ITV Orders Five-Part Drama ‘Lightfields’

ITV has ordered a new five part supernatural drama titled Lightfields. The drama project, which hails from writer Simon Tyrell and ITV Studios, is a followup to ITV1’s 2011 drama Marchlands, which was based on 20th Century Fox Television’s pilot The Oaks. Production on Lightfields is due to commence later this month in Rickmansworth and on location in East Sussex.

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Channel 5 Closes Deal To Acquire UK Rights To ‘The Mentalist’ Season 5

Exclusive: I have just learned that Channel 5 has closed a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to the fifth season of The Mentalist. I’m also being told that the show’s fifth season is currently scheduled to premiere on Channel 5 in either late October or early November.

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