EXCLUSIVE: BBC One has locked down the main cast for its upcoming six episode drama series By Any Means, which is currently in production in Birmingham. My sources tell me that Elliot Knight (Sinbad), Warren Brown (Good Cop), Shelley Conn (Terra Nova), Gina McKee (The Borgias) and Andrew Lee Potts (Primeval) have been cast in the drama as series regulars. I’m also told that Claudia Jessie (Doctors), Richard Lumsden (Vexed) and Paul Thornley (Silk) have landed roles on the series, which (as TVWise previously reported) is being directed by Charlie Palmer.

EXCLUSIVE: With the 5 broadcast networks in the US set to give their upfront presentations in New York City in a few weeks time, we’ve been receiving a lot of emails asking us if we knew when a number of series currently airing state-side and certain new shows would be headed to the UK and when one show would be continuing in the UK. After getting in touch with official representatives and various sources at the the distributors and broadcasters involved TVWise has been able to pin down the statuses of the second season of A&E’s (now cancelled) drama series Breakout Kings, The CW’s The Carrie Diaries and Showtime’s new drama series Ray Donovan.