Ratings hit Call The Midwife, which has already been renewed for a second season, aired its season finale last night and became BBC One’s most successful new drama series in ten years. Last nights episode drew in 9.2 million viewers and, over the course of the show’s first season, Call The Midwife averaged 8.7 million viewers and a 29.6% share.
In a break with the norm for pilot castings, Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence has issued an open casting call for an actor to play the role of the 20 year old son of Colin Ferguson’s character in his upcoming pilot for Fox titled Like Father. Fox ordered the sitcom pilot last month and the project is said to be based on Lawrence’s relationship with his own father. Per Bill Lawrence’s tweets: “So, open casting call for tv pilot. Looking for Colin Ferguson’s 20 yr old son. 19-21 yr old actors, post video on youtube of you doing Any scene (1 min or less) then email link to [email protected] Our team will watch (but only if you look the part age, etc…)” The experiment to find an actor outside of either New York City or Los Angeles is certainly an interesting one. Lawrence’s team will be accepting submissions at the above email through Wednesday.
Alibi has released a short trailer for the upcoming fifth season of its Canadian crime drama series, Murdoch Mysteries. The series stars Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy and Jonny Harris and revolves around Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto constabulary, who uses groundbreaking forensic techniques to close his cases. The series’ fifth season runs 13 episodes and is set to premiere on Alibi on Tuesday February 28th at 9pm.
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Clinton, a four hour documentary that is receiving it’s global premiere on PBS UK on Monday February 20th at 10:15pm (the series will be aired by PBS in the US some four hours later at 9/8c), is not something I sat down to watch without reservation. In fact, truth be told, as someone who wrote an incredibly long college paper on the life and presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, I went in with the frame of mind that this documentary would not impress me in the slightest.
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Exclusive: PBS UK will air a two part documentary on President Woodrow Wilson. The first part of the documentary will be broadcast on Tuesday 13th March at 9pm, before concluding the following evening on Wednesday 14th March at 9pm.
Eureka fans dry your eyes. Syfy has just unveiled their Spring schedule, revealing that the fifth and final season of Eureka will premiere on the network on Monday April 16th at 9/8c.
Several weeks ago, TVWise reported that UKTV’s Really channel would begin airing American drama series Hart of Dixie on April 30th at 8pm. Well, Really made that official today when they announced their programming line-up for April and confirmed that they would start airing the series on Monday April 30th at 8pm.
Exclusive: Continuing their series of presidential biographies, PBS UK have announced that they will air a two part documentary on Jimmy Carter starting on March 9th. The first part of the documentary, subtitled Jimmy Who?, will air March 9th at 9pm and the concluding part, subtitled Hostage, will air the following week on March 16th at 9pm.