BBC Studios
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Top Gear Road Trip is now available for Android phones
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Featuring 120 levels, Top Gear Road Trip allows players to join the official BBC Top Gear team in an adventure across the British Isles and Europe, playing classic challenges inspired by the TV show and building a collection of cars to compete against friends, enemies and frenemies.
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The Listener’s Lauren Lee Smith to star in new crime drama for UKTV’s Alibi channel
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Co-produced in association with CBC and Shaftesbury – with which UKTV already produce Murdoch Mysteries – Frankie Drake Mysteries stars Lauren Lee Smith (The L Word) as the head of Toronto’s only female private detective agency.
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UKTV unveils new onscreen branding for its Original programming slate
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The network started life in 1992 with UK Gold, a channel which mainly broadcast shows from then shareholders BBC and Thames Television, and now operates ten channels plus its own widely available on demand service, UKTV Play.
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David Tennant and Michael Sheen to star in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens
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The six part series is being written and overseen by Neil Gaiman and is based on Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s internationally bestselling novel Good Omens’. Its being produced by BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial production arm, Narrativa and The Blank Corporation, in association with BBC Worldwide.
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UKTV Play is joining Virgin Media’s Irish TV service
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The deal gives Virgin Media customers access to over 1,000 additional hours of content, including UKTV Originals John Bishop: In Conversation With… and Taskmaster.
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Channel 4 and UKTV strike deal for Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall shows
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Multi-channel broadcaster UKTV has snapped up the rights to eight serie including Jamie’s Fish Supper, Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals, multiple series of Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage, plus Nigella Bites, to screen on it’s lifestyle channels.