SUNNY NIGHTS: ITV ACQUIRES AUSTRALIAN COMEDY DRAMA FOR 2026

ITV has acquired Australian eight-part comedy drama series Sunny Nights from Cineflix Rights.

Sunny Nights stars Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden as siblings Martin and Vicki who set up their own spray tanning business in Sydney. The show also stars Rachel House, Jessica De Gouw and Miritana Hughes.

Darren Nartey, Head of Acquisitions at ITV said: "Sunny Nights is exactly the type of unique content that our audiences will enjoy; we can’t wait to introduce our viewers to this darkly funny series when it launches on ITVX in 2026."

Meanwhile, Channel 4 has licensed FX’s limited series Say Nothing from Disney Entertainment, based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The nine-episode series is a gripping story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and will air on Channel 4 later this year. 

Spanning four decades, the series opens with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again.

Telling the story of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, Say Nothing explores the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for all affected, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.

The series stars Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price and Hazel Doupe as Marian Price, young women who became potent symbols of radical politics. Anthony Boyle stars as Brendan Hughes, a charismatic but conflicted military strategist, and Josh Finan as Gerry Adams, a leading political operator who would go on to negotiate peace and has always denied having any involvement with the IRA. Maxine Peake stars as Older Dolours Price.

Say Nothing is executive produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, creator Joshua Zetumer, Patrick Radden Keefe, Edward L. McDonnell, Monica Levinson and Northern Ireland native Michael Lennox. The series is produced by FX Productions.

More details on both shows will be announced in due course.