UKTV

  • Really snaps up rights to US medical drama Emily Owens M.D.

    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…

  • Dave on demand player goes live on YouView

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    A new on demand player offering content from UKTV’s popular free-to-air channel Dave has been added to YouView boxes. First announced last month, the player gives viewers access to hit shows such as Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums, Ross Noble’s Freewheeling and Russell Howard’s Good News. The content will also be available via…

  • YouView celebrates first birthday

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    Today marks exactly one year since YouView unveiled itself to the UK’s tech media at a launch event held in London’s former County Hall. Unlike many of my colleagues, I left the event impressed with what we’d seen and expecting great things from the new service. I took to my keyboard and predicted that YouView…

  • YouView: Catch-up services accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing

    YouView: Catch-up services accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing

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    Connected TV platform YouView has released an infographic illustrating the findings of its 2013 census into national television habits. The poll of viewers reveals that use of catch-up or on demand (VOD) television services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player now accounts for a fifth of the nation’s TV viewing. YouView provides easy access…

  • YouView announces new catch-up and on demand deal with UKTV

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    YouView users will soon gain access to catch-up and on demand content from UKTV’s popular free-to-air channels Dave, Yesterday and Really. In July a Dave-branded portal will be added to the YouView on demand menu with content also available via YouView’s scroll back programme guide. YouView customers will enjoy demand access to hit shows such…

  • ITV revives Birds of a Feather

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    ITV has confirmed it’s reviving 90’s sitcom Birds of a Feather. The series, which originally aired on BBC One between 1989 and 1998, stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as sisters whose husbands have been jailed for armed robbery. Both Quirke and Robson will return for the new 8-part series alongside fellow original cast member…