The second season of Syfy's space-opera series The Expanse will receive its UK premiere on Netflix UK on Friday September 8th, when all thirteen episodes will be available to stream. Read More
The sixth season of Showtime's drama series Shameless will receive its UK premiere on Netflix UK on Friday September 1st, when all twelve episodes will be available to stream. Read More
In what was her final Meet The Controller session at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, outgoing Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer Jay Hunt unveiled the broadcaster's new slate of programming for 2018. Leading said slate is Friday Night Dinner, which has been renewed for a fifth season; and Jerusalem, a new six episode spy thriller set after World War II from Bash Doran; and a new six episode comedy series starring Stephen Mangan, which is a local adaptation of Showtime's Web Therapy. Read More
At his Meet The Controller session at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, BBC Two Controller Patrick Holland unveiled a raft of new programming for the channel. BBC Two has acquired FX's LA set cocaine drama Snowfall from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and ordered a trio of specials of their cult comedy series The League Of Gentleman. In addition, the channel has commissioned a number of factual titles including Inside The Foreign Office and Army: Behind The New Frontlines. Read More
Matthew Goode (The Good Wife) and Teresa Palmer (Hacksaw Ridge) have been set as the co-leads in Sky1's Deborah Harkness adaptation A Discovery Of Witches, which hails from Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner's indie Bad Wolf. Read More
André Rieu is crossing the Atlantic. Sky Vision has sold the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to Sky Arts' ten part series André Rieu: Welcome To My World to U.S. arts network Ovation TV. Read More
Diana: In Her Own Words is going global. International distributor Scorpion TV has sold Channel 4's controversial documentary film, produced by Kaboom Film and TV, into more than 20 international territories. Seven Network in Australia, Prime in New Zealand, NHK in Japan, RTL in Germany, VTM in Belgium, SBS in Holland, VG in Norway, Via 24 in South Africa, Odisea in Spain, TV2 in Denmark, ORF in Austria, TVP in Poland and TVN in Chile have all acquired the film. Further deals are also pending. Read More