Dougray Scott has been tapped as the male lead in Batwoman, playing Batwoman’s father opposite Ruby Rose in the CW's drama pilot from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. In addition, Marcos Siega has come on board to direct and executive produce. He takes over for David Nutter, who has…

EXCLUSIVE: Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer have been set to lead an ensemble cast in the event thriller Departure. A Canada/UK co-production, the six-part drama will air on Canada's Global in 2019. Shaftesbury and Greenpoint Productions are producing in association with Corus Entertainment. Starlings Television…

Ben Hardy and Jessie Buckley are set to join Dougray Scott and Charles Dance in a BBC One adaptation of Wilkie Collins' psychological thriller The Woman in White. The 5×60 series, which has begun filming in Northern Ireland, is produced by Origin Pictures and is adapted by Fiona Seres. David Thompson exec produces…

Prepare to grab your London slang dictionary and turn the subtitles on. Following in the footsteps of film-to-television adaptations like Fargo comes Snatch, Crackle’s upcoming original scripted series based loosely on the 2000 Guy Ritchie-directed crime/comedy film of the same name. The first trailer has been set…

Tony Wood’s London-based Buccaneer Media is teaming with Irvine Welsh on the adaptation of the Scottish novelist’s Crime. This will be the first time that Welsh adapts one of his own books for television. Dougray Scott is attached to star in and exec produce the six-part drama. Buccaneer, maker of ITV and Netflix…

Wilson Bethel and Dougray Scott have joined the cast of Harley and the Davidsons, the six-hour Discovery Channel miniseries about the birth of the iconic motorcycle brand that premieres September 5. Bethel will play Ray Weishaar, a member of the Harley-Davidson “Wrecking Crew” who helped popularize the slang term…

DirecTV’s original anthology drama Full Circle has been picked up for a third season to air in 2016. Dougray Scott and Kim Raver are set for co-starring roles in the ensemble drama, whose third season is being written/executive produced by Jorge Zamacona. Following AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV, Season 3 will air on…

Mexico’s Grupo Televisa has greenlighted multiple English-language series that take advantage of the 1991 Mexican-Canadian tax treaty for scripted series. The first show under the new initiative is Duality, starring Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove), which debuts at MIPCOM. The plan is for each series to feature globally…

Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot Quantico. It revolves around a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. One will launch a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Scott, repped by…

Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives), Milauna Jackson (Blood Done Sign My Name) and Robson Green (Wire In The Blood) have been added to the cast of Cinemax‘s action drama Strike Back as it starts production on a 10-episode Season 3. (Watch the teaser below.) The trio joins returning cast members Philip Winchester…

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Dougray Scott is in negotiations to play the male lead opposite Famke Janssen in Netflix's new original series Hemlock Grove, from Eli Roth and Gaumont International TV. Written by Brian McGreevey and Lee Shipman based on McGreevy's upcoming goth horror novel, Hemlock Grove revolves around…

What's in a name? Well if the name is Adolph – and it’s what you plan to call your new baby – you can be sure there's a hornet's nest. That’s just the tip of the iceberg in Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s hit Parisien play Le Prénom (The Name) which Pathé is bringing to the bigscreen. I’ve learned…