More UKTV News – Page 25
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UKTV snaps up Disney dramas
UKTV has acquired a raft of high-profile Disney dramas including a Criminal Minds spin-off.
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Watch secures first AFP deal
Marco Pierre White and Blur bassist Alex James are to front Watch’s first advertiser-funded show.
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Catherine Tate to star in Gold comedy
Catherine Tate and Car Share star Sian Gibson are to star in Gold’s latest original comedy commission.
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Modern Life Is Goodish lands two more series
Dave has commissioned a further two series of Dave Gorman Modern Life Is Goodish before series three has aired.
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Watch hands RDF label first commission
RDF Television’s fledgling entertainment label Fizz has won its first commission – a gambling cookery format fronted by Marco Pierre White and Melanie Sykes for Watch.
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Turner hires UKTV commercial chief
UKTV commercial and business development director Dan Fahy is to join Turner to lead its UK commercial strategy across its kids and entertainment channels.
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Watch picks up Secrets and Lies
Watch has acquired Ryan Phillippe and Juliette Lewis-fronted US drama Secrets and Lies.
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John Thomson to front Gold stand-up show
UKTV has ordered a stand-up comedy clip show hosted by John Thomson in the guise of ‘PC Northern club comic’ character Bernard Righton.
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Dave buys The Last Man on Earth
Dave has acquired Will Forte-fronted apocalyptic sitcom The Last Man on Earth as UKTV continues to grow its US comedy output.
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BBC hires raft of factual commissioners
Darlow Smithson Productions director of programmes Rachel Morgan and UKTV commissioner Catherine Catton have joined the BBC as part of a number of factual appointments.
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The Farm to take on post for UKTV in-house team
Soho-based post-production company The Farm is to run the post operation of UKTV’s newly formed in-house creative department, which will produce more than 2,500 on-air promos and 300 pieces of navigational content from July.
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UKTV boss: TV risks losing talent to digital start-ups
Television risks the “catastrophe” of losing a generation of creative talent to digital start-ups unless it makes significant changes to its working culture, according to UKTV chief executive Darren Childs.
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UKTV brings promo creation in-house
UKTV has unveiled a production and post-production facility for its newly formed in-house creative team.
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Porridge writers pen royal sitcom
The creators of Porridge and The Likely Lads have written a single-camera sitcom about a fictional king as part of a trio of Gold commissions.
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UKTV prepares Watch re-brand
UKTV is set to re-brand pay-TV channel Watch to appeal to a more female-skewing audience.
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Liberty Bell rings up investment format for Dave
Liberty Bell is to produce an entertainment format for Dave in which ordinary people will risk their own money by investing in innovative ideas.
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School of Hard Sums heads Down Under
Fuji Creative Corporation has sold Dara O Briain’s School of Hard Sums to SBS2 in Australia.
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Dave plots move into drama
Dave will move into drama as parent company UKTV prepares to turbocharge the channel with a 70% increase in its budget.
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UKTV profits leap 10%
UKTV’s underlying earnings leapt by 10% in 2014 propelled by the broadcaster’s highest ever share of commercial impacts (SOCI), including a surge in viewing on demand.
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Dave orders two series of Red Dwarf
Sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf is returning for two series on UKTV’s Dave.