Television
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STV Player is now available UK-wide on Freeview Play boxes and TVs
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The player joins BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, UKTV Play, CBS Catchup Channels UK and Horror Bites in the UK-wide line-up of apps.
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Shed & Buried moves to Quest
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Discovery has commissioned a third series of Shed & Buried which moves to Quest, its free to air channel, from the Travel Channel.
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Manhattan confirms padding & 3rd channel viewing are coming to its T3-R Freeview Play recorder
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Manual padding for recordings and the ability to watch, pause and rewind a 3rd channel while recording 2 others, are coming to the T3-R Freeview Play recorder.
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New Bear Grylls series – World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji – gets official trailer
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The series follows 66 teams from 30 countries as they race non-stop for 11 days across hundreds of miles of rugged Fijian terrain.
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UKTV’s Alibi orders new drama series from World Productions
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The Diplomat follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city.
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Lucy Liu’s Why Women Kill is coming to Alibi
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UKTV has acquired three brand new US series for its Alibi channel, including Why Women Kill, starring Lucy Liu (Elementary), Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon A Time) and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve).