5USA is adding two U.S. scripted dramas to their slate. The Channel 5 owned digi-net has agreed separate deals with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution and NBCUniversal Television Distribution for first run rights to CBS' short-lived Training Day reboot and free-to-air rights to NBC's Taken prequel series. 
The second season of NBC's drama series Taken will receive its UK premiere on Amazon Prime Video UK tomorrow (Saturday January 13th), it has been announced. New episodes will continue to be made available every Saturday, less than 24 hours after they initially air on NBC in the United States. 
Ahead of a slew of new series orders, NBC is making calls on some of their bubble shows. The network has started down that path by handing out a second season renewal to their Taken prequel series for an expanded second season of sixteen episodes. NBC's Taken prequel series will receive its UK premiere on Amazon Prime Video UK on Tuesday February 28th, it has been announced. New episodes will continue to be made available to Prime members every Tuesday, less than 24 hours after they initially air on NBC in the United States. Amazon Prime Video has closed a deal with NBCUniversal International Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to Taken, NBC's ten episode drama series which is a prequel to the Liam Neeson feature film franchise of the same name, TVWise has learned. 
Taken is heading to TV. NBC had handed out a straight-to-series order to an hour-long drama based on Luc Besson's feature film series of the same name starring Liam Neeson. The TV series is being described as a prequel rather than a reboot and will be set several years before the events of the first film.