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An international thriller about the murder of an environmentalist and the fight over natural resources in the Canadian Arctic is headed to CBC-TV. The Council will debut with 10 episodes in the fall. The show is from Emmy Award-winning showrunner and writer Rene Balcer of Law & Order fame, and Lark Productions and Keston International Productions. Shooting will take place in Resolute, Iqaluit, London, Copenhagen and Manitoba this summer.

AMC and Sony Pictures Television have renewed Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul for a third season. The order calls for 10 more episodes of the series, which takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill, the small-time lawyer who will go on to become morally bankrupt attorney Saul Goodman.

A coroner’s official says the death of keyboardist Keith Emerson, co-founder of the seminal progressive rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has been ruled a suicide. An autopsy showed Emerson shot himself in the head. There were also signs the 71-year-old had a heart condition.

Sylvia Anderson, the co-creator of the cult classic science fiction TV puppet show Thunderbirds, has died at 88. She created the series about a high-tech rescue squad operating from a secret island with her late former husband Gerry Anderson.

Justin Bieber has settled a lawsuit by a photographer who accused the singer of kicking and punching him outside a Southern California shopping centre in 2012. A trial had been scheduled to start Wednesday. Star staff, wire services