Game of Thrones and Stargate: Atlantis alum Jason Momoa has been cast as the lead in the Sundance Channel’s upcoming original series The Red Road (formerly known as The Descendants). The series has received an order for six one-hour episodes.
The 8 episode first season of TNT’s reality series Boston’s Finest will receive its UK premiere on Watch on Wednesday August 14th at 10pm, it has been announced.
Sky Living has closed a deal with Sony Pictures Television to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to NBC’s upcoming drama series The Blacklist. The 13 episode series, which has the distinction of becoming the first series of the 2013-2014 season to land a UK sale, is set to premiere on Sky Living this Autumn.
Jamie Dornan (The Fall), Freya Mavor (Skins), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) have joined the cast of Channel 4’s upcoming four part drama New World, a follow up to the 2008 drama The Devil’s Whore.
The six episode first season of BBC Three’s new comedy series Badults will premiere on Tuesday July 23rd at 10pm, it has been announced.
Earlier this month A+E Networks UK broke their silence on one of the worst kept secrets in the industry: that they’re launching the female-skewing entertainment channel Lifetime in the UK. As part of that announcement, A+E Networks UK also announced the content they had lined up for the channel’s launch, which included, amongst others, the fourth season of the FX/DirecTV drama series Damages.
TV Land has ordered an additional 10 episodes of its comedy series The Exes for the show’s third season.
UKTV has entered into an agreement with Like A Shot Entertainment which will see the company co-produce a new six episode factual series fronted by DJ Jamie Theakston titled Forbidden History for their Yesterday Channel. Said deal was negotiated by UKTV’s Acquisitions Executive Emma Sparks after being ordered by Adrian Wills, General Manager of Yesterday. Forbidden History is set to air on Yesterday later this year.