UKTV

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…