnyside Productions, and will feature, amongst others, Janet Street-Porter and Duncan Bannatyne. 
ITV has commissioned sister company Potato to produce Devon And Cornwall Blues, a three-episode prime-time factual series following the activities of the Devon and Cornwall Police, TVWise has learned. 
International distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment has lined up the first deals for ITV's six-part murder mystery Loch Ness, mere weeks after it entered production in Scotland. 
After a months long search, ITV has found the lead actress for their Prime Suspect prequel series Tennison. Stefanie Martini, who is coming off of a starring role in NBC's upcoming The Wizard Of Oz series Emerald City, will take on the part of a Jane Tennison - the role played by Dame Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect between 1991 and 2006. Martini's previous credits include Doctor Thorne and Endeavour. 
Birds Of A Feather is returning to ITV. The commercial broadcaster has ordered an hour-long Christmas Special to air this December, which will be set overseas - making it the first Birds Of A Feather to be set outside the UK in some twenty years. ITV has given the green-light to Loch Ness, a six-part murder mystery thriller series from Stephen Brady and ITV Studios which is set against the back-drop of the iconic Scottish loch. Laura Fraser (Houdini & Doyle, The Missing), Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, Benidorm) and John Sessions (Upstart Crow, The Rack Pack) lead the cast of the series.