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Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight Working on New BBC One Drama
 BBC One has commissioned a new drama series based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book SAS: Rogue Heroes, to be adapted by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo, A Christmas Carol).
SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the story of how the world’s most renowned and ruthless Special Forces unit, the SAS, came to exist. It will tell the story behind the revolutionary thinking that led to the creation of a new form of combat and warfare in the deserts of North Africa.
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HBO & Survios Pact for Westworld VR Experience
 HBO has partnered with the interactive content studio Survios to launch a new virtual-reality game based on its Westworld TV series.
The game, called Westworld Awakening, is set during the series’ second season and inserts players into a meticulously crafted world of adventure, danger and fantasy. It is now live in more than 400 VR arcades and available for download via Steam, Oculus and VIVEPORT in English in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, South Korea and China (arcades only).
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GMA Dramas Airing Across Southeast Asia
 GMA Worldwide has lined up deals with broadcasters across Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam for Filipino dramas such as Legally Blind and Beautiful Strangers.
In Malaysia, the GMA drama Legally Blind has been airing on the free-TV channel TV3 Malaysia. Starring Janine Gutierrez, the series is about a blind lawyer seeking justice after she became a victim of rape. Legally Blind is also being aired in Vietnam through Vietnam Television’s cable division Saigon Tourist Cable Television Company (SCTV) on SCTV17.
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ATV – Lifeline
 (Drama, 69x45 min., S2 ongoing) Sold to a businessman as a child bride, Nefes suffers at the hands of her husband’s abuse.
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Dynamic Television – Van Helsing
 (Sci-fi, 13x52 min.) After a catastrophic volcano eruption, the last remaining underground vampires rise. Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of the legendary line of vampire hunters, awakens from a coma to discover that she’s not only immune to vampires.
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Caracol Internacional – The Queen of Flow
 (Telenovela, 82x60 min.) The story of Yeimy Montoya, a talented young woman in a New York prison, who seeks to take revenge against all those who destroyed her life.
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The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo
The showrunner of AMC's The Terror: Infamy on fusing Japanese folklore with real-world history.
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