Critically acclaimed and award-winning ITV drama series Prime Suspect, which starred Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, is to be remade for American audiences. Critically acclaimed and award-winning crime series Prime Suspect is to be remade for American audiences with the NBC network behind the remake. Prime Suspect originally ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006 on […]
Read moreThe UKTV network is considering snapping up Taggart should ITV decide to axe the long-running Scottish detective series.
Read moreThe second series of ITV’s thriller series The Fixer hardly got off to a brilliant start with less than four million viewers tuning in. The drama did however; manage to beat Traffic Cops on BBC One. The Fixer returned to ITV1 last night for the opening instalment of its second series but hardly got off to a flying […]
Read moreITV’s lavish adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights hardly set the ratings ablaze over the holiday weekend with only four million viewers tuning in to see the period drama. It was more a case of Wuthering Low than Wuthering Heights as ITV’s lavish and hyped adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic failed to set the ratings ablaze. The […]
Read moreWelcome to the August Bank Holiday edition of ATV Today Round-Up. It gives us a chance to look at some of the news stories from across the weekend that we didn’t manage to cover due to most of the staff having a weekend party in swinging Brighton with flaming Sambuca.
Read moreATV News round-up for August 31st 2009: Simon Dee dies, Paul O’Grady is reaching for the Sky and there is a new look for GMTV and This Morning.
Read moreGoodbye Big Brother, we take a look at Channel 4’s plans to give its schedule its biggest ‘revamp’ after ditching Big Brother from its line-up after a decade. Channel 4 is planning the most significant creative transformation in its history after deciding not to renew its rights deal for Big Brother when its contract ends in 2010.
Read moreIt’s been announced that Cheryl Taylor will become the BBC’s new head of Comedy Commissioning. Jana Bennett, Director, BBC Vision, announced today that Cheryl Taylor, currently BBC Executive Editor, Out of London, Comedy Commissioning, is the BBC’s new Controller, Comedy Commissioning. Taylor, currently based in Manchester, will take up the role in the autumn and will remain in […]
Read moreITV is to launch a new dating series which it hopes will recreate the success of Blind Date [pictured left]. ITV is launching a new dating series it hopes will recreate the success of Blind Date. The new dating series, based on the concept of speed dating, is from Talkback Thames – the producers of The X-Factor. Called Take Me […]
Read moreITV has commissioned a new seven-part Edwardian drama from the Oscar winning writer of Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes. ITV has commissioned a new seven-part Edwardian drama which will be set in a country house. The series is bound to be compared to the hugely popular 1970s series Upstairs, Downstairs which was created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins. […]
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