Ben Miller Exits BBC One’s ‘Death In Paradise’, Kris Marshall Cast As New Detective

By Patrick Munn | April 9, 2013 - 12:09 pm | 3 Comments

There has been a cast shake up on BBC One’s drama series Death In Paradise. Ben Miller (Johnny English) – who has played DI Richard Poole on the show’s past two seasons – will be departing the series during its upcoming third season. Details of Miller’s departure are being kept under wraps, however, the BBC has announced that Kris Marshall (My Family) has been cast in the series as the new lead detective. Marshall will play the bright, but rather disorganised and gawky DI Humphrey Goodman, who is stuck in a mid-life rut and is looking to find a new life and fresh start. He will joined on the show’s third season by returning regulars Sara Martins, Danny John-Jules, Gary Carr and Don Warrington. Production on the new season is set to commence on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe next month.

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BBC One Orders World War I Drama Series ‘The Great War’

By Patrick Munn | April 9, 2013 - 11:56 am | No Comments

BBC OneBBC One has given the green-light to a new (5×30) World War I drama series titled The Great War, the BBC’s Controller of Drama Ben Stephenson announced today at MIPTV in Cannes, France. This is the second World War I drama series that BBC One has in the pipeline, with the other being The Ark, which is being produced in house by the BBC.

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Content Television Inks Distribution Deal With Daro Films For ‘The Fall’, ‘Line Of Duty’, ‘Jack Taylor’ & More

By Patrick Munn | April 9, 2013 - 10:24 am | No Comments

Content Television has struck a pan territory distribution deal at MIPTV with Monaco-based Daro Films for a number of television titles including the fourth season of Canadian dramedy series Republic of Doyle, both seasons of BBC Two’s Line of Duty, Irish TV movie series Jack Taylor and BBC Two’s drama series The Fall – which is set to premiere in the UK this May. This is the latest deal between Content Television and Daro Films, with Daro having previously taken the rights to previous seasons of Republic of Doyle, Ice Road Terror and Killer Mountain.

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Pippa Bennett-Warner Cast In Sky1’s Firefighter Drama Series ‘The Smoke’

By Patrick Munn | April 8, 2013 - 11:55 pm | No Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Pippa Bennett-Warner has joined the cast of Sky1’s upcoming firefighter drama The Smoke as a series regular for its 8 episode first season. Sources have described Bennett-Warner’s role to me as being the female lead, and I’m told she plays Ziggy, one of the few female fire fighters in the fire crew featured in the series. Bennett-Warner’s casting comes after TVWise previously broke the news that both Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) and Rhashan Stone (Strike Back) have also been cast in the series.

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Sky1’s ‘The Smoke’, BBC One’s ‘Big School’ & ITV’s ‘The Guilty’ Add To Casts

By Patrick Munn | April 8, 2013 - 7:42 pm | No Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Strike Back alum Rhashan Stone has been cast as a series regular in Sky1’s fire-fighter drama series The Smoke, which just recently entered production. Stone plays a member of the fire crew featured in the series, and joins Battlestar Galactica alum Jamie Bamber who has also been cast in the drama series. Created by Lucy Kirkwood, The Smoke follows a family of firemen and women who, no matter what, always have each other to fall back on. But being a hero isn’t easy, especially in a world that regularly disregards them, and it certainly doesn’t pay. Many crew members are forced to hold down other jobs on the side, taking some of them into the city’s after dark world. The stakes are high but, in The Smoke, it’s the very lives and souls of the White Watch crew that are at risk. Sky 1 has ordered eight episodes for the show’s first season. Kudos Film & TV is producing with Anne Mensah, Jane Featherstone and Noelle Morris serving as executive producers.

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Sky Atlantic & Starz Team For 13 Episode Drama Series ‘Fortitude’

By Patrick Munn | April 8, 2013 - 5:40 pm | 1 Comment

Sky AtlanticSky Atlantic and Starz are teaming for a new 13 episode drama series. The two Pay TV channels have given the green-light to Fortitude, from Tiger Aspect Productions and Fifty Fathoms, which is being described as Sky’s “most ambitious drama” commission to date. This is BSkyB’s third trans-atlantic co-production, the company’s flasghip channel Sky1 co-produced Strike Back with Cinemax and their Sky Living channel is also co-producing Dracula with NBC. For Starz, this is the second co-production for their original scripted slate, with the other being The White Queen, which is a co-production with BBC One. Casting on the series is currently underway, with production slated to commence later this year. Fortitude will air on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Starz in the US in 2014.

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It’s Official: BBC One Orders ‘The Whale’ Starring Jonas Armstrong

By Patrick Munn | April 8, 2013 - 4:37 pm | 1 Comment

Last month, TVWise broke the news that BBC One had commissioned a 90 minute factual drama titled The Whale which tells the story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex, which sunk in 1820 and was later immortalised in the book “The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk By A Whale”, which would in turn be used as the inspiration for the novel Moby Dick. As we previously reported, the 90 minute film is a co-production with the Discovery channel and was written by Terry Cafolla. BBC One has also confirmed our earlier scoop that the film will star Jonas Armstrong (Hit & Miss), Charles Furness, John Boyega (Law & Order: UK), Jassa Ahluwalia (Some Girls), Adam Rayner (Hunted) and also announced that other cast members include Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), David Gyasi (War Horse) and Ferdinand Kingsley. Production on the film is set to commenece this week in Malta. BBC One’s press release follows below…..

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