The second season of Westworld will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Monday April 23rd at 2am, simulcast with HBO’s east-coast feed. The season premiere will also be repeated later that same day in the show’s regular 9pm time-slot. 
BBC One's new Abi Morgan drama The Split will premiere on Tuesday April 24th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
The third season of AMC’s comic book adaptation Preacher will receive its UK premiere on Amazon Prime Video UK on Monday June 25th, it has been announced. New episodes will continue to be made available to Amazon Prime subscribers in the UK every Monday, less than 24 hours after they initially air on AMC in the United States. 
HBO's new comedy series Barry will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Thursday April 26th at 10:45pm, it has been announced. 
Entertainment One (eOne) has secured a majority stake in independent production company Whizz Kid Entertainment. The indie's founder and CEO Malcolm Gerrie and Managing Director Lisa Chapman will remain in their current posts, reporting into Tara Long, Executive Vice-President of Alternative Television for eOne. The rest of the senior team also remains in place and will continue to focus on the development of original non-scripted entertainment programming with significant international appeal. 
UKTV has hired ITV Studios exec Ronan Hand to serve in the newly created role of Director of Programme Funding. The role sits within the company's commercial team and is designed to better enable the broadcaster to realise its ambitions in IP ownership and original commissions. Ronan Hand will report directly to UKTV's Chief Commercial Officer Simon Michaelides. 
Channel 5 has agreed a deal with Entertainment One (eOne) to secure UK rights to Canadian procedural The Detail and second window rights to ABC's Designated Survivor. This marks the second UK deal for Designated Survivor. Netflix UK previously secured, and retains, first run UK rights to the Kiefer Sutherland fronted thriller as part of a global deal between eOne and the streaming service. 
UKTV and CBC have renewed their co-production Frankie Drake Mysteries for a second season. Ten episodes have been ordered for the show's second season, which is expected to air later this year on CBC in Canada and early 2019 on Alibi in the UK, respectively.