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TVPlayer to launch UK subs offering

UK over-the-top television platform TVPlayer will launch a subscription service this summer offering live streams of premium TV channels. TVPlayer Plus will offer upwards of 25 premium channels and roughly 100 hours of catch-up content a week for £4.99 (US$7.79) per month – with no fixed contract. Premium networks that will feature as part of TVPlayer […]

News brief: Alibi begins Crossing Lines

UK pay TV channel Alibi has acquired seasons one and two of internationally-coproduced procedural drama Crossing Lines. Both seasons of the show, which stars William Fichtner as part of a cross-border Europe-based FBI unit, will run back-to-back on the UKTV-owned channel this summer. Germany-based Tandem Communications produces the show in association with Bernero Productions, with […]

Alibi makes Reckless move

UK crime channel Alibi has acquired legal drama Reckless from CBS Studios International. The 13x60mins show will air exclusively in the UK on the UKTV-owned channel. Set in South Carolina, it follows a ballsy female litigator and a charming local attorney that are pitted against each other despite an obvious mutual attraction and a looming […]

2014 LA Screenings: Catherine Mackin, UKTV

As buyers flock to Los Angeles for the May Screenings, TBI speaks with key players about what’s on their 2014 shopping list What slots are there for US shows on your channels? We have 10 channels, several of which we acquire first-run content for from the studios. However, at the LA screenings we are predominately […]

UKTV ups Watsham after Rogerson exit

British multi-channel broadcaster UKTV has promoted Richard Watsham to become director of commissioning following former incumbent Jane Rogerson’s exit. Watsham takes responsibility for UKTV’s slate of original programmes, effective immediately, after being promoted from senior commissioning editor. He has worked at UKTV since 2011 and is credited with series such as Watch’s Dynamo: Magician Impossible, […]

BSkyB adds 14 channels to mobile service

BSkyB has added 14 entertainment channels to its Sky Go mobile TV service. New channels on the service include MTV, with Geordie Shore available on demand; Comedy Central, offering shows including South Park; UKTV channels Gold, Watch, Dave, Good Food, Eden and Alibi; Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet; and History, including […]

UKTV buys CBS drama for Alibi

UK digital channels group UKTV has acquired US drama series King & Maxwell from CBS Studios International. Based on the David Baldacci books, the series follows a pair of secret agents turned private investigators. UKTV, a joint venture between Scripps Network Interactive and BBC Worldwide, will launch the show on its Alibi crime channel in […]

2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Catherine Mackin, UKTV

Catherine Mackin is director of programme acquisitions at UK channel operator UKTV. It runs a suite of digital channels and in recent times has acquired raft of US shows for its Dave, Watch, Alibi and Really channels. As the LA Screenings gets underway, she tells TBI about what UKTV will be looking for this year. […]

UKTV orders more Castle and Body of Proof

UK pay TV channels group UKTV has ordered new seasons of US series Castle (above) and Body of Proof. The shows air on UKTV’s Alibi channel. UKTV cut the programming agreement, which gives it exclusive pay TV rights to both shows, with Disney UK and Ireland, which distributes the titles. Specifically, the deal covers seasons […]

Broadcasters sign up for more Miss Fisher

Several international broadcasters have signed on for the second series of Australian period crime drama series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. The show is produced produced  by fledgling Australian indie Every Cloud and based on the best-selling series of Phryne Fisher novels from Australian author Kerry Greenwood. The second season goes into production next month. It […]