UKTV

UKTV is the BBC’s UK commercial broadcaster which runs subscription channels such as U&Gold and advert-funded channels including U&Dave, U&Drama and U&Yesterday.

  • The Last Man on Earth wakes up on UKTV’s Dave

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    Starring Will Forte (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) and January Jones, and set in 2020, the critically-acclaimed series follows the comic consequences of Phil Miller (Forte) as he discovers he’s the only human left on Earth when a deadly virus wiped out the population. 

  • One to watch: Hoff the Record

    One to watch: Hoff the Record

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    The mockumentary series sees former Knight Rider and Baywatch star David Hasselhoff play a fictionalised version of himself who is forced to move to the UK after work dries up and his disastrous personal life leaves him desperate for cash.

  • 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.