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  • Parks and Recreation moves to UKTV’s Dave

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    The show, which will launch this Summer, stars Hollywood A–listers Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live), Rashida Jones (The Social Network), Aziz Ansari (Ice Age: Continental Drift), Nick Offerman (22 Jump Street), Aubrey Plaza (The To Do List), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), Adam Scott (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) and Rob…

  • UKTV’s Gold commissions new Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais comedy

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    Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are returning to TV with a brand-new comedy set in the court of Henry IX, the fictitious, present-day King of the United Kingdom. The show is described as “the almost universal story of a middle-aged man trapped in his life… except this one just happens to be the reigning…

  • Small investors get to play Dragon in new Jason Manford series

    Small investors get to play Dragon in new Jason Manford series

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    Jason Manford is to host a new “fast-paced and funny” businesses show in which ordinary people risk their own money to invest in the bright ideas and small businesses of hopeful entrepreneurs.

  • BBC names new bad guys for The Musketeers

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    Rupert Everett is joining BBC One’s The Musketeers as the show’s latest villain – Philippe Achille, Marquis de Feron, the corrupt Governor of Paris, Head of the Red Guard and illegitimate brother to Louis XIII.

  • BBC signs rights to all The Office US scripts

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    As well as completed programmes such as Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, BBC Worldwide also generates money by selling formats to overseas broadcasters. The Office is one of Worldwide’s most popular exports and the deal with NBC Universal allows it to boost the number of scripts available from the original 14 UK episodes to…

  • Video: Daniel Rigby in Undercover

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    The series stars Daniel Rigby as an undercover police officer who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth when he infiltrates an Armenian crime family called the Sarkissians. His day to day tasks mainly revolve around not getting killed and blending in with excessively violent gangsters. Couldn’t be simpler.