Sky One Sets Premiere Date For ‘Sick Of It’
Sky One's new Karl Pilkington comedy Sick Of It will premiere on Thursday September 27th at 10pm with a double-bill, it has been announced.
Sky One's new Karl Pilkington comedy Sick Of It will premiere on Thursday September 27th at 10pm with a double-bill, it has been announced.
Virgin Media has announced plans to launch the UK's first dedicated 4K channel, Virgin TV Ultra HD. Ahead of the launch, Virgin Media has agreed a wide-ranging deal with Sony Pictures Television for a number of U.S. scripted series from their distribution catalogue. They have picked up first run rights to Shut Eye and The Art Of More, neither of which has previously aired in the UK; and linear/repeat rights to House Of Cards, Masters Of Sex and StartUp. Notably, Masters Of Sex was dropped by Channel 4 in 2016 and its final two seasons never aired in the UK.
Sony Pictures Television has acquired a minority stake in Eleventh Hour Films - the UK indie led by Jill Green, Eve Gutierrez, Paula Cuddy and Nicole Finnan which has been behind such productions as Foyle's War, New Blood, Vexed and Safe House.
Channel 4 is getting back into business with former Gogglebox stars Steph and Dom. The PSB has green-lit production on Escape To The Manor Hotel, a twenty episode historic hotel series that is set to be fronted by the couple.
ITV has rounded out the cast of The Man. Ben Miller (Death In Paradise), Alexandra Roach (No Offence), Sean Sagar (Our Girl, Top Boy), Susannah Fielding (This Time With Alan Partridge), Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody), Phoebe Nicholls (Downton Abbey), Ritu Ayra (The Good Karma Hospital), Michael Cochrane (The Archers) and Debbie Chazen (Doctor Who) have all been cast to star in the Mike Bartlett workplace bullying drama that is being toplined by Ken Nwosu (Killing Eve).
Lily Dodsworth Evans (Genius), Kerri McLean (Electric Dreams), Sofia Oxenham (Grantchester), Vincent Regan (300), Peter Sullivan (Entebbe) and Freddie Wise (Maleficent 2) have joined the cast of BBC One's Poldark for its fifth and final season.
The twenty-second season of South Park will receive its UK premiere on Comedy Central UK on Thursday September 27th at 10pm, it has been announced.