Lucy Punch (Motherland), Julian Barratt (Mighty Boosh) Adrian Scarborough (Gavin & Stacey), Kevin Garry (Absolutely Fine), Sam Campbell and Aasiya Shah (Raised By Wolves) have been tapped to star opposite Samson Kayo (Famalam) and Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous) in Sky One's Bloods. 
Sky One has unveiled a raft of new scripted commissions. The satcaster's flagship channel has ordered Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl drama The Tail Of The Curious Mouse; paramedics comedy series Bloods; Greg Davies fronted comedy pilot Safe Space; and Zoran Drvenkar adaptation You. 
BBC Three has handed out a second season renewal to their Tim Renkow fronted comedy Jerk. Four twenty-two minute episodes have been ordered for the show's second season, which will initially air in BBC Three in 2020, followed by a repeat run on BBC One. 
People Just Do Nothing is heading to cinemas. The BBC Three series is getting a feature film adaptation, titled People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan. This marks the second BBC Three comedy to be developed into a feature film, following in the footsteps of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education in 2015. 
Channel 4 has renewed their comedy series Stath Lets Flats for a second season. The renewal, which is for a further six episodes, comes more than five months after the show's first season wrapped its run on the channel. Season two is expected to premiere later this year. 
BBC Three's Cuckoo is changing leads once again. Taylor Lautner (Twilight) has exited the series ahead of its fifth season. He first joined the show for season two back in 2014, when original star Andy Samberg exited due to his commitment to the Fox-turned-NBC comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Lautner's character Dale left Lichfield as the end of the show's fourth season after he and Rachel left to go travelling to Sierra Leone. Andie MacDowell has been set as the new lead for the series. She will play Ivy, the sister Ken never knew he had.