Universal Channel Acquires UK Rights To ‘Prime Suspect’

Exclusive: I have just learned that Universal Channel has closed a deal to acquire the UK broadcast rights to NBC’s short lived remake of Prime Suspect from ITV Studios Global Entertainment. I’m also being told that Universal Channel has set the premiere for the show’s 13 episode first season for Monday June 18th at 10pm.

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The Good Wife Star Archie Panjabi Cast In BBC Two’s ‘The Fall’

EXCLUSIVE: Archie Panjabi, best known for playing the role of Kalinda Sharma – the resident private investigator for the law firm of Lockhart & Gardner in the CBS legal-drama series The Good Wife, has been cast in BBC Two’s upcoming drama series The Fall, TVWise has learned. Panjabi has been cast as Paula Reed Smith, a pathologist who is assigned to the PSNI investigation into a string of murders and forms a close working relationship with Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson).

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