Channel 4 Promotes Nick Lee To Head Of Series Acquisitions
Channel 4 has promoted long-time Acquisitions Manager Nick Lee to serve in the newly created position of Head of Series Acquisitions. He will report to Channel 4’s Director of Commercial Affairs Martin Baker. His appointment as Head of Series Acquisitions marks the first time in more than five years that acquisitions has had a dedicated head of department. When C4's last Head of Acquisitions Gill Hay exited in 2013, the team was moved under Director of Commercial Affairs Martin Baker, with editorial decisions on buys being made by then Chief Creative Officer Jay Hunt and the channel management teams. 
BBC One has released the trailer for the fifth season of Luther, which is set to premiere this Christmas. In the four episode fifth season, when the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, DCI John Luther is once more called to immerse himself in the deepest depths of human depravity. 
BBC One has found their Dracula. Danish actor Claes Bang (Borgen, The Bridge) has been set as the lead in the channel's new Dracula series from Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. This new take on the classic Bram Stoker novel will re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy. In Transylvania in 1897, the blood-drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast. 
BBC One has released the trailer for their three-part Andrea Levy adaptation The Long Song, which is set to premiere on Tuesday December 18th at 9pm. 
The Wedding – the third entry in Halmark’s series of All Of My Heart TV movies – will receive its UK premiere on Movies 24 on Sunday January 20th at 3pm, it has been announced. 
DRG and The Development Partnership are extending their relationship. The two companies, who previously pacted together for non-scripted, have agreed a first-look deal for scripted content. Under the deal, which initially runs two years, The Development Partnership will develop scripted projects for both DRG and Atrium TV - DRG's wholly owned 'commissioning club' which aims to deliver premium, high profile drama content for delivery by regional OTT players and TelCos (BT TV is the club member for the UK market). The first such drama being developed under this deal is the