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Comcast-owned Sky has commissioned Last Week Tonight With John Oliver producer Avalon to make a quick-turnaround coronavirus show hosted by British comedian Russell Howard. Howard usually fronts Sky One show The Russell Howard Hour and had been on his third world tour before it was interrupted by the COVID-19…

David Schwimmer’s new Sky One comedy, about a maverick American intelligence agent and a hapless British computer analyst, will premiere on February 18, 2020. Schwimmer tweeted about Intelligence‘s launch on Monday, offering a first look at his NSA officer character and his inept counterpart Nick Mohammed, who wrote…

Sky has renewed crime medical thriller Temple for a second season. The Comcast-backed pay-TV platform has ordered another eight-episode run of the series, which stars Mark Strong, Daniel Mays and Carice Van Houten. Temple, which is based on Norwegian scripted format Valkryien, which aired on NRK, launched in September…

Sky Studios has signed development and distribution deals with Free@Last TV, the indie behind the Agatha Raisin series, and Icelandic producer Sagafilm. Under the “multi-year” deals, the Comcast-owned studio will work with the companies to co-develop new drama projects for international services. NBCUniversal Global…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has piloted a TV version of Spotify’s feisty, no filter podcast The Receipts as it experiments with bringing diverse new talent to the screen. Deadline has learned that the Comcast-owned British broadcaster worked with The Graham Norton Show producer So Television to record a loosely formatted episode…

Curfew gets its motor runnin’ this month. Spectrum Originals has set a June 24 premiere date for its street-racing drama from Sky One. Sean Bean leads an ensemble for the limited series that also includes Adam Brody, Billy Zane, Adrian Lester and Miranda Richardson In a near-future London, a mysterious illness has…

Michelle Obama will join James Corden in London when he presents The Late Late Show in the British capital for a third time. The British entertainer has persuaded the former First Lady to play an international game of dodgeball during the four-part run. Corden is taking on Obama in a Team USA versus Team UK game that…

EXCLUSIVE: Trainspotting and Once Upon A Time star Robert Carlyle and The Crown's Victoria Hamilton are to star in a British political drama for Sky. Catherine The Great producer New Pictures is making six-part series Cobra about what happens in the corridors of power during a time of national emergency. Pretty good…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky One has committed to the six-part comedy series Intelligence, which will star David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed. Schwimmer, who followed Friends with the small screen turn American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson, will be executive producer along with Mohammed. Mohammed is writing it and his…

Sky is doubling down on A Discovery of Witches – hanging the supernatural drama a bumper two season order. The British pay-TV giant has ordered seasons two and three of the Bad Wolf-produced series after the first season become the biggest drama on Sky One this year. Downton Abbey and The Good Wife star Goode stars as…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky is developing a police comedy starring Rogue One's Daniel Mays from Broadchurch and Tin Star indie Kudos. I hear the pay-TV giant is making a non-TX pilot, which has the working title of Code 404, written by Horrible Histories and Not Going Out writer Daniel Peak and is being co-produced by Water and…

Sky has cooked up latest high-profile comedy Hitmen, starring former Bake Off hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. The pay-TV giant, which had a busy weekend after Comcast lodged a $40B offer to takeover the company, has commissioned the six-part series to air in 2019 that will see the British presenters play a pair of…