The eighth and final season of Showtime’s drama series Dexter will receive its UK premiere on FOX on Sunday July 7th at 9pm, it has been announced.

Based on the novels by Jeff Lindsay and developed for television by James Manos Jr, Dexter follows the eponymous character who is a complicated and conflicted blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department who moonlights as a serial killer. The drama series is produced by Showtime Originals and stars Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas and James Remar. In the opening episode of the show’s eighth season, titled A Beautiful Day, six months have passed since LaGuerta’s murder and Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother, and serial killer. Deb, on the other hand, is struggling to deal with the consequences of her actions. While a mysterious woman comes to work with Miami Metro, offering first-hand information on Dexter’s past.

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The first season of Canadian drama series Motive will receive its UK premiere on Universal Channel on Thursday June 13th at 9pm, it has been announced.

Created by Daniel Cerone, Motive follows Vancouver homicide detective Angie Flynn on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. The series follows both Flynn and her team and the killer, giving the audience the opportunity to delve inside the mind of a criminal and understand their motive. The series is produced Foundation Features & Lark Productions in association with Bell Media and stars Kristin Lehman (The Killing), Louis Ferreira (Stargate Universe), Lauren Holly (NCIS), Roger Cross (24), Brendan Penny (The Assistants) and Cameron Bright (Twilight).

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A&E’s mini-series Coma will receive its UK premiere on Channel 5 on Thursday June 6th at 9pm, it has been announced.

Coma, a modern day retelling of the bestselling novel by Robin Cook and based on the film by Michael Crichton, is about a young doctor who discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Starring in the four hour mini-series is Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis, James Woods, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Dreyfuss. Coma also stars James Rebhorn, Joe Morton, Michael Weston and Joseph Mazello. The two part mini-series was produced by Sony Pictures Television, with Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, David W. Zucker, Martin Erlichman and Mikael Salomon serving as exeuctive producers. Emmy Award winner Mikael Salomon directed the skein, which was written by John J. McLaughlin.

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Hat Trick Productions’ YouTube channel Bad Teeth and Plum Pictures have announced a new internet show titled Man On Couch, which promises to attempt a feat which has never before been achieved – namely, a live stream which will run every second of every day for at least a week. Man On Couch will premiere on Bad Teeth from Monday May 27th. The series is being co-produced by Spirit Digital Media.

Man On Couch will feature one man who will be forced to live in an empty room, on a couch, with no windows for a week. He will not be able to leave the room and must use his laptop to bring the world to him, including entertainment, clothing and sustenance. This man is Rory Barker, James May’s charismatic but feckless side kick. He will have nothing to do, nothing to eat and no-one to talk to. He must persuade the people of the world to get involved. It will be a battle for survival as he barters with viewers and celebrities for the basics of life, from food and water to warm clothes – and of course anything he can lay his hands on to stave off the inevitable boredom of 24 hours a day in his own company with only the occasional visitor. The show will feature cameos from James May, Gok Wan, Jolyon Rubinstein, Heydon Prowse and other celebrities. A psychologist will also be on hand to monitor Rory’s mental and physical decline. However, one of the real twists here is that Rory’s fate is not in his own hands. If he gets a million unique views in the first week, he will have to stay another week and each week there will be a target which, if beaten, will extend the show.

“I initially wanted it to be ‘monkey on couch’ but was told they were to expensive and too demanding. Luckily Rory is neither”, said Will Daws, Creative Director of Plum Pictures, who had the original idea for the show.

Peter Cowley, Chief Executive Officer of Spirit Digital Media, commented: “Spirit Media are very excited to be the co-producing partner for this innovative YouTube project.”

While Rory Barker added: “Man on Couch sounds like a great idea and I’m bloody delighted to get the chance to live in one room for an entire week. Well, not delighted, but a man’s got to eat. Hopefully I’ll meet loads of people both in my room as well as on the worldwide web, and I hope to learn a plethora of skills and come out a week later as a better, albeit slightly paler person.”

Global video-on- demand (VOD) service Viewster has inked deals with All3Media, KBS Media, Shine Group and Starz Digital Media for a wealth of new programming, which comprises over 240 hours of new content. The deal for this new content, which is targeted at young audiences, ensures that such TV titles as BBC One’s Mayday, Channel 4′s Skins (an exclusive title in Germany and Australia) and E4′s Beaver Falls will be made available in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The deal also covers a number of premiere titles for the UK. Per their agreement with Starz Digital Media, Starz Original Series’ Head Case, Gravity and Hollywood Residential will be made available to UK audiences for the first time via Viewster. Those series will also be available to Viewster users in Australia. In addition, owing to their deals with both Shine and All3Media, Viewster will bring British series Beaver Falls, Fresh Meat, Mayday, Moving Wallpaper and Skins to audiences in the United States, German speaking countries, France and Australia. Finally, Vieswter’s deal with KBS Media will bring a number of South Korean dramas, including Boys Over Flowers, to audiences in the United States.

Speaking of these content deals, Kai Henniges, Chief Executive Officer of Viewster, said: “We are making a significant new investment in content that we can provide on an ad-supported basis and that is also attractive to our young and growing audience across the globe that prefers on-demand over appointment viewing.”

There was no substantial week two drop off for BBC Two’s The Fall. The drama series managed to pull in 3.4 million viewers and a 15% share. With those figures the series was able to, once again, beat off the competition and rank as the highest rating programme of the hour; winning the 9pm slot.

