Spike Sets UK Premiere Date For Syfy’s ‘Olympus’
Syfy's 13 episode fantasy series Olympus will receive its UK premiere on Viacom's soon-to-launch entertainment channel Spike UK on Wednesday April 15th at 10pm, it has been announced.
Syfy's 13 episode fantasy series Olympus will receive its UK premiere on Viacom's soon-to-launch entertainment channel Spike UK on Wednesday April 15th at 10pm, it has been announced.
The second season of AMC's revolutionary war drama Turn: Washington's Spies will receive its UK premiere on Amazon Prime Instant Video UK on Wednesday April 15th, when the first two episodes will be available to stream. New episodes will then continue to be made available every Wednesday through to the season finale in early June.
Amazon Prime Instant Video UK is sticking with their most recent round of US imports. The UK arm of Amazon's streaming service has announced that they have picked up the exclusive rights to the second seasons of Halt & Catch Fire, Turn: Washington's Spies and The Red Road after agreeing a deal with international distributor Entertainment One (eOne).
Sky1 is teaming up with Stan Lee for Lucky Man, a 10 episode series which is being hailed as the comic book icon's first ever original UK drama. The Missing and Babylon star James Nesbitt is attached to star and will lead the all-star cast.
UKTV is adding free-to-air channel Drama to their on-demand service UKTV Play. The channel will launch on the VOD service later this week and will offer a wide range of programmes including Death Comes to Pemberley, The Bill, Birds Of A Feather and Lovejoy.
The TV adaptation of Cassandra Clare's young adult novel series The Mortal Instruments has found a US network. The project, which is working under the title Shadowhunters, has landed at ABC Family with a 10 episode straight-to-series order. It has been on the marketplace since MIPCOM 2014, when Constantin Film opted to go down the television route after the feature film adaptation 'City Of Bones' failed at the box office.
The BBC's drama boss Ben Stephenson is joining the ranks of Bad Robot Productions. After the better part of two months worth of rumblings and rumours, JJ Abrams' production company has confirmed that they have poached Stephenson to lead their TV division in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for the development and production of all of the company's television projects.