BBC One Orders Pair Of ‘Nan’ Specials For 2016
Nan is making a comeback. BBC One has ordered a pair of half-hour specials featuring the character created and played by Catherine Tate. The two specials, produced by Tiger Aspect and WAF Liberty Productions, are expected to air in 2016 
BBC One has released the first trailer for SunTrap (formerly known as Woody), their six episode comedy series starring Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK) and Kayvan Novak (Thunderbirds Are Go!)
The BBC has released the first trailer for the third season of Kay Mellor's lotto drama The Syndicate, which is set to launch on BBC One next month.
BBC One has teamed up with Happy Valley scribe Sally Wainwright for To Walk Invisible, a one-off drama which will offer a "original perspective on the extraordinary" Bronte sisters, who between them were responsible for such works of literature as Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights.
BBC One has tapped former EastEnders star Sam Strike for a guest starring role on the upcoming nineteenth season of their long-running crime drama Silent Witness. 
BBC One's seven part fantasy series Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will premiere on Sunday May 17th at 9pm, it has been announced. Based on the Susanna Clarke novel, the series, which is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return, stars Bertie Carvel, Eddie Marsan, Alice Englert, Marc Warren, Samuel West, Charlotte Riley, Enzo Cilenti and Paul Kaye.
Television newcomer Kascion Franklin has been tapped to play the lead role in Danny And The Human Zoo, BBC One's upcoming 90 minute one-off drama which hails from Lenny Henry and Happy Valley indie Red Production Company.