Netflix UK Sets Premiere Date For ‘Arrested Development’ Season 5
The fifth season of the Fox-turned-Netflix comedy series Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix UK on Tuesday May 29th, it has been announced.
The fifth season of the Fox-turned-Netflix comedy series Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix UK on Tuesday May 29th, it has been announced.
The second season of IFC's comedy series Stan Against Evil will receive its UK premiere on FOX UK on Thursday June 7th at 11:30pm, it has been announced.
Artists Studio - the Endemol owned indie founded in 2009 that is arguably best known for producing BBC Two's The Fall - is teaming up with Jean-Benoît Gillig and his production company Léonis to develop Anglo-French miniseries Faceless.
Miriam Margolyes (Warner Bros' Harry Potter film series) has signed on for a guest-starring role in Call The Midwife for this year's Christmas special. Production on the special and the eighth season is now underway. She will play Sister Mildred, a forthright and indefatigable sister from the Order. She arrives unexpectedly at Nonnatus House, her hands full with four Chinese orphans. Having fled China, the child refugees were found abandoned in Hong Kong and are being adopted in the UK as part of the World Refugee Project.
UKTV has a hit on their hands with Taskmaster. The sixth season of the Greg Davies and Alex Horne fronted series kicked off on Dave last night to record ratings. Per the overnights, Taskmaster peaked with 778 000 viewers - the highest overnight rating in the show's history. The season premiere was also watched by more 25-34-year-olds than any other channel in it's slot last night, with the show’s 11.9% share of the demo up from a 2.1% slot average; beating both BBC1 and ITV.
Veteran producers Andrew Robertson and Henry Imbert have teamed together to launch Very Nice, a new independent production company based in Scotland that will specialise in entertainment formats. The duo have a wealth of entertainment experience and pride themselves on launching an authentic Scottish indie. Very Nice will be based in Glasgow and will produce innovative, exciting shows and formats across a plethora of platforms.