BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial content studio and streaming business, is acquiring ITV’s 50 percent stake in BritBox International for $322 million. Announced last Friday, the sale will give BBC Studios full ownership of the BritBox streaming platform and values the streamer at $631 million. As part of the agreement, BBC Studios has extended its […]
It’s Simon Cowell versus Little Mix in a battle of upcoming TV talent shows. Cowell is launching The X Factor: The Band, a new format for ITV. The BBC recently announced Little Mix The Search, fronted by the eponymous band, which first came to the public’s attention after winning The X Factor. Relations between Cowell […]
Emily Watson will play a psychiatrist assigned to work with a woman accused of a heinous crime but who claims she can’t remember a thing in Too Close, a new drama for ITV. The series will be produced by Snowed-In Productions, which is a sister company of J.K. Rowling’s Bronte Film and Television. All3Media International […]
The U.K.’s two biggest broadcasters have ordered new seasons of audience favorites Call the Midwife, Endeavour, and Vera, guaranteeing new episodes of some of the most-watched shows on British TV. Season 9 of period drama Call the Midwife is about to go into production, and the BBC has greenlit two further runs beyond that. Season […]
Rob Lowe is to star in and exec produce six-part crime drama Wild Bill for British broadcaster ITV. The miniseries is produced by 42, Shiver and Anonymous Content. Lowe will play high-flying U.S. cop Bill Hixon, who is appointed chief of police in East Lincolnshire, a rural part of Eastern England. When Hixon arrives in […]
Amazon Prime Video and ITV have announced that Amazon has greenlit The Widow, an eight-episode Prime Original and ITV series, starring Kate Beckinsale (The Aviator, Love & Friendship). Written and executive produced by Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing, Fleabag) and produced by Williams’ Two Brothers Pictures, The Widow follows Georgia Wells (Beckinsale) who has […]
Amazon Prime has boarded ITV mystery crime drama White Dragon from Two Brothers Pictures, the maker of ITV/Sundance’s Liar, Cinemax/BBC One’s Rellik and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. The streaming service has taken U.S. rights to the eight-part conspiracy thriller, which will star Doctor Who and Mad Dogs‘ John Simm and The Casual Vacancy and Merlin‘s Emilia […]
ITV and Studio Ramsay have teamed up to produce Gordon on Cocaine, a new two-part series from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Britain is Europe’s largest user of cocaine, which is rampant in the restaurant industry. The show will follow Ramsay as he travels the world to uncover the secrets of the drug and the damage […]
ITV has paired with Amazon for the first time – commissioning a seven-part adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Mammoth Screen, the company behind ITV’s Victoria, and Amazon Studios will co-produce the 7×60-minute drama which is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and will star Olivia Cooke will star as the social climbing […]
Fox’s upcoming U.S. series “Lethal Weapon” is set to air in the U.K. on commercial channel ITV. The show, which was acquired by the Brit channel from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, is based on Warner Bros.’ 1987 Mel Gibson and Danny Glover actioner and tells the story of the classic cop duo Martin Riggs, […]
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