Trisha Goddard is returning to Channel 5. I have just learned that Channel 5 has closed a deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to Trisha Goddard’s new US daytime talk show Trisha. The series, which is aired in first-run syndication in the US, is set to premiere on Channel 5 in mid-October.
Sky Atlantic has closed a deal with FreemantleMedia Enterprises to acquire the exclusive first run free and basic UK TV rights to Oliver Stone’s ten-hour documentary series The Untold History of The United States. The series, which has taken the better part of four years to complete, will air on Showtime in the US on Monday November 12th at 8/7c and on Sky Atlantic in 2013.
Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) is set to play the lead in BBC One’s upcoming adaptation of David Walliams’ childrens novel Mr Stink. Bonneville has been cast as the eponymous character, who is befriended by local girl Chloe. The one hour TV movie will form part of BBC One’s Christmas line-up, alongside the follow up to the 2011 Christmas comedy Lapland, and will enter production in October.
UKTV’s Dave channel has extended its current content deal with Red Bull Media House and renewed freestyle motocross series Red Bull X-Fighters for a fifth season. In addition, the channel has also acquired the rights to Red Bull’s Cliff Diving World Series, which will premiere this autumn.
Exclusive: Indian actor Harish Patel (Keith Lemon: The Film) has been cast in BBC One’s upcoming one-hour TV movie adaptation of David Walliams’ childrens novel Mr Stink, TVWise has learned exclusively. Patel has been cast as Raj, the jovial shopkeeper who runs the local newsagents.
Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later), Sam Neill (The Tudors), Helen McCrory (Harry Potter), Annabelle Wallis (Snow White And The Huntsman), Iddo Goldberg (Secret Diary Of A Call Girl) and Charlie Creed-Miles (Nil By Mouth) have joined the cast of BBC Two’s upcoming gangster drama series Peaky Blinders.
Exclusive: Tim Allen is returning to the UK. Multiple sources are telling me that Sky1 has closed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to ABC’s comedy series Last Man Standing.
The first season of BBC One’s drama series Hunted will premiere on Thursday October 4th at 9pm, it has been announced.