UKTV Continues Originals Push With 4 New Series For Dave, Gold & W
UKTV is continuing their aggressive originals push with four new series for Dave, Gold and flagship entertainment channel W. The announcement was made today at the company's UKTV Live event at BFI. The new commissions include Lizard Lick Touring, a new ten parter featuring Lizard Lick Towing star Ron Shirley for Dave; We Have Been Watching, a Gogglebox-like format for Gold; Used Car Wars, a factual entertainment series for Dave which is set in the world of second hand car sales; and Dr Christian Will See You, a new series featuring Dr Christian Jessen for W. 
Gold's Sarah Alexander (Undercover) fronted supernatural comedy series Marley's Ghosts will premiere on Wednesday September 30th at 10pm, it has been announced. 
UKTV's Gold channel has given the greenlight to Do Not Disturb, an hour-long comedy set in a boutique hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon. Catherine Tate (Big School) and Miles Jupp (In & Out Of The Kitchen) are attached to star. 
Robert Lindsay (My Family) and Maureen Lipman (Coronation Street) have been cast as the leads in Bull, Gold's three-part studio comedy from first time sitcom writers Gareth Gwynn & John-Luke Roberts and indie John Stanley Productions. Claudia Jessie (Doctors), Naz Osmanoglu (Flat TV), Toby Williams (Paddington), Kevin Eldon (Death Comes to Pemberley) and Matt Lucas (Little Britain) also star. 
UKTV's Gold Channel has given the green-light to Legends of Stand-Up & Bernard Righton, a six-episode series which sees John Thomson (in character as his alter-ego Bernard Righton) celebrating the world’s greatest comedians from across the globe. 
Sarah Alexander (Jonathan Creek, The Jury) has been set as the lead in Marley's Ghosts, Gold's upcoming three episode single-camera comedy series from writer Daniel Peacock and Pompidou indie John Stanley Productions. John Hannah (Spartacus), Jo Joyner (EastEnders) and Nicholas Burns (Benidorm) also star.