Television
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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.
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Billions and Sliders star Jerry O’Connell is heading to UKTV’s Alibi
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Carter sees O’Connell (Billions, Sliders, Scream 2) play Harley Carter, a detective on a hit American TV show until he is forced to return to his sleepy hometown after an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood.
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Batman prequel Gotham is moving to E4
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The series, which stars Ben McKenzie as Detective Jim Gordon, David Mazouz as a young Bruce Wayne and Sean Pertwee as his ever-faithful butler Alfred, originally debuted on Channel 5.