UPDATED: Channel 5 Shifts ‘Wentworth Prison’ To 5Star
Wentworth Prison is on the move. Channel 5 is moving the Australian drama series, which is an update of 1980s hit Prisoner: Cell Bock H, from their main channel to digi-net 5Star. Read More
Wentworth Prison is on the move. Channel 5 is moving the Australian drama series, which is an update of 1980s hit Prisoner: Cell Bock H, from their main channel to digi-net 5Star. Read More
‘Catastrophe’ Renewed For Two More Seasons At Channel 4
Channel 4 is doubling down on Catastrophe. The broadcaster has handed out a two-season renewal to the hit comedy series from Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, TVWise has learned. 12 episodes have been ordered, which will be split evenly across the show's third and fourth seasons. Read More
ITV2 Renews ‘Ibiza Weekender’ For Extended Sixth Season
ITV2 has renewed unscripted hit Ibiza Weekender for an extended sixth season, TVWise has learned. Ten episodes have been ordered for the new season, up from the eight episodes that comprised season five Read More
‘NCIS’ Adds Jennifer Esposito, Promotes Duane Henry To Series Regular
Jennifer Esposito is returning to the CBS fold. The former Blue Bloods star, who was let go from the Tom Selleck fronted procedural in 2012, has joined the cast of NCIS as a series regular for its fourteenth season, TVWise has learned. Read More
Paramount Developing ‘Battlefield’ TV Series
EA's Battlefield video game series is getting the TV treatment. Paramount Television is teaming up with Electronic Arts to develop the franchise as a potential television series, TVWise has learned. The rights to Battlefield were optioned by Paramount TV and Anonymous Content in a deal with both Dice and Electronic Arts, which was negotiated by Hollywood tenpercentery UTA. There is no writer attached as yet, though Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta will serve as executive producers. Once Paramount has locked in a scribe, the project will be shopped to the networks. Read More
First Images: Gillian Anderson & Jamie Dornan In ‘The Fall’ Season 3
BBC Two has released the first two-teaser images from the upcoming third and final season of the psychological thriller The Fall, which is set to premiere this Autumn. The two images in question show Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, American Gods) and Jamie Dornan (Once Upon A Time, Fifty Shades Of Grey) in character as Detetective Superintendent Stella Gibson, on secondment to the PSNI from London's Metropolitan Police Service, and Paul Spector, a serial killer who has been terrorising Belfast, respectively. Read More
Raoul Trujillo, Kalani Queypo & Roseanne Supernault Join Sky1’s ‘Jamestown’
Sky1 is adding to the cast of Jamestown. Raoul Trujillo (Neverland, Da Vinci’s Demons). Kalani Queypo (The Royal Tenebaums, Saints & Strangers) and Roseanne Supernault (Blackstone, The Drive) have boarded the eight episode period drama, which hails from Downton Abbey production company Carnival Films, TVWise has learned. Read More
Ofcom: PSBs Spend On Drama Up, Kids Content & Comedy Down Vs. 2014; Generational VOD Gap Continues To Grow
UK Public Service Broadcasters have increased their spend on drama in real terms in the past year, compared to 2014, while spending on kids content and comedy has dropped in real terms in the same time period, it has emerged. Read More