French broadcasters have acquired programming amounting to 100 hours from UK-based distributor Sky Vision. The deals include a 51-hour package to RMC Decouverte that includes factual series and minis such as Jesus: Rise to Power, Caught in the Act, Paranatural and Gangland Killers. A 15-hour deal with France Télévisions for France 5 sees the pubcaster […]
UK satellite channel Sky 1 HD has acquired TNT cop drama Legends. The deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution hands the BKSyB channel exclusive UK rights to the US drama. Legends counts Homeland and 24 producer Howard Gordon among its executive producer roster. It follows Sean Bean (Game of Thrones)as an undercover agent with […]
UK telco TalkTalk has extended its arrangement with BSkyB with a new deal that hands it catch-up programming from premium channels Sky Sports and Sky Movies. The new multi-year wholsale agreement means TalkTalk will continue to offers its pay TV customers Sky Sports and Sky Movies channels, including the upcoming European football net Sky Sports […]
UK satellite channel Sky 1 HD has commissioned a second season of Yonderland, its surreal family comedy. The new season, which Working Title Television is again producing, will launch in 2015. Sky Vision has international sales rights. The announcement follows the recent commissions of 8pm unscripted shows Welcome to My Garden and The Sun Set […]
UK satellite channel Sky 1 HD has commissioned a six-part comedy drama about a teenager living reaching adulthood in a small Northern English town. After Hours will follow James Tarpey (The World’s End) as an 18 year-old with no job or prospects who gets by listening to a local internet radio station. Jamie Winstone (Kidulthood), […]
UK satcaster BSkyB has acquired Fox’s upcoming miniseries thriller, 24: Live Another Day. Sky has scored the deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, and the Kiefer Sutherland-fronted reboot will launch in the UK at an unspecified date on Sky 1 HD. The 12-episode show, from Teakwood Lane Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox […]
Nickelodeon UK and BSkyB have jointly commissioned a new kids series, Jordan & Perri’s Ultimate Block Party. The live-action series will be made by Princess Productions, part of the Shine Group. Filming of the 8x30mins series starts in spring and it marks the first time Viacom’s Nick and News Corp.-backed Sky have jointly commissioned a […]
