Americans invade Brit TV

Movie actors doing TV, TV actors doing movies ... sometimes you wake up and you're not even sure what you're watching on TV any more. Now comes the latest trend, American actors doing British TV. The British studio ITV has announced that Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt will head the cast of its anticipated World War II drama World on Fire. ITV is producing the series for the BBC but the casting announcement comes on the eve of Mipcom, and will no doubt be a strategic move to help sell the series to international buyers. The project, from writer Peter Bowker, will also star Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown. Production is underway in Prague and will move to Manchester, London, Paris and Berlin.

Netflix's nightmare viewing

It was a case of "Netflix and chills" in New York this week as the streamcaster took two huge horror titles to New York Comic-Con: The Haunting of Hill House and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Both series were big draws for the convention, along with a new FX vampire drama What We Do in the Shadows. Horror is back, clearly. Though they share a name, New York Comic-Con is not connected to Comic-Con International, the not-for-profit pop culture convention held in San Diego each July. New York Comic-Con is staged annually in October by Reed Exhibitions at the Javits Convention Centre and Madison Square Gardens in New York. Ticket sales for the four-day event were expected to hit 250,000 this year.