Last nights figures for The Fall are down by a mere 100 000 viewers on last week’s series premiere of 3.5 million viewers, marking a minimal drop off of 3%. The lack of a substantial drop off is good news for the series. Most new dramas, especially ones with such high pedigree casts and violent subject matter, rate well in their openers but see a drop off in viewership due to the so-called curiosity factor. The strong audience retention in week 2 will likely be on the minds of BBC execs as they decide whether or not to commission a second season (more on developments on that front here).

Elsewhere on Monday night at 9pm, Panorama’s special investigation into the Hillsborough disaster on BBC One pulled in 2.8 million viewers and an 12% share; ITV’s Vicious pulled in 2.6 million viewers and a 11% share at 9pm, while The Job Lot attracted 1.9 million viewers and a 8% share at 9:30pm; the second episode of Channel 4′s documentary series Skint pulled in 2.7 million viewers and a 11% share; and a special showing of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on Channel 5 averaged 1.8 million viewers and a 8% share.

EXCLUSIVE: As they head into the LA Screenings, BSkyB are calling time on one of their acquisitions. I’ve confirmed that Sky Living has opted not to acquire any subsequent seasons of MTV’s drama series Teen Wolf from MGM Television, leaving the series without a UK broadcaster.

The move comes as Sky Living Controller Antonia Hurford-Jones, Sky’s Director of Entertainment Stuart Murphy and others from BSkyB are in Los Angeles evaluating the latest U.S. pilots as part of the long road to deciding which new shows they will acquire. Sky Living previously aired the first two seasons of Teen Wolf, which ranks as one of MTV’s highest rated scripted originals in the United States.

Based on the feature film of the same name, Teen Wolf revolves around Scot McCall, a gifted high school athlete whose entire life changes when he is bitten by a werewolf. The drama series stars Tyler Posey as Scott McCall, Crystal Reed as Allison Argent, Dylan O’Brien as Stiles, Tyler Hoechlin as Derek Hale, Holland Roden as Lydia Martin and Colton Haynes as Jackson Whittemore. Following the ratings success of the show’s second season, the series was renewed for a third season of 24 episodes, set to premiere on MTV state-side on Monday June 3rd.

TVWise reached out to respresentatives of Sky Living regarding this story and they issued the following statement: “Customers will be able to watch repeats of previous series of Teen Wolf on Sky Living HD and LivingIt, however Sky Living has no further commitment to new and future seasons of the show. If you are a Sky subscriber, you can go to www.sky.com/nevermiss to ensure you don’t miss an episode when it is scheduled.”

TVWise’s Acquisitions Scorecard has been updated with this new information.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC One and LA Productions have locked down the core cast for their upcoming 90 minute TV movie Common, from Accused scribe Jimmy McGovern. I’ve learned that Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs), Susan Lynch (Monroe), Jodhi May (The Ice Cream Girls), Andrew Tiernan (Prisoners’ Wives), Nico Mirallegro (The Village) and Robert Pugh (Game of Thrones) have all been cast in the one-off, which is set to begin production next month.

Penned by McGovern, Common explores the potential injustice of the Joint Enterprise or Common Purpose law and tells the story of four young men who, in sheer panic, quickly flee from the scene of a fatal stabbing. The drama focuses on how the so callled Joint Enterprise or Common Purpose law (a 300 year old law which forms the basis of the felony murder statute in the US) suggests that the prosecution do not need to prove that the defendant knew that a violent crime was about to occur, the fact that they had knowledge or foresight of another person’s intent, or were present and failed to stop it. The lives of theses four young men, the lives of those they love and the lives of the victim’s family will never be the same again. The one off drama is being produced by LA Productions with Poly Hill, Colin McKeown and Jimmy McGovern serving as executive producers. Common is being directed by David Blair, who previously helmed several episodes of McGovern’s previous series Accused.

PBS America has released a new trailer for their upcoming Frontline documentary Top Secret America: 9/11 To The Boston Bombings, which is set to premiere on Thursday May 30th at 9pm.

In the documentary, which PBS America acquired earlier this month, Frontline collaborates with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dana Priest to examine the efforts of the Federal government since 9/11 to improve information sharing among federal agencies (such as the FBI and CIA) tasked with keeping Americans safe and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism. This investigation delves deep into a top-secret world that, Priest says, “has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programmes exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.”

PBS America’s Trailer For Top Secret America: 9/11 To The Boston Bombings Follows Below:

Channel 4′s award-winning in-house creative agency 4creative has produced a new clip to advertise the channel’s upcoming Mating season, which features a mix of dramas and documentaries exploring the complexities and nuances of forming relationships in 2013.

The clip (see below) explores dating through the eyes of a recently bereaved older man – Arthur, a Galapagos Tortoise. The Galapagos Tortoise is known to have long relationships with the same partner, often lasting over 100 years. But sadly, Arthur’s long-term love came to an end. This clip was created in co-ordination with Asylum, a leading British model making and special effects company; and directed by 4creative’s Chris Bovill and John Allison, with music specially composed by Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll.

“We wanted to create a campaign that spoke to people currently dating and people who had put their lucky date pants away years ago. Looking at the confusing rules of social media’s impact on dating, online dating and the changing attitudes towards sex, we felt it right to focus on the universal indisputable truth that modern dating is very complicated”, said John Allison. ”It’s all changed. It’s no longer a drink, some dinner, a dance and then 50 years of marriage. We wanted to take someone from the courtship days of yore and thrust them into 21st century dating landscape. Naturally a geriatric tortoise was the only way to bring this to life.”

While Paul Hartnoll added “…it’s been like scoring a whole film in miniature – so many emotions, builds and drops in such a tight space, I love it!”

Channel 4′s Trailer For Mating Season Follows Below: