UKTV has announces that its comedy channel Gold will dedicate the month of June to celebrating the much-loved comedy series Blackadder, as the iconic show celebrates its 40th anniversary on June 15th. As part of the celebrations Gold has commissioned two new UKTV Originals, including Blackadder: The Lost Pilot (1x 80′), produced by Red Sauce, […]

UKTV has invested in the UK biography-writing service, StoryTerrace, via its multi-million pound investment fund, UKTV Ventures. StoryTerrace matches ordinary people with a professional ghost-writer to turn their life story into a beautiful book. The company has documented thousands of life stories with a network of over 600 professional ghost-writers globally, many of which have […]

UKTV has commissioned a third season of Secrets of the London Underground for its factual channel, Yesterday. Produced by Brown Bob, the previous two seasons have proved popular with viewers. The first season in July 2021 became Yesterday’s biggest ever launch of a new programme, and the second season was Yesterday’s second strongest launch in […]

UKTV’s free-to-air entertainment channel W has commissioned new UKTV original series, Katie Piper: Babies Behind Bars (5 x 60’). Broadcaster, author and philanthropist, Katie Piper immerses herself in the US judicial system to follow the delivery and often complicated processing of babies and children in some of the most talked about prisons in the US. […]

Roku has announced that The Roku Channel will premiere the Roku Original sci-fi comedy We Are Not Alone on January 27th. Written by Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond (co-creators and stars of Ghosts), the feature-length comedy is set six weeks after the Gu’un aliens have invaded and completely conquered Earth. We Are Not Alone explores […]

Figures from commercial broadcaster UKTV indicate that following a year of increased investment and focus on its free streaming service UKTV Play, it has grown direct-to-consumer views by over a quarter and added a further one million registered users. The network also achieved record SOCI (share of commercial impacts) in 2022, up 2.1 per cent […]

Hilary Rosen, UKTV’s Director of Commissioning has that Helen Nightingale and Mark Iddon have been promoted to Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment and Senior Commissioner for Comedy Entertainment respectively. Nightingale and Iddon will report to Rosen, with Nightingale overseeing all factual and factual entertainment commissions across the network, and Iddon leading on the comedy […]

Penny Brough, UKTV’s Chief Marketing Officer has announced that Nick Gilmer has been promoted to Marketing Director after joining the company in 2021 as Head of Marketing for Dave and W. Gilmer will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the UKTV marketing team across UKTV’s linear broadcast network and streaming service, UKTV Play. As […]

Thinkbox, the marketing trade body for UK TV advertising, is back on TV with a new advertising campaign from creative agency Mother London, directed by Jonny & Will from Blinkink. ‘Happily Ever After’ will be on linear and on-demand TV in the UK from December 26th. Thinkbox’s new TV campaign – its seventh – tells […]