The BBC has found their Charles Sobhraj. Tahar Rahim, who recently starred as FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan in Hulu's The Looming Tower, has signed on to play Sobhraj in the BBC One's eight episode limited series The Serpent. Netflix has also boarded as co-producer and will serves as the show's broadcaster outside of the UK. 
BBC One has set The Pale Horse as their next Agatha Christie adaptation. It follows in the footsteps of previous adaptations And Then There Were None, The Witness For The Prosecution, Ordeal By Innocence and The ABC Murders. 
Stormzy has joined the cast of BBC One's Malorie Blackman adaptation Noughts + Crosses in a guest starring role. He will play newspaper editor Kolawale, a character created for the TV series. "As a diehard fan of Malorie's novels, being a part of this important show is a dream come true", he said. 
Lily Dodsworth Evans (Genius), Kerri McLean (Electric Dreams), Sofia Oxenham (Grantchester), Vincent Regan (300), Peter Sullivan (Entebbe) and Freddie Wise (Maleficent 2) have joined the cast of BBC One's Poldark for its fifth and final season.