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Miss Scarlet will return for a sixth season with Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light) once again reprising her role as the title character.

The series will begin filming this month in Belgrade, Serbia. Other members of the returning cast include Tom Durant-Pritchard as Di Alexander Blake, Cathy Belton as Ivy, Paul Bazely as Clarence, Simon Ludders as Mr. Potts, Tim Chipping as Detective Phelps, and Ansu Kabia as Moses.

Joining the cast for the new season are Sam Buchanan as Detective George Willows, who joins Scotland Yard after rising through the police ranks. Grace Hogg-Robinson will play Isabel Summers, an ambitious young woman who joins the Clerical Office alongside Ivy.

Here’s the official logline for season six: “As Eliza and Blake’s once-fraught relationship begins to evolve, they find that working together may be a tricky prospect. Meanwhile, newlyweds Ivy and Potts adjust to married life,...

Big change on Masterpiece’s popular drama Miss Scarlet and the Duke.

Stuart Martin, who played William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will not return for season 5. Kate Phillips will return as Miss Eliza Scarlet for a fifth season of investigations, and the series will be retitled Miss Scarlet.

“It has been such an incredible joy to bring Duke to life through Rachael’s beautiful, brilliant writing, and to get to play him for the past four years,” said Martin in a statement. “But it felt like the time was right for Scarlet to explore new stories and challenges for now, as the show continues to grow and evolve. I will miss working with my amazing partner in crime Kate and the rest of our brilliant family and team, but I’m excited to continue following Eliza and her escapades as a huge fan and newly enrolled Scarleteer!

In today’s Global Bulletin, Sky picks up hundreds of hours of Studiocanal feature film content; Banijay aims to raise domestic abuse awareness; GoQuest Media picks pair of Serbian drama series; Oble finds a home on Viu Middle East for “The Outbreak”; Abacus Media Rights snags Kate Beckinsale-narrated dog show doc; Walter Presents acquires three French Canadian series; and Eccho Rights sends a slate of Korean dramas to upstart Turkish streamer Exxen.

Film

Sky and Studiocanal have closed a deal that will see the French production outfit’s upcoming feature film slate, as well as a raft of films from the company’s catalog, made available across Sky’s services including Sky Q and to Now TV customers who have Cinema Pass.

Included in the deal are “Supernova,” starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci; “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” the feature adaptation of JoJo Moyes’ popular novel; “Gunpowder Milkshake,...

Moscow -- The Kiev International Film Festival Molodist, which came to a close Sunday in the Ukrainian capital, saw this year's Grand Prix shared by Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" and the Russian film "Shultes," by Bakur Bakuradze.

The international jury, headed by U.S. actor Armand Assante, awarded them with Scythian Deer statuettes and cash prizes of $10,000 each during the closing ceremony.

Separately, the prize for best first feature was awarded to Serbia's "Huddersfield" by Ivan Zivkovic, while Switzerland's Tobias Nolle collected the best short-film prize for "Rene" and Bulgaria's Ilian Metev was awarded the best student film nod for "Goleshovo."

The festival's Fipresci jury honored "Versailles" by French director Pierre Scholler and the ecumenical jury gave its prize to Makhmalbaf's "Buddha." The audience award went to the French short "Hold On" by Damien Roussineau.

The 38th edition of the festival, which focuses on young filmmakers,...