MTV Sets UK Premiere Date For ‘Catfish: The TV Show’ Season 2
The second season of MTV’s reality series Catfish: The TV Show will receive its UK premiere on MTV UK on Monday September 2nd at 9pm, with a double-bill, it has been announced.
ITV2 Sets UK Premiere Date For ‘Up All Night’ Season 2
The second (and final) season of NBC’s comedy series Up All Night will receive its UK premiere on ITV2 on Thursday August 15th at 9:35am, with a double-bill, it has been announced.
LOVEFiLM Inks Kids Content Deal With NBCUniversal
Amazon owned streaming service LOVEFiLM has struck a deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution which will see a number of children’s television series and films made available to subscribers of the OTT service. Titles covered by said deal include Rastamouse, Curious George, Barbie: Princess Charm School, The Land Before Time and Maisy.
Peter Capaldi Cast As 12th Doctor In BBC One’s ‘Doctor Who’
And the new time lord is…. The BBC has announced that Peter Capaldi has been cast as the 12th doctor on their long running series Doctor Who.
Acquisitions Roundup: Channel 5 Picks Up UK Rights To ‘CSI’ Season 14, ‘The Mentalist’ Season 6 & More
EXCLUSIVE: With pilot season, the upfronts and the LA Screenings now behind us, numerous UK broadcasters are in various stages of acquiring next season’s new shows for their schedules (Sky Living just acquired The Blacklist from Sony Pictures Television and Channel 4 acquired Showtime’s Masters of Sex, again from Sony Pictures Television, while Disney Media Distributions’ Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. & CBS Studios International’s The Millers and We Are Men are also close to landing sales with UK broadcasters). While all eyes are on these new series and the various deals that are being hammered out, TVWise continues its extensive acquisitions coverage with our broadcaster-by-broadcaster breakdown of which current shows will be coming back later this year or early next.
Billy Bob Thornton Cast In FX’s Limited Series ‘Fargo’
FX has found the first actor for their upcoming 10 episode limited series Fargo, which is based on the 1990s feature film of the same name. Academy award winner Billy Bob Thornton has been cast as Lorne Malvo, a rootless, manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction.
Syfy UK Sets Premiere Date For ‘The Almighty Johnsons’ Season 3
The 13 episode third season of The Almighty Johnsons will receive its UK premiere on Syfy UK on Wednesday August 28th at 10pm, it has been announced.
FOX Sets UK Premiere Date For ‘Meet The Russians’
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eet The Russians – FOX’s first European commission solely-produced by a UK production team in the channel’s history – will premiere on Wednesday September 25th at 9pm, it has been announced.