EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources are telling me that Universal Channel has closed a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to TNT’s crime drama series Major Crimes.
Channel 4’s one-off drama Complicit will premiere on Sunday February 17th at 9pm, it has been announced.
The Mentalist will return to Channel 5 to finish airing its fifth season on Friday February 22nd at 9pm, it has been announced.
The first (and only) season of ABC’s supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue will receive its UK premiere on Tuesday February 19th at 10pm, it has been announced.
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he Vampire Diaries will return to ITV2 to finish airing its fourth season on Tuesday February 19th at 9pm, it has been announced.
EXCLUSIVE: My sources are telling me that British actor Stewart Wright has been cast in ITV’s upcoming drama series Love and Marriage as a series regular. Wright’s previous credits include Rescue Me and Doc Martin, he is represented by Grantham Hazeldine. The exact nature of Wright’s role is being kept under wraps, but I hear that he will appear in all six episodes of the series. ITV has yet to announce the commission of Love and Marriage, but I hear that it is currently being shot on location in Coventry, with production expected to last until May.
A re-boot of Gerry Anderson’s popular Thunderbirds series has been given a greenlight and will air on ITV and CITV in 2015. The new series, titled Thunderbirds Are Go!, has been given an order for 26 episodes and will be produced by ITV Studios, New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures and Weta Workshop (The Lord of the Rings). ITV Studios Global Entertainment is handling international distribution.
EXCLUSIVE: UKTV has just closed a deal with Disney Media Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to the third (and prospective fourth) season of Body of Proof & the fifth (and prospective sixth) season of Castle for its Alibi channel. The fifth season of Castle is set to premiere this March, while the third season of Body of Proof is set to premiere in July.