MTV UK has ordered new dating show Love Squad. The series has received an order for thirty episodes. Love Squad tasks groups of friends to take control of a single friend’s love life, in an attempt to try and find them the perfect match. In each episode, an unlucky in love dater will hand over the reins to their friends and family – The Love Squad – to try and find the perfect match in one night. 
Channel 4 has handed out a sixth season renewal to their comedy series Friday Night Dinner. Production on the show's sixth season is set to get underway later this year for a 2020 premiere. With the renewal the series becomes one of Channel 4’s longest running sitcoms. The pick-up comes a little more than a year after the show's fifth season aired. Season five ranks as the show's second highest rated season with an average audience of 1.9 million views and an 11.4% share in its 10pm slot. 
Black Monday will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Wednesday May 29th at 10:10pm, it has been announced. 
The Other Two will receive its UK premiere on E4 on Thursday May 23rd at 10pm with a double-bill, it has been announced. 
Guy Pearce (Mary Queen of Scots) has been set as the lead in BBC One's Charles Dickens adaptation A Christmas Carol. The three-part adaptation, which hails from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, was originally commissioned back in 2017 as one of a number of Dickens adaptions from Knight. FX has since boarded as the US partner and will are A Christmas Carol state-side.