BBC Two’s drama series The Fall has added over a million viewers on its initial overnight audience for its third episode, consolidated ratings have revealed.
HBO has released a first look trailer for its upcoming comedy series Hello Ladies, which is slated to premiere on Sunday September 29th at 10:30/9:30c.
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Ray Winstone (The Sweeney), Aneurin Barnard (The White Queen), Anthony Ofoegbu (Spooks), Martin Trenaman (The Inbetweeners), Lorcan Cranitch (Silent Witness), Ben Chaplin (Wipers Times), Sophie Cookson and Omid Djalili have joined the cast of Sky1’s upcoming two-part drama Moonfleet. As TVWise previously reported, production on the mini-series is set to commence this Summer on location in Dublin.
EXCLUSIVE: ITV and Red Production Company have found the two lead actresses for their upcoming comedy series Cabbage and Pat. My sources tell me that Cherie Lunghi (Secret Diary Of A Call Girl) and Barbara Flynn (Cranford) have been cast as the co-leads in the six episode series, with production on Cabbage and Pat currently underway.
UPDATE, June 21st: I’ve just heard from a Bell Media rep who tells me that the five episode first season of The Fall will premiere on Bravo on Sunday July 7th at 9pm.
EXCLUSIVE: Sky1 and Company Pictures have found a new director for their upcoming two-part drama Moonfleet. I’ve learned that Andy de Emmony, who previously directed Daran Little’s comedy pilot Kitten Chic for sister channel Sky Living, has signed on to helm the two-parter. He replaces Dan Percival who was previously announced as the director for the drama and is currently working on Death Comes To Pemberley for BBC One. Andy de Emmony has been directing television since the 1990s and has just come off of helming BBC Two’s Wipers Times, which was written by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman and starred Ben Chaplin.
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has ordered a 60 minute docudrama titled Blackout, which will explore what would happen if the national grid suddenly stopped working. Production on the drama is currently underway at Wimbledon Studios, with Channel 4 eyeing an Autumn premiere.
EXCLUSIVE: It looks like the BBC is after a new medical comedy series. My sources tell me that the BBC has put into development a new medically themed series titled Porters. I understand that, at present, there is no specific channel attached to Porters and that the BBC has seen a completed script for a pilot episode which was written by Dan Sefton. Sefton, repped by Blake Friedmann, has a background in medicine and has written extensively for medical dramas including Doctors, Casualty and Holby City.