Television
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UKTV, BBC and FremantleMedia International announce new nature series starring Steve Backshall
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Debuting next year, Expedition with Steve Backshall will follow the BAFTA-winning filmmaker as he and a team of world-class experts descend a white-water river in the Himalayas, trek through unexplored jungle in South America; and climb mountains in the deserts of the Middle East.
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Superman-prequel series Krypton is coming to E4
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Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, Krypton follows Seg-El (British actor Cameron Cuffe – The Halcyon), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, who is faced with a life and death conflict.
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UKTV takes exclusive rights to Jodie Whittaker’s The Assets and Ioan Gruffudd’s Harrow in new Disney TV deal
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The Assets stars Jodie Whittaker as CIA officer Sandra Grimes and is based on the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed.
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New car-buying series is heading to UKTV’s Dave
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The half-hour format sees would-be car-buyers turn to presenters Rebecca Jackson and Elo, owner of The London Motor Museum, for help in deciding which set of wheels they to spend their cash one.
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Inside The Ambulance to return with two more series
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Made by Brown Bob Productions, the seres uses GoPro cameras mounted inside an ambulance and on crew members to get viewers closer than ever to the work of West Midlands Ambulance Service and revealing what it’s really like to respond to emergency calls.
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UKTV steps up funding efforts for original commissions with new exec hiring
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The broadcaster, which owns ten channels including Dave, W and GOLD, has been steadily moving away from back catalogue acquisitions in favour of original UK commissions and first-run major US imports in recent years.