Following on from their first third-party acquisitions earlier this year, PBS America has sealed deals with various international distributors – including PBS International, Off The Fence, Content Media, Electric Sky, TVF International and Cineflix Rights – to acquire 88 hours worth of new content for their Autumn 2013 schedule.
Harry Enfield (Kevin & Perry) and Samantha Spiro (Psychobitches) are the latest actors who have landed guest roles on the second season of BBC Three’s comedy series Bad Education.
BSkyB’s Sky Atlantic has signed on to co-produce Showtime’s upcoming 8 episode drama Penny Dreadful and will air the series in the UK. In addition it has also been announced that Billie Piper (Doctor Who) has joined the cast of the series. She will play Brona Croft, an Irish immigrant in Victorian London trying to escape a dark past
The sixth season of the hit FX biker series Sons of Anarchy is underway and once again fans are invited back into the crazy lives of Jax, Tara, Gemma and the rest of the SAMCRO world. Season 5 ended with Tara and Clay both heading off to jail and for the first time, we were left with serious doubts about the relationship between Tara and Jax.
EXCLUSIVE: Relative newcomer Charles Furness – who recently landed the lead role on BBC One’s factual drama The Whale – has been cast in another upcoming BBC One drama: the channel’s upcoming three-parter Jamaica Inn. Exact details of Furness’ role are being kept under wraps for now. Based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name, Jamaica Inn is a three-part drama set in 1820 against the foreboding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors which follows the young Mary Yellan as she becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal world ridden with smuggling and murder, testing her resolve and morality to the very core. The adaptation was penned by Emma Frost (The White Queen). Origin Pictures is producing the drama with Sarah Stack, Stephen Wright, David Thompson, Ed Rubin and Hilary Heath serving as executive producers. Casting for the drama is currently underway, with production expected to commence in the coming months. Call The Midwife helmer Philipa Lowthorpe is attached to direct.
Steven Mackintosh (Inside Men), Daniel Rigby (Big School), Bernard Hill (Lord Of The Rings), Saskia Reeves (Luther), Liz White (Life On Mars) and Morven Christie (Hunted) have joined the cast of BBC One’s upcoming three-part drama From There To Here, which (as TVWise previously reported) is being led by Mad Dogs star Philip Glenister.
Sky Atlantic has released two first look images (see below) for their upcoming drama series The Tunnel, which is a co-production with French broadcaster Canal+ and is expected to premiere this October.
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Danny Glover is the latest actor to land a guest role on NBC’s upcoming drama series Ironside, TVWise has learned.