Sky Atlantic Sets Premiere Date For Comedy Series ‘Walking And Talking’
Sky Atlantic’s new four-part comedy series Walking and Talking will premiere on Monday June 25th at 10:30pm, it has been announced.
Sky Atlantic Sets UK Premiere Date For ‘Veep’
Sky Atlantic has announced that the eight episode first season of HBO’s comedy series Veep will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Monday June 25th at 10pm.
Sony Prepping UK DVD Release For ‘Breaking Bad: The Complete Fourth Season’
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is in the early stages of preparing a UK DVD release for the fourth season of drama series Breaking Bad (which, like season three, has not been broadcast on UK television), TVWise has learned exclusively.
Ratings – TNT’s ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ and ‘Franklin & Bash’ Steady In Return
Tuesday was a good night for TNT. In Rizzoli & Isles‘ first outing in the Tuesday 9pm time-slot (after airing at 10pm on Monday nights for the past two seasons) the drama series set a new record as basic cable’s #1 Tuesday premiere ever for an original scripted drama series with 5.6 million total viewers, 1.5 million of those viewers in the 18-49 demo (a 1.2 rating) and 1.9 million viewers in the 25-54 demo. The show’s third season premiere was down 12.5% in total viewers, but was steady in the demo, compared to the show’s second season premiere. However, Tuesday’s numbers are more or less level with the averages for the shows second season (5.9 million total viewers/1.1 A18-49 rating) and posted gains of 87% and 57% compared to the second season premiere of Memphis Beat (3 million total viewers/0.7 A18-49 rating) which aired in the same time-slot last season.
Universal Channel Acquires UK Rights To Bones Spinoff ‘The Finder’
Exclusive: I have just learned that Universal Channel has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to The Finder, the short lived spin-off of Fox’s long running drama series Bones. I’m also being told that Universal Channel currently has the series penciled in for a July premiere.
Ratings – Game Of Thrones Posts Series Highs, Longmire Opens Strong, The Killing Bounces Back
Sunday night – hereby dubbed the busiest night on cable – saw Game of Thrones leading the pack on the scripted side.
Update: Cinemax’s New Drama Series ‘Hunted’ To Premiere October 19th
Update: I have just heard back from a source at the network and they are now telling me that the premiere date for Hunted has been moved up to Friday October 19th at 10/9c
Channel 5 Closes Deal To Acquire UK Rights To Sons Of Anarchy Season Five
Exclusive: I have just learned that Channel 5 has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to the fifth season of Sons of Anarchy for its 5USA channel.