BBC Four has acquired the UK rights to Hidden Assets after striking a deal with international distributor DCD Rights, TVWise has learned. The show's first season will premiere on Saturday January 15th at 9pm. 
My Life Is Murder will be returning to Alibi. The UKTV owned and operated channel has secured the linear rights to the show's second season after striking a deal with international distributor DCD Rights. As TVWise previously reported, Acorn TV UK will serve as the first run UK broadcaster for the series going forward after the streaming service boarded the production as a co-producer. My Life Is Murder is switching UK broadcasters. Acorn TV will be the exclusive UK home to the show's just ordered second season after the streaming service boarded the production as a co-producer. UKTV's Alibi channel had served as the UK broadcaster for the show's first season. 
BBC Four has inked deals with DCD Rights and Fremantle to acquire the UK rights to Australian drama series The Secrets She Keeps and French drama The Last Wave, respectively. Both series are expected to air in the channel's Saturday night foreign drama slot later this year. DCD Rights has secured UK deals for two new Australian dramas. The international distributor has licensed crime drama My Life Is Murder to UKTV's Alibi channel and four-part drama The Hunting to Channel 5. The deal for My Life Is Murder was negotiated by UKTV's Acquisitions Manager Charlie Charalambous, while Channel 5's Acquisitions Director Anna-Belen Dunlop secured The Hunting for the broadcaster's prime-time schedule. Both series will premiere later this year. 
Independent distributor DCD Rights has hired Passion Distribution executive Phillipa Chuter as Senior Acquisitions Executive, in anticipation of a factual acquisitions push. Chuter will report directly to DCD's Head of Acquisitions Pilar Perez.