UK TV

An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.

Tuesday’s “Channel 4’s new dramas, Fry and Laurie reunite, NBC’s pirate show and a Rob Riggle comedy” news

15 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

  • Alan Rickman to play Hilly Kristal in CBGB founder’s biopic

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Good Doctor with Orlando Bloom

UK TV

US TV

  • Richard Burgi to guest on Burn Notice, Gloria Votsis to return to White Collar
  • Oh wait. Season seven will be the last for 30 Rock
  • Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker to recur on Glee
  • Sunday ratings: Desperate Housewives finishes with 11.1m

US TV pilots

Monday’s “NBC, ABC, CBS and The CW cancellations and pick-ups with almost no surprises” news

14 May 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

What shall become of The Carusometer?

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Campaign with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis

UK TV

US TV

  • NBC cancels Awake, Bent, Best Friends Forever and Are You There, Chelsea?…
  • …renews The Office, Parks and Recreation, Whitney and Up All Night
  • CBS cancels A Gifted Man, NYC-22, Rob and Unforgettable…
  • …and CSI: Miami…
  • …renews CSI: NY…
  • …and Two and a Half Men
  • ABC cancels GCB, Pan Am, Missing and The River…
  • …renews Private Practice, Body of Proof, Don’t Trust The B—- in Apt 23, Scandal, Last Man Standing…
  • …and Happy Endings
  • The CW cancels Ringer, The Secret Circle, renews Nikita, Hart of Dixie and Gossip Girl
  • Jorja Fox to return to CSI again
  • Lost‘s Maggie Grace to recur on Californication
  • No end dates for Community or 30 Rock after all
  • Full trailer for True Blood season five
  • Thursday ratings
  • Friday ratings: Fringe ends with 14-week high

US TV pilots

  • NBC orders Next Caller Please
  • ABC orders Nashville, Zero Hour, Red Widow, Last Resort, 666 Park Avenue, The Neighbors, Family Tools and How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life…
  • …and Malibu Country
  • CBS picks up Elementary, Partners, Vegas, Golden Boy, Made in Jersey and Friend Me
  • The CW orders The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, Cult, First Cut and Beauty and the Beast
  • Infamous and Guys With Kids recasting roles

Friday’s “NBC and ABC’s renewals, Cougar Town moves and NBC and CBC’s new series” news

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Film

Canadian TV

  • CBC unveils 2012-3 season, including Cracked and Titanic: Blood and Steel, as well as the return of Arctic Air

UK/French TV

  • France’s Canal+ and Sky Atlantic to remake Sweden and Denmark’s The Bridge
  • Sky Arts orders Psychobitches, with Catherine Tate, Rebecca Front and Sharon Horgan, as well as a full series of Nixon’s the One with Harry Shearer, while Sky Living commissions The Spa by Derren Litten and Gates with Sue Johnston and Joanna Page
  • Next series of Top Gear postponed until 2013

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Luther creator to write NBC’s Republic of Pirates
  • NBC orders Do No Harm and Infamous

How much more Scandinavian content is there to remake?

10 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Bridge

So today’s news brings us not one but two Scandinavian crime remakes. First, we have the US’s Lifetime channel remaking Denmark’s Lulu and Leon, which sees a woman take over her husband’s criminal empire when he is put behind bars.

We also now have Sky Atlantic co-producing a remake [subscription required] with Kudos and France’s Canal+ of Sweden and Denmark’s The Bridge. Presumably it’s going to be The Chunnel/Le tunnel sous la Manche) and have exciting cultural clashes in both French and English between the reserved, rules-bound English detective and the more rules-free, salt of the earth French detective (Jean-Hugues Anglade from Canal+’s Braquo gets my vote).

There’s already quite a platter of English-language remakes of Scandinavian shows now, particularly in the US, what with The Killing already on its second season on AMC, Those Who Kill being remade by A&E, NBC remaking Borgen and so on.

Is there much left? Does anyone know? Any predictions on what the next remake will be, those who know?