Filming has commenced on Reputation, the brand new legal drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, from writer Anya Reiss and The Forge, a Banijay UK company. The six-part series centres on Lena (Academy Award nominee Naomie Harris – Moonlight, Skyfall), a formidable lawyer who gets pulled into the celebrity case of the decade representing global pop star Davina Knight (Christina Hendricks – Mad Men, The Buccaneers). Also joining the cast are Alex Jennings (The Crown, The Lady In Th

The BBC has released a first-look picture of Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things, Industry) as Charles Shelby in the next generation of Peaky Blinders, written and created by Steven Knight. Produced by Banijay UK companies Kudos (SAS Rogue Heroes, House of Guinness) and Garrison Drama (Peaky Blinders series 1-6, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man) for the BBC in the UK and Netflix in the rest of the world, Peaky Blinders is currently being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios

The BBC has acquired The Uniform, a six-part Danish crime series from Fremantle’s Miso Film, for BBC iPlayer and BBC Four. Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby (The Helicopter Heist, Blinded: Those Who Kill), The Uniform exposes the deadly cost of loyalty and corruption within a fractured and fiercely competitive police academy in contemporary Denmark. A young trainee fires his weapon. One man is dead. And inside Denmark’s police academy, the fallout is immediate and explosive.

ITV and Tall Story Pictures announce filming has commenced on the latest series of the hit drama, The Bay. The sixth series sees Marsha Thomason (Cobra, White Collar) star as Morecambe MIU’s Family Liaison Officer, DS Jenn Townsend alongside cast regulars Daniel Ryan (The Hack, Dear England), Andrew Dowbiggin (Coronation Street) and Olwen May (Happy Valley, Riot Women). Suzanne Packer (Casualty, Keeping Faith) returns as Jenn’s mum, Anne Townsend, alongside Tara Lynne O’Nei

Acorn TV have commissioned a fourth series of hit detective drama Dalgliesh, with Channel 5 - who've co-produced and aired the first three series - departing the drama. Starring Bertie Carvel as the enigmatic titular investigator and based on the best-selling murder mystery novels by PD James, Dalgliesh is produced by New Pictures (Gone, The Long Shadow) in association with All3Media International and Northern Ireland Screen. Set in 1982, three new labyrinthine cases await fo

UKTV joins forces with BritBox and Sony Pictures Television for a co-commission of a new period drama Chocolate Wars (w/t – 6x60’), produced by Fable Pictures, in association with Alfresco Pictures, and written by Chloë Mi Lin Ewart (Curfew, All Creatures Great and Small, Beyond Paradise). The series will launch on free-streaming service U in 2027. Casting is now underway, with filming in Birmingham set to begin this Summer. Sony Pictures Television will handle worldwide sa

Produced by Hartswood Films, part of ITV Studios, and written by Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Dracula, Inside Man) in his first project for Channel 4, Number 10 is a comedy drama about one of the most famous addresses in the world. Leading the cast will be Rafe Spall (Trying, The English) who will play the Prime Minister, Jenna Coleman (The Serpent, The Sandman) as Deputy Chief of Staff at Number 10 and Katherine Kelly (In Flight, Mr Bates vs The Post Office) as Chief of Staff. J

Channel 4 and Roughcut Television(Little Disasters, Coma, Big Boys) announce the cast forWrong Move, the brand-new 6x60’ darkly comic thriller written and created by Ben Edwards (Coma, Miss Scarlet & The Duke), with filming currently underway in West Yorkshire. Leading the cast is David Thewlis (Fargo, The Artful Dodger) Trevor, a dangerous sociopath whose vengeful tendencies drive him to terrorise the group of homebuyers at the heart of unfolding events. Trevor's last-minute

Sky announced that Sky Original action thriller Prisoner, created and written by Academy Award® and BAFTA‑nominated writer Matt Charman (Hostage, Bridge of Spies), has been commissioned for a second series. Scottish BAFTA Award winner Izuka Hoyle (Boiling Point, Big Boys) will reprise her role as prison transport officer Amber Todd, with production set to begin later this year. Following its successful debut, which has already seen significant early viewing across all six epi

The BBC has announced casting for Wahala, the new drama adapted by BAFTA- nominated writer Theresa Ikoko (Rocks, Grime Kids), made by Firebird Pictures, part of BBC Studios, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The stellar female-led cast includes Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde, Cush Jumbo and Susan Wokoma, who are joined by Nigerian screen icon Genevieve Nnaji. Based on Nikki May’s debut novel of the same name, Wahala (a Nigerian word meaning ‘trouble’) is a gripping and surprisi

Channel 4 has announced further casting for Close to Home, a new four-part drama series produced by the multi-Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning Element Pictures, a Fremantle company (Normal People, Bugonia). Joining the cast are Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones) as Dearbhla, Conor MacNeill (Industry) as Marty, Gerard Headley (Specky Clark) as Finty, Kerri Quinn (Say Nothing) as Jackie, Hannah McClean (Blue Lights) as Bernice, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle (How to Get to

Channel 4, Sony Pictures Television and Playground today reveal a first look at Glenn Close as ‘Maud Oldcastle’ in UP TO NO GOOD. Based on Helene Tursten’s short story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed, the upcoming six-part drama is written by acclaimed playwrights Nina Raine (Bach & Sons, Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart), marking the first original television series created by the duo. The series is directed by Lee H

Channel 4 has announced Vengeance: Murder on the Heath, a 2x60’ factual drama that tells the story of the killing of 21 year old Gagandip Singh by his friend Harvinder ‘Ravi’ Shoker in 2011. Branded by the press as the ‘Honeytrap Murder’,the case garnered national interest for the part played by Gagandip’s friend Mundill Mahil, with whom he had tried to pursue a romantic relationship. Gagandip Singh, a talented young television entrepreneur and Sikh community influencer, cul

There is more mystery to come as 5 and AMC Global Media’s Acorn TV announce that much loved crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries is set to return for a fifth series. Created and co-written by Sally Lindsay, the show is co-produced by Clapperboard (The Teacher, The Game, The Good Ship Murder) and Saffron Cherry Productions (The World According to Grandpa) alongside Acorn Media Enterprises who also serves as the international distributor, holding exclusive rights worldwide ou