Hayu is expanding its reach after NBCUniversal International agreed a deal to launch the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service on Apple TV in Q4 2016. Additionally, around the same time it launches on Apple TV, Hayu will also be adding an offline viewing functionality, allowing subscribers to download episodes to view later. Read More
David Suchet (Agatha Christie's Poirot) has signed on as the narrator for BBC One's Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a special adaptation of the theatre production from Mischief Theatre which is set to air this Christmas. Suchet, who is coming off of a starring role in BBC Two's Decline And Fall, will appear on-screen as the narrator who finds himself caught up in the mayhem. Read More
Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to Black Lightning, an hour-long drama based on the DC Comics characters, which hails from super-producer Greg Berlanti. Read More
TNT is doubling-down on The Last Ship.
Mere months after renewing the Sunday night genre series for a fourth season, the network has extended that renewal and also ordered a fifth season. After previously announcing that season four would consist of 13 episodes, TNT has revised the episode order and confirmed that both seasons four and five will be ten episodes long. Read More
Pulse Films is expanding their unscripted division. The indie is drilling down on creating more innovative and culturally relevant content for the UK, US and other international markets. To that end, Emma Cooper has been promoted to lead the growing division as Managing Director, UK; succeeding Roy Ackerman who is exiting the company after 15 months. Read More
The Sinner, an hour-long crime drama starring Jessica Biel, has snagged a pilot order at USA Network. It joins a pilot slate at the network that includes Tony Tost's period drama Damnation and Skull and Bones drama The Tap, starring Colin Woodell (Masters Of Sex) and Erinn Westbrook (Glee). Read More
ITV has released a trailer for their six episode police drama The Level, which is set to premiere later this month. The Level is set in Brighton and follows Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin, who has a secret double life. Her exemplary police career masks a covert attachment to shady businessman and drugs trafficker, Frank Le Saux. Read More
After previously releasing two teaser shots, BBC Two has released three new teaser images from the upcoming third and final season of psychological thriller The Fall, which is set to premiere later this month. These new images, which were released ahead of a screening of the season three premiere episode at BFI tonight, show Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson in character as Paul Spector and Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson. One such image shows Gibson and the reflected image of Spector in a hospital room. Read More