ITV Studios' Eagle Eye Drama has secured the rights to adapt The Great Dictator, Barbara Cartland's biography by Matthew Sweet.

The Mark Gatiss U&alibi drama Bookish, distributed by PBS Distribution in North America and Beta Film internationally, has secured a third-season renewal and a Christmas special.

Channel 4 has renewed the detective drama Patience, produced by Eagle Eye Drama, for a third season.

ITV has commissioned a six-part police procedural from Eagle Eye Drama starring Richard Armitage and Annabel Scholey.