UKTV

  • Virgin Media releases Android mobile TV app

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    Virgin Media has finally launched an Android version of its mobile TV service, Virgin TV Anywhere. The PC and app-based service is available to subscribers who rent one of the cable company’s TiVo set top boxes and first launched for Apple’s iPad and iPhone in September 2012. The company has also announced the addition of…

  • UKTV signs Dave merchandising deal

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    Fans of UKTV’s Dave channel will soon to be able to buy tie-in merchandise after the broadcaster signed a licensing deal with Evolution Europe & Rizon Studios Creative. The free to air channel, available on Freeview, YouView, Sky and Virgin Media, has seen audiences grow by 22% in the past year. UKTV hopes to cash-in…

  • Watch to repeat entire Babylon 5 from November

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    Early 90’s Sci-Fi series Babylon 5 is returning to British TV screens after broadcaster UKTV snapped up the rights to the show’s 110 episodes and six feature length telefilms. The show will air from 4th November on UKTV’s Watch channel which also airs Doctor Who and Torchwood. The series, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary next…

  • UKTV snaps up J.J. Abrams’ Believe

    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…

  • TalkTalk’s new YouView ‘zapper box’ will let viewers pause and rewind

    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…

  • UKTV on track to spend £110m on programming

    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…