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BBC One Renews ‘Death In Paradise’ For Two More Seasons
BBC One has handed out a two season renewal to their long-running drama series Death In Paradise. With the pick up, which comes just as the show's eighth season wrapped its run, the Caribbean set crime drama will be back for a ninth and tenth season. 
Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid & Kris Marshall To Star In ITV’s Jane Austen Adaptation ‘Sanditon’
Anna Chancellor, Shelley Conn, Blake Harrison & More To Guest Star In ‘Death In Paradise’ Season 8
Anna Chancellor (Ordeal by Innocence), Shelley Conn (Liar), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Richard Blackwood (EastEnders) and Chizzy Akudolu (Holby City) are amongst the guest stars lined up for the eighth season of Death In Paradise, which is set to premiere on BBC One on Thursday January 10th at 9pm. Red Planet Pictures & ITV Announce Devin Doyle As Red Planet Prize Winner
Red Planet Pictures and ITV have announced Dublin-based Devin Doyle as the winner of this year's Red Planet Prize - the talent discovery initiative that was launched by Tony Jordan's indie a decade ago to find writers that can create fresh, original and inspiring popular dram. As the winner, Doyle will get a script commission and development opportunities with ITV for his family drama Devoted Wife And Mother. It tells the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down when her debt dealing husband is kidnapped with a 500k ransom deadline for 5pm that day. ITV Orders Jane Austen Adaptation ‘Sanditon’ From Andrew Davies & Red Planet Pictures
ITV has given the greenlight to Sanditon, an adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel that was written only months before Austen’s death in 1817. Andrew Davies, the award winning scribe behind House Of Cards and War & Peace is penning the adaptation. Danny John-Jules To Exit BBC One’s ‘Death In Paradise’, Shyko Amos Set As New Series Regular
BBC One and Red Planet Pictures are shaking up the cast of Death In Paradise. Original cast member Danny John-Jules, who plays Officer Dwayne Myers, is exiting the Caribbean-set murder mystery drama after seven seasons. Additionally, Shyko Amos (A Very English Scandal) is joining the cast as a series regular for season eight. Red Planet Pictures Developing ‘Three Things About Elsie’ Adaptation & Drag Queen Comedy ‘Denim’
Red Planet Pictures is adding two titles to their development slate. The indie has optioned the rights to Joanna Cannon’s second novel Three Things About Elsie, with plans to adapt it as a serial drama. The second project, Denim, is a dramedy about a drag queen girlband.