Sky Commissions The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
There’s only one Lisbeth Salander and THAT is Noomi Rapace!!
13th January 2026
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2025
ITV Commissions Winter
ITV’s Director of Drama Polly Hill and Drama Commissioner Callum Dziedzic have commissioned six-part police procedural, Winter, featuring an unconventional forensic pathologist, played by Richard Armitage (Missing You, Red Eye, Fool Me Once), whose brilliance, sharp intellect and rule-breaking approach helps the police solve some of the most complex murder...
3rd December 2025
5 Commissions Two More Series of All Creatures Great and Small
5 has today confirmed that treasured series All Creatures Great and Small will return with a double commission announced for series 7 and 8, each comprising of six episodes (6 x 60’’) plus Christmas Specials. The series, based on James Herriot’s cherished books, is produced by BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning company Playground...
20th November 2025
ITV Commissions The Party
ITV’s Director of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned The Party, a five-part drama based on the acclaimed novel by Elizabeth Day, starring Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers, Murder Mystery, Fast and Furious franchise and ITV’S The Pembrokeshire Murders) as Martin Gilmour, a journalist shaped by his lifelong friendship with the...
6th November 2025
ITV Commissions Four-part True Crime Drama, Believe Me
ITV’s Director of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned a four-part true crime drama, Believe Me, written by BAFTA and RTS award winning screenwriter Jeff Pope MBE, and produced by his production company, Etta Pictures, part of ITV Studios. Believe Me tells the story of three victims of one of the most prolific...
7th August 2025
ITV Commissions Second Series of Code of Silence
ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned a second series of the gripping thriller Code of Silence, following an overwhelming audience response and widespread critical acclaim for the first series, which launched on ITV1 and ITVX on Sunday May 18. Created and written by Catherine Moulton and produced by the...
9th July 2025
Disney+ Adds Three Reality Commissions
Disney+ dials up the drama with a brand-new raft of reality commissions including the return of Britain’s original and much-loved dating series “Blind Date”, reimagined for a contemporary audience. The ultimate dating series “Blind Date” is back – bigger, better, and bolder than ever. The new series will begin in...
1st July 2025
Channel 4 commissions Bonnie Blue Doc
The Bonnie Blue Story [W/T] is a Magnificent Pictures production, directed by Victoria Silver and edited by Kate Spankie. The Executive Producer is Mark Henderson and the commissioning editor for Channel 4 is Tim Hancock. When Bonnie Blue announced she’d “bonked” over 1000 men in 12 hours, the internet exploded...
12th May 2025
ITV Commissions Adultery, Written by Danny Brocklehurst
ITV COMMISSIONS PROVOCATIVE LOVE STORY, ADULTERY, WRITTEN BY DANNY BROCKLEHURST AND PRODUCED BY BEN STEPHENSON’S, POISON PEN STUDIOS “There’s a psychological equation. It says that ‘attraction plus an obstacle equals excitement’. But what happens if the attraction is too strong, if the obstacles are too great. What then? Do you threaten...
11th March 2025
Channel 4 commissions new comedy series It Gets Worse
Channel 4 has announced a brand new comedy series written, created and starring comedian, writer, and actor Leo Reich and produced by A24. It Gets Worse (6×30’) follows Ethan, Abi, and Sam – best friends from uni, soulmates for life, and dysfunctional roommates. It’s been a year since they finally...
26th February 2025
Channel 4 commissions Falling from Jack Thorne
Produced by The Forge Entertainment (National Treasure, The Buccaneers, Marriage), a Banijay UK company, Falling is a major new six-part drama written by acclaimed BAFTA award-winning writer Jack Thorne (Help, Kiri, His Dark Materials) who brings his first ever love story to Channel 4. Anna is a devoted nun who has spent...
12th February 2025
ITV Commissions Heist Drama, Frauds
ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned six-part heist drama, Frauds, starring BAFTA and RTS award winning actresses Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker as skilled confidence tricksters who’ve been separated by an arduous 10-year prison sentence. Sam, played by Jodie Whittaker (Time, One Night, Doctor Who, Broadchurch) has been...
30th January 2025
ITV Commissions The Hack
ITV has commissioned The Hack, a 7-part ITV Studios co-production with Stan, Australia about the phone hacking scandal written by BAFTA, Tony and Olivier award winning screenwriter, Jack Thorne, with David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones in leading roles and produced by the team from Mr Bates vs The...
29th January 2025
Channel 5 Commissions Bomb Squad: Trigger Point
Channel 5 has commissioned Double FTV, part of Freeform Productions to make Bomb Squad: Trigger Point, a four-part documentary series following the men and women who put their lives on the line to disarm and detonate thousands of bombs discovered every year. In this gripping documentary series, we’re on the frontline with...
22nd January 2025
C4 commissions LA fires doc
Channel 4 News and Current Affairs has commissioned ITN Productions to make a fast-turnaround documentary looking at the wildfires that have destroyed swathes of Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Inferno: LA on Fire will bring together on-the-ground reporting, the most dramatic images and a wealth of shocking user generated content...
