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

Alan Cumming (The Traitors, Glenrothan) is Leo, vivid, funny and dynamic, he’s the owner of a bar called Spit & Polish in Manchester’s Gay Village. David Morrissey (Sherwood, Daddy Issues) is Clive, Leo’s unsmiling and troubled next-door neighbour. The five-part series will follow Leo and Clive who have lived next door to each other in Manchester for almost 15 years. But just as life should be settling down, the world around them is growing more tense. Words become weapons, o

Casting for Hamburg Days, a major new six-part drama charting The Beatles’ formative years has been announced with a first-look picture. Filming has begun on the series in Hamburg, Munich and Liverpool. Produced by W&B Television and Turbine Studios, and co-financed by AGC Television and German broadcaster ZDF, Hamburg Days is inspired by German artist Klaus Voormann’s autobiography and explores the band’s early evolution in 1960s Hamburg. The BBC have acquired the series for

ITV have commissioned six part propulsive, lunar thriller First Woman, starring Andrea Riseborough (Academy Award nominee for To Leslie, The Good Boy and Goodbye June) and Ashley Walters (Emmy Award nominee for Adolescence, Top Boy, Missing You), created by Lydia Yeoman (Curfew) and George Oakes, from his original idea, and directed by Emmy and BAFTA winning Philip Martin. First Woman will be co-produced by leading indie Mammoth Screen (Code of Silence, Towards Zero, Betrayal

First look pictures have been released for the highly-anticipated second series of Death Valley, the BBC’s record-breaking comedy-crime series starring Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth. Made by BBC Studios Comedy the series will air on Sunday 17 May at 8.15 pm on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Death Valley is a BBC Studios Comedy production in association with BritBox for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The unlikely crime solving duo make a welcome return as retired actor John Chapel an

Following the announcement of the next wave of films for the Play for Today strand, 5 confirms the cast starring in the six brand-new one-off films. Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, A Thousand Blows, The Thursday Murder Club), Joel Fry (Alice and Steve, Inside No. 9, Paddington in Peru) and Amit Shah (Murder Before Evensong, Happy Valley, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office) will star in Wild; a survival dramedy set in the breath-taking yet unforgiving Scottish Highlands. Lou (Mays), Dev

UKTV has secured the exclusive rights to the early back catalogue of iconic Australian drama series Neighbours, following a landmark content deal with Fremantle. The agreement comprises 420 30-minute episodes, taking viewers back to the very beginning of the series in 1985 and revisiting the origins of Ramsay Street, where its most iconic characters and relationships were first introduced. The deal between UKTV and Fremantle was brokered for UKTV by Jimmy Rumble, Global Acqui

The Fortune is a gripping, psychological drama that asks: what if your past isn’t what you think it is? Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day, Poldark) stars as Amanda Blakefield, whose life is a happy one with her husband, Jimmy played by Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small), and their son Luke, played by newcomer James Younger. Amanda has her world shattered after she is left an enormous inheritance by a man she has neither met nor heard of before. Her life star

The BBC has commissioned Dragon Slayers, a new factual drama exploring the work of Sir Harry Evans, former editor of The Sunday Times, whose Insight team became a byword for investigative journalism and broke some of the biggest stories in UK history. Emmy award-winning actor Matthew Rhys (The Americans, The Beast in Me, Widow’s Bay) will star as Harry in the six-part series from AC Chapter One and Universal International Studios for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, which will be w

The BBC has commissioned Reputation, a new drama from The Forge (Just Act Normal, Falling, A Woman of Substance), a Banijay UK company. The series is created and written by Anya Reiss (Becoming Elizabeth, A Doll’s House) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Reputation is an audacious and glossy new drama that shows what happens when a celebrity legal battle spirals out of control. The six-part series centres on Elaine, a formidable lawyer who has built her career defending free expre