On the eve of the commercial broadcast network’s Upfront Week, PBS announced its summer season will start with its remake of one of its most popular crunchy-gravel miniseries Poldark, and wind up with its first ever live natural-history event program, Big Blue Live. The summer also marks the third season of Derek…

UPDATE with New York Pride March news: A teaser for the second season of Britcom Vicious has landed (above) with the show soon to kick off on the UK’s ITV and due Stateside on PBS in August. Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi play Freddie and Stuart, a loving couple together (and bickering) for more than 50 years…

PBS officially announced a second-season pickup for ITV’s sitcom Vicious, starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. The pubcaster will debut the six-episode season in the summer as part of a lineup of British programming. The news follows the series’ recommission by the UK broadcaster.  Shine International represented Vi…

PBS‘ Britcom Vicious is retro in form, contemporary in subject matter and could not have been made on a U.S. network owing to the age of its actors, the creator and stars said today at TCA. Vicious stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as Freddie and Stuart, a gay couple who have been together for nearly 5 decades. The…

PBS has announced the premiere date of the Britcom Vicious, starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as a gay couple who have been together nearly half a century. The six-part series, which PBS acquired from Shine International in October, will air on Sundays and premiere July 6 at 10:30 PM. Meanwhile, Jacobi’s drama Las…

EXCLUSIVE: Upstart producer/financier Story Mining & Supply Co has teamed with Scott Free to acquire rights to the V.E. Schwab novel Vicious. SM&SC's Jeffrey Sharp and production president Evan Hayes will produce with Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer, along with Allison Gillogly. She brought in the book, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: Shine International has closed a deal with PBS on Will & Grace exec producer Gary Janetti’s British sitcom Vicious. The public broadcaster will air Vicious in the U.S. next year. The initial six-part series premiered on ITV in April and at the time was the highest-rated comedy launch on any UK channel in…

Will & Grace exec producer Gary Janetti created Vicious with playwright Mark Ravenhill. When the sitcom premiered on ITV last April, it was the highest-rated comedy launch on any UK channel in 2013. The first six-part series has not run in the U.S., but I hear negotiations are underway. The second series order was…