Television

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Plusnet launches new YouView-based TV service

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    The ISP launched trials of the service in December 2013, fuelling expectations that a launch would follow in 2014. Confirmation that the BT-owned ISP intended to finally launch the service came via YouView last month.

  • Smeggin’ hell! UKTV’s Dave orders more Red Dwarf

    Smeggin’ hell! UKTV’s Dave orders more Red Dwarf

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    Red Dwarf fans attending Saturday’s Dimension Jump convention got an unexpected treat when series writer Doug Naylor revealed that comedy channel Dave has ordered two brand-new series of the hit show.