Major Crimes: How The Show Successfully Transitioned From ‘The Closer’ & Became A Hit


Independent production company Nevision has acquired a majority stake in French financing and distribution company About Premium Content. The two companies will remain independent of each other and will continue to work with outside producers and distributors, but there will be opportunities for Nevision and APC to collaborate on specific projects. The deal will give Nevision a strengthened presence in Europe and will bring increased support and funding access to APC. Read More
BBC Two has commissioned 7 Wonder - the independent production company backed by Australian broadcaster Seven Network - to produce Don’t Buy That, Buy This?, a consumer format fronted by Cherry Healey which aims to tell viewers what to buy and what not to buy. Read More
UKTV's Watch channel has given the green-light to Battlechefs, a new ten episode cooking series which takes place on a cruise ship and features a range of amateur celebrity chefs Alex James, Keith Duffy and John Partridge. Battlechefs will premiere on Watch in 2016. Read More

UKTV's Watch channel has given the green-light to Get Me To The Church, a new six episode factual-entertainment series from independent production company Twofour which is hailed as a play "on the premise of films like The Hangover, capturing that feeling of fish-out-of-water and a race against time". Read More

Law & Order: UK alum Paul Nicholls has landed a guest starring role on the fifth season of BBC One's ratings juggernaut Death In Paradise, which is currently being shot on location on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Read More