UKTV
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UKTV snaps up J.J. Abrams’ Believe
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UKTV has snapped up the rights to Believe, the latest drama from Lost creator and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams, for its channel Watch. Produced by Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, the series was co-created with Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and is one of the most hotly anticipated…
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TalkTalk’s new YouView ‘zapper box’ will let viewers pause and rewind
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The latest YouView box from TalkTalk will straddle the gap between traditional dumb set top boxes and digital recorders. The ISP’s new box lacks the recording facility of top of the range models but, unlike most non-recording boxes, will still allow users to pause and rewind live TV. It will also offer YouView’s standard 7-day…
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UKTV on track to spend £110m on programming
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UKTV – broadcaster behind the Dave, Watch and Yesterday channels – says it is on course to spend £110m on programming this year. The investment is helping the firm’s channels, which also include Gold, Alibi, Eden, Drama, Really, Home and Good Food, reach more than 40 million viewers every month. Recent original commissions include the…
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Tony Jordan to write new drama series for UKTV’s Watch
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Spooks and Hustle writer Tony Jordan has created a new 10-part series for UKTV’s flagship entertainment channel, Watch. Legion is the channel’s first original drama commission and will be produced by Jordan’s Red Planet Pictures. Announcing the series, Jordan revealed it would follow criminologist Nathan Jones who, after learning the devastating news that his 10…
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Yesterday snaps up new extreme weather series
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The impact of extreme weather conditions on major events such as the Hindenburg crash, the sinking of the Titanic and the Challenger disaster is explored in a new series set to air on Yesterday. The UKTV-owned channel has snapped up rights to nine-part series, Weather That Changed The World. The show uses extreme weather footage,…
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Really snaps up rights to US medical drama Emily Owens M.D.
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UKTV has grabbed the UK rights to CBS’s medical drama series Emily Owens M.D. for its free-to-air entertainment channel Really. The 13-part series stars Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife) in the eponymous title role – a geeky graduate leaving her days as an awkward student behind her and beginning an exciting new chapter as an…