Television

  • UKTV reveals new look for Really

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    UKTV is to rebrand its Really channel as it seeks to “shift viewer perceptions.” The lifestyle-themed channel draws audiences of around 4.7 million each week and has seen audiences grow off the back of major US acquisitions including Hart of Dixie and CIA spy thriller Covert Affairs which stars Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly). The shows…

  • UKTV to launch new Drama channel on Freeview and YouView

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    UKTV, the owners of Gold, Really and Dave, are to launch a new drama themed channel on Freeview and YouView. Named Drama, the channel will go live on 8 July 2013 and offer modern and classic British drama including Tipping the Velvet, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford. The channel is expected…

  • Midsomer Murders – ITV announces Barnaby’s new sidekick

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    Gwilym Lee is to joining Midsomer Murders as the new sidekick to DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon). The actor replaces Jason Hughes who played DS Jones in more than 50 episodes opposite both original series star John Nettles and successor Dudgeon. Lee will play DS Charlie Nelson in the new five-part series which starts filming…

  • Lord Sugar to step down from YouView

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    Lord Sugar is to step down as Chairman of YouView, the broadcast and streaming TV service backed by the UK’s biggest broadcasters and ISPs, in the next few weeks. The Apprentice star was called in to oversee YouView’s route to market after it missed a number of expected launch dates. His involvement helped the platform,…

  • BBC announces BBC Two HD launch date

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    A new HD version of BBC Two HD will launch next month, replacing the current BBC HD channel which shows selected content from BBC Two, Three and Four. The channel will be a simulcast network version of the BBC Two schedule and will go live at 6am on Tuesday 26 March. Announcing the launch date,…

  • SyFy announces The Man In The High Castle adaptation

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    Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel The Man In The High Castle is to turned into a 4-hour miniseries by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions. Dick used the novel to depict a startling alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The series will be produced by Scott Free…