Exclusive: Alibi is continuing to expand its portfolio of crime drama imports. My sources are telling me that UKTV has closed a deal with All3Media International to acquire the exclusive UK broadcast rights to the Australian drama series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries for its Alibi channel. I’m also being told that the show’s 13 episode first season is set to premiere on Alibi in early 2013.
Exclusive: The Lying Game is making a move. Multiple sources are telling me that the series has been pulled from its Thursday night 8pm time-slot on 5*, effective immediately. However, I’m being told that rather than staying off the air for two or three months before re-appearing in a daytime slot, as was the case with Parenthoood, The Lying Game is instead jumping to sister channel 5USA, where it will return in its new 12pm Saturday time-slot on September 29th with an all new episode.
Exclusive: I have just learned that Universal Channel has closed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the UK broadcast rights to Lie To Me. I’m also being told that the show’s first season is set to premiere on Universal Channel on September 25th and will then air daily at 9pm.
The fourth season of Showtime’s medical dramedy series Nurse Jackie will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday October 9th at 10:35pm, it has been announced.
Showtime has announced that the new seasons of Californication, House of Lies and Shameless will premiere on Sunday January 13th, 2013.
PBS America (formerly known as PBS UK) has unveiled its plans for what has been described as “the most extensive coverage of the US presidential election on British television.” The broadcaster will be airing 104 hours of election themed programming during the eight week run-up to the election, showcasing PBS’s slate of election-focussed programming for the very first time in the UK.
Exclusive: BBC One is returning to Lapland. My sources are telling me that the broadcaster has ordered a follow up to its 2011 Christmas comedy. The BBC is not confirming but I hear that this new follow up, which I’m told is working under the same title of Lapland, will form part of the channel’s 2012 Christmas line up. At present it is unclear how many members of the original cast will be returning and I’m told that the only confirmed cast member for this follow up is Julie Graham, who will be reprising her role as Mandy Lewis. I’m also being told that Stephen Graham will not be returning as Peter Lewis, instead the part has been recast and Dean Andrews (Life On Mars) will now assume the role.
British actor Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) has been cast in the lead role of Starz’s upcoming pirate drama series Black Sails. Stephens has been cast as Captain Flint, the most brilliant and feared captain of all in the Golden Age of pirates and the commander of the pirate ship Walrus.