Television
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Ofcom rules out review into BBC and Discovery’s UKTV deal
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Last month the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Studios, confirmed it had reached an agreement with fellow UKTV shareholder Discovery on a splitting up of the company.
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Diane Morgan, Sue Johnston, Bobby Ball, Nigel Havers and Kim Cattrall join new Gold sitcom
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Diane Morgan, Sue Johnston, Bobby Ball, Nigel Havers and Kim Cattrall are to star in a new three-part comedy series for UKTV’s Gold written by David Earl & Joe Wilkinson (Rovers).
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New Taylor Kitsch and Chris Pine dramas are coming to UKTV’s Alibi
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UKTV has acquired US shows Waco and I Am the Night which will air on its drama channel Alibi later this year.
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BBC Four acquires Norwegian drama series State Of Happiness
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The series is set the summer of 1969 in the small coastal town of Stavanger where the locals live off fish, and the North Sea is emptying out. No more cod, no more herring. Something has to happen. The town is in crisis.
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UKTV sees growth in audience share and VoD plays
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Multichannel broadcaster UKTV, home to a portfolio of channels which includes Dave, GOLD, W and Alibi plus multi-platform Video on Demand service UKTV Play, has recorded a 9% increase in its adult SOCI (share of commercial impacts) is 9.53%.
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UKTV Play introduces live streaming
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The broadcaster has introduced live streaming to its UKTV Play website and plans to roll out the feature to its mobile and TV apps in the coming months.