CBS Drama Gets Freeview Slot, Agrees CBSSI Deal For ‘Californication’, ‘Nurse Jackie’ & More
CBS Drama is coming to Freeview. The channel, which is operated by the CBS AMC Networks UK Channels Partnership, has agreed a new carriage deal which will see CBS Drama launch on Freeview on Tuesday September 1st. This carriage deal further extends the reach of CBS Drama, which is already available on a range of other platforms including Sky, Fresat and Virgin Media. The channel will now be available to over 90% of UK households when it debuts on Freeview slot 74 next month. Read More
Comedy series Faking It will return to MTV UK to finish airing its second season from Tuesday September 8th at 9:30pm, it has been announced. 
The fifth and final season of Awkward will receive its UK premiere on MTV UK on Tuesday September 8th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
CBS is re-teaming with NCIS star Mark Harmon for a new drama series. The network has handed out a script commitment to The Red Circle, a Navy Seals drama from Harmon which is based on Brandon Webb and John David Mann's book The Red Circle: My Life In The Navy SEAL Sniper Corps And How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen. 
WGN America has released the first trailer for the second season of their atomic bomb drama Manhattan, which is set to premiere on the Tribune owned cable network on Tuesday October 13th at 9/8c. The new trailer, which runs a little over a minute, offers the first glimpses of William Petersen as Colonel Emmett Darrow, who, when asked who he is by suspected spy Dr Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hinkley), simply responds "the United States Of America". Also confirmed by this trailer: Neve Campbell has joined the cast as Kitty, Oppenheimer's wife; and The West Wing vet Richard Schiff is reprising his season one role as spy catcher Mr Fisher. 