Mark Strong Set As Lead In Sky One’s ‘Temple’; Carice Van Houten & Daniel Mays Also Cast
Mark Strong (Low Winter Sun) has been set as the lead in Sky One eight episode comic thriller Temple, which is set in the secret world beneath London. Carice van Houten, (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Mays (Line of Duty) have also been cast in the series. In Temple, deep below the streets of London, descending past Temple tube in the beating heart of the city, lies a dark secret. An illegal clinic has been set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels. They treat a variety of increasingly desperate and highly dangerous patients. 
Sky One is adding to the cast of Jamestown. Ben Batt (In The Dark, Shameless) has joined the cast of the period drama about the first British settler in America for its third season, which is now filming in Budapest for a 2019 premiere. He will play enigmatic trader Willmus Crabtree. 
Sky One has released the first trailer for the new Karl Pilkington comedy series Sick Of It Sick Of It follows Karl's attempts to make sense of the modern world after the loss of his girlfriend. Now living with his elderly auntie, Karl's closest companion is Inner Self; the voice in his head who says what he really thinks without the risk of offending others. 
After producing a series of shorts for Sky's Sky Kids app, Tiger Aspect Productions has been commissioned to produce a thirty-minute Aliens Love Underpants AND... Christmas special for the satcaster's flagship channel Sky One. After airing on Sky One, the special will available on all Sky’s on demand platforms including the Sky Kids app and NOW TV. The Christmas special, titled Aliens Love Panta Claus, is based on the picture book of the same title written by Claire Freedman, illustrated by Ben Cort and published by Simon and Schuster. It sees the aliens giving away underpants because it’s Christmas. But when they realise they have a famous pair of underpants that could halt Christmas for everyone, they jump in to action to save the day and help Santa deliver all his presents by spaceship. 
Sky One has released the trailer for their Deborah Harkness adaptation A Discovery Of Witches, starring Matthew Goode (The Good Wife) and Teresa Palmer (Hacksaw Ridge), which is set to premiere later this year.