Comedy Central UK is celebrating the 21st anniversary of Friends in a big way. The VIMN backed channel has announced that to mark the 21st anniversary of the series premiere of Friends on NBC in 1994, they will air all 236 episodes of the ground-breaking sitcom in order, from the pilot all the way through to the series finale, beginning on Monday August 24th. 
UKTV's Dave channel has handed out a two-season renewal to Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. The two year pickup, which consists of an order for two eight episode seasons, will see the series through to its fifth season. Notably, this is the second two-season renewal in a row for the show, after UKTV granted a similar order in 2014. 
Netflix has handed out a second season order to Sense8, their sci-fi series from Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and The Matrix's Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski. It is not immediately clear how many episodes have been ordered for the show's second season. 
Colin Morgan (The Fall, Merlin) and Charlotte Spencer (Glue, Line Of Duty) have been set as the leads in The Living And The Dead, BBC One's six episode supernatural thriller from Life On Mars and Eternal Law creators Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham. 
The third season of FX's cold war spy drama The Americans will receive its UK premiere on ITV's pay channel ITV Encore on Wednesday August 19th at 10pm, it has been announced. 