11th January 2025
ITV Commissions The Dry S3 for ITVX
ITV has commissioned a third series of BAFTA-nominated comedy The Dry for ITVX, with the second series set to air on ITV1 from Sunday 12th January. The second series has been streamed 2 million times since its ITVX launch in 2024 and combined, the first and second series have enjoyed...
9th January 2025
2024
Channel 5 Commissions Brand New Thriller ‘The Rumour’
London, Wednesday 4th December: Channel 5 has today announced it has greenlit brand-new thriller The Rumour (5×60’), a co-production from Cuba Pictures and Clapperboard in association with Fremantle, who will distribute the series internationally. y text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since...
4th December 2024
ITV Commissions Third Series of Trigger Point
ITV commissions a third series of Trigger Point starring Vicky McClure and produced by HTM Television in association with All3Media International The second series, which aired in January this year, had audiences gripped to their TV screens, averaging 8.1m viewers across the series. It has been streamed 30m times on...
11th October 2024
BBC commissions a third series of Sherwood
Hugely popular, critically acclaimed drama Sherwood, written and created by one of the UK’s most celebrated writers, James Graham (Dear England, Quiz) and made by House Productions (Conclave, The Good Mothers) will return for a third series on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The second series of Sherwood, inspired by...
24th September 2024
ITV Announces Three New Weekend Commissions
ITV has today announced three new commissions for its weekend slate. Commissioned by Katie Rawcliffe and Leanne Clarke for ITV Daytime, the new series include: a fortnightly royal – themed topical chat show hosted by journalist Kate Thornton, a weekly cookery show with British restaurateur Nisha Katona and Prue Leith...
18th September 2024
Channel 4 commissions Slaying at Sycamore Gap
On the morning of 28 September 2023, news spread across social media that the iconic Sycamore Gap tree had been deliberately felled overnight. The tree had famously stood in a remote nook of Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland (a UNESCO World Heritage site) – a popular tourist spot renowned for its...
23rd August 2024
Channel 4 commissions Isle of Sh*te
Isle of Sh*te (w/t), a factual drama from the makers of Channel 4’s Partygate, follows the story of two unlikely detectives, who start to notice that the fish in the river running through their idyllic Oxfordshire hamlet are disappearing. They contact their water company to find out why, and the company’s strange...
19th August 2024
Channel 4 commissions Summerwater
Based on the Sunday Times Top Ten book by novelist Sarah Moss, Channel 4 has commissioned Summerwater, a new six-part drama series from Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund and Glasgow based production company Freedom Scripted, which has been adapted by screenwriter John Donnelly (The Assessment, Utopia, The Pass) and will be...
1st August 2024
Channel 4 commissions Trespasses
From BAFTA award-winning and double Oscar-nominated Wildgaze Films (Brooklyn, An Education), Channel 4 has commissioned the four-part series Trespasses, in association with All3Media International who will be the show’s global partner. Adapted for the screen in her first lead writing credit by rising talent Ailbhe Keogan (Bad Sisters, Run & Jump)...
1st August 2024
ITV Commissions Cold Water
ITV commissions new six-part thriller, Cold Water, starring Andrew Lincoln, written by award winning playwright David Ireland and produced by SISTER ITV’s Head of Drama, Polly Hill has commissioned Cold Water, starring award-winning actor Andrew Lincoln in his long-awaited return to British television. Ewen Bremner (Our Flag Means Death, Trainspotting),...
27th June 2024
Disney+ Announce Raft of Commissions at Series Mania
Today at Series Mania, The Walt Disney Company EMEA revealed a raft of exclusive announcements including four greenlights, as part of their upcoming slate of EMEA Original titles for Disney+. French Original drama series “The Lost Station Girls” based on true crime story German Original period dramedy series “Vienna Game”...
20th March 2024
Channel 4 commissions The Fear Clinic
Channel 4 has commissioned Wonderhood Studios to produce a new six-part fixed-rig documentary format in which people with debilitating phobias attend a special clinic in Amsterdam over 48 hours, where they will undergo a new, cutting-edge psychological treatment and face their worst fears. In the UK alone, an estimated 10 million people suffer...
18th March 2024
Sky unveils a host of brand-new unscripted commissions
Sky today announces an array of new unscripted original and exclusive commissions, coming to Sky Documentaries and Sky Arts across the next year. Coming to Sky Documentaries later this year, Klitschko: The Fight of his Life (w/t) directed by Kevin Macdonald offers viewers unprecedented access to former heavyweight boxing world champion Vitali Klitschko, along with his brother Wladimir, who...
22nd February 2024
BBC Arts Commissions New Elizabeth Taylor Documentary
BBC Arts has commissioned Academy Award-winning Passion Pictures to make an insightful new three-part boxset documentary series on one of Hollywood’s most famous names. Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar (w/t) Executive Produced by Kari Lia, Hamish Fergusson and Kim Kardashian, and will feature privileged access to those who knew her best,...
29th January 2024
2023
ITV commissions psychological thriller, Playing Nice
ITV commissions psychological thriller, Playing Nice, starring James Norton, Niamh Algar, James McArdle and Jessica Brown Findlay. Adapted by Grace Ofori-Attah, produced by Rabbit Track Pictures and STUDIOCANAL ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned four-part psychological thriller, Playing Nice adapted by Malpractice writer Grace Ofori-Attah from the best-selling...
21st November 2023
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