Red Arrow Studios backed indie Endor Productions has hired former Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa's Vice-President of Scripted Sara Johnson to serve as Creative Director. The company, which specialises in scripted content, is led by MD Hilary Bevan Jones and has produced such efforts as ORF and ZDF's Vienna Blood (later acquired by BBC Two), Fox Networks Group's Deep State, and forthcoming BBC One drama But When We Dance. 
The BBC is extending the run of Silent Witness to a quarter of a century. BBC One has renewed the long-running crime drama for an additional two seasons - the show's twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth. The renewal comes on the heels of the show's twenty-third season wrapping it's ten episode run. Season 23 was a rating success foor BBC One, averaging over 7 million viewers per week and ranking as one of the iPlayer’s most-requested shows. 
BBC One comedy pilot Bumps will premiere on Friday February 21st at 9:30pm, it has been announced. 
The eighth and final season of Homeland will receive its UK premiere on Channel 4 on Sunday February 16th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
CBS' Matt LeBlanc comedy series Man With A Plan will receive its UK premiere on E4 on Monday February 17th at 7:30pm, and will then continue to air daily in the same time-slot, it has been announced. 
New Zealand-set drama The Gulf will receive its UK premiere on UKTV's Alibi channel on Wednesday February 26th at 9pm, it has been announced. 