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BBC Agrees FX Networks Output Deal Making Beeb UK Home To All Future FX Originals

To borrow from former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden: “this is a big f***ing deal”. In what is undoubtedly the BBC’s biggest move in U.S. scripted acquisitions in years, they have inked a content partnership (effectively an output deal) with FX Networks that will make the Beeb the U...

CBS All Access Hands Out Two Season Straight-To-Series Order To Animated ‘Star Trek’ Comedy ‘Lower Decks’

CBS All Access is adding another Star Trek series to their line-up. The CBS owned streaming service has handed out a two season straight-to-series order to Star Trek: Lower Decks, a half-hour animated comedy series which is being developed by Rick & Morty‘s Mike McMahan. Star Trek: Lower D...

SYFY UK Drops ’12 Monkeys’ After Three Seasons

EXCLUSIVE: Bad news for 12 Monkeys fans. I’ve learned that SYFY UK has opted not to acquire the fourth and final season of the sci-fi series from their sister company NBCUniversal International Distribution. It is not immediately clear if either Netflix UK or Amazon Prime Video UK – both...

Chelsea Peretti Exiting ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ In Season 6

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is losing a cast member. Chelsea Peretti, who has played civilian administrator Gina Linetti since the pilot, has announced that she is exiting the comedy series as a series regular during it’s sixth season. “B99 fans. Hiiiiiiiiiiii. Chelsea Peretti, here. I won’...

UKTV’s Gold Channel To Remake Missing ‘Dad’s Army’ Episodes

The missing Dad’s Army episodes are being re-made. UKTV’s Gold channel has announced plans to remake the missing episodes from the show’s second season with an entirely new cast. The Lost Episodes will air on Gold to mark the 5oth anniversary of their original broadcast on the BBC....

BBC One Releases Trailer For ‘Mrs Wilson’

By Patrick Munn | November 12, 2018 - 5:19 pm | No Comments

BBC One has released a trailer for three-part drama Mrs Wilson, which is set to premiere late this year. Read More

StarzPlay Coming To Virgin Media Later This Month

By Patrick Munn | November 9, 2018 - 9:26 pm | No Comments

StarzPlay is widening their distribution in the UK. The premium streaming service, which initially launched on this side of the pond via Amazon Prime Video Channels, will be launching on Virgin Media on November 29th. Virgin Media customers will require a StarzPlay add-on subscription (costing £4.99 per month) to access the service. Read More

Sky Atlantic Sets UK Premiere Date For ‘Kidding’

By Patrick Munn | November 9, 2018 - 9:10 pm | No Comments

Showtime's Jim Carrey comedy Kidding will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Thursday November 29th at 10:40pm, it has been announced. Read More

BBC Two Sets Premiere Date For ‘Death And Nightingales’

By Patrick Munn | November 9, 2018 - 9:06 pm | No Comments

BBC Two's three-part Eugene McCabe adaptation Death And Nightingales will premiere on Wednesday November 28th at 9pm, it has been announced. Read More

BBC Three Releases Trailer For ‘Clique’ Season 2

By Patrick Munn | November 8, 2018 - 8:11 pm | No Comments

BBC Three has released the trailer for the second season of Clique, which is set to premiere on Saturday November 10th. Read More

Rachael Stirling, Angela Griffin, Tony Pitts & Bronwyn James To Star Opposite Rob Lowe In ITV’s ‘Wild Bill’

By Patrick Munn | November 8, 2018 - 3:36 pm | No Comments

Rachael Stirling (The Bletchley Circle, Detectorists), Angela Griffin (Ordinary Lies, Brief Encounters), Tony Pitts (Peaky Blinders, Line Of Duty) and Bronwyn James (Harlots, The ABC Murders) have joined the cast of ITV's Rob Lowe (The West Wing) fronted police drama Wild Bill. Read More

‘The Good Fight’ Adds Michael Sheen For Season 3

By Patrick Munn | November 7, 2018 - 9:56 pm | No Comments

Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, Masters Of Sex) has joined the cast of CBS All Access' The Good Wife spin-off The Good Fight for its upcoming third season, which is currently filming ahead of an early 2019 premiere. The series airs on this side of the pond on the Channel 4 owned digi-net More4. Sheen will play Roland Blum, a brilliant, charismatic and Machiavellian lawyer. He is a man of appetites - drugs, sex, you name it - who's far more interested in winning than the niceties of following the law. Read More

BBC Two Orders Jason Atherton Fronted ‘Kitchen Brigade’ From Expectation Factual

By Patrick Munn | November 7, 2018 - 3:10 pm | No Comments

BBC Two has commissioned Expectation Factual to produce Kitchen Brigade, a six episode series following Jason Atherton as he finds undiscovered talent from British catering, trains up ten ambitious chefs and turns them into a Kitchen Brigade to take on the best in the world. Read More