Rick and Morty is to debut on free-to-air television in the UK for the first time after Channel 4 snapped up the rights to Turner’s animated comedy.
The British broadcaster will launch the fourth season of show on C4 with the first three seasons airing on youth-skewing network E4 from February as part of a deal that will see hundreds of hours of Adult Swim content being made available to stream for free on digital service All 4.
This comes after Turner’s Adult Swim handed the anarchic animated series a bumper 70-episode order last May as part of a long-term deal with the show’s creator Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. The show has been a huge hit in the U.S., delivering Adult Swim’s highest ratings in history and helped the show claim the title of #1 comedy across all of television for 2017 with millennials.
E4 will also...
The British broadcaster will launch the fourth season of show on C4 with the first three seasons airing on youth-skewing network E4 from February as part of a deal that will see hundreds of hours of Adult Swim content being made available to stream for free on digital service All 4.
This comes after Turner’s Adult Swim handed the anarchic animated series a bumper 70-episode order last May as part of a long-term deal with the show’s creator Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. The show has been a huge hit in the U.S., delivering Adult Swim’s highest ratings in history and helped the show claim the title of #1 comedy across all of television for 2017 with millennials.
E4 will also...
- 1/14/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
British broadcaster Channel 4 has appointed People Just Do Nothing producer Jon Petrie as a comedy commissioning editor.
He has produced all five seasons of the mockumentary comedy, which airs on BBC Three, working for Ash Atalla’s Roughcut Television as well as his own Roughcut-backed indie Little A. He also recently produced Stath Lets Flats for C4.
Petrie, who has also produces series including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Qi and Comic Relief, will join the channel in early 2019 and will report to Head of Comedy Fiona McDermott. He will work alongside Commissioning Editor Jack Bayles and Laura Riseam, who has recently been promoted to Commissioning Executive in the team.
Channel 4’s comedy slate includes Amazon co-pro Catastrophe and Hulu co-pro The Bisexual with new series coming up including Happy Af, Year of the Rabbit and Maxxx.
McDermott said, “We’re thrilled to welcome Jon to the team. He...
He has produced all five seasons of the mockumentary comedy, which airs on BBC Three, working for Ash Atalla’s Roughcut Television as well as his own Roughcut-backed indie Little A. He also recently produced Stath Lets Flats for C4.
Petrie, who has also produces series including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Qi and Comic Relief, will join the channel in early 2019 and will report to Head of Comedy Fiona McDermott. He will work alongside Commissioning Editor Jack Bayles and Laura Riseam, who has recently been promoted to Commissioning Executive in the team.
Channel 4’s comedy slate includes Amazon co-pro Catastrophe and Hulu co-pro The Bisexual with new series coming up including Happy Af, Year of the Rabbit and Maxxx.
McDermott said, “We’re thrilled to welcome Jon to the team. He...
- 11/14/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Facebook Watch has ordered a property series from British production company Barcroft Media. The digital platform is to launch five-part series Most Incredible Homes in a deal that is thought to be the first original commission for a UK indie.
Most Incredible Homes, which consists of 12-minute episodes, will launch on the service on November 3 with episodes dropping weekly. The show reveals astonishing dream homes from around the world. Each episode visits three incredible real-life homes to meet their owners.
From the luxury jungle tree house in tropical Costa Rica to the car-shaped home created by a petrol-head in Austria, the series travels the globe to experience the world’s most unique and extraordinary properties. Additionally, each week, the Most Incredible Homes community on Facebook Watch will get the chance to vote for their favourite property at the end of the show with viewers ultimately deciding which is their...
Most Incredible Homes, which consists of 12-minute episodes, will launch on the service on November 3 with episodes dropping weekly. The show reveals astonishing dream homes from around the world. Each episode visits three incredible real-life homes to meet their owners.
From the luxury jungle tree house in tropical Costa Rica to the car-shaped home created by a petrol-head in Austria, the series travels the globe to experience the world’s most unique and extraordinary properties. Additionally, each week, the Most Incredible Homes community on Facebook Watch will get the chance to vote for their favourite property at the end of the show with viewers ultimately deciding which is their...
- 10/22/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Crazy Rich Asians’ Gemma Chan is to star in an anthology drama series for UK’s Channel 4, written by Dominic Savage, the writer of Gemma Arterton-fronted feature The Escape.
Chan, who also starred in AMC and C4 co-pro Humans, will appear in the three-part series, as will Minority Report’s Samantha Morton and This Is England and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure.
The as-yet-untitled series has been developed and co-authored with the leading actors, with themes including relationships, identity and empowerment. The trilogy explores the experience of three women in moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal.
It is produced by An Idiot Abroad indie Me+You Productions with Savage and Richard Yee exec producing. Series producer is Me+You co-founder Krishnendu Majumdar with co-producers John Pocock (Chewing Gum) and Faiza Tovey (Uncle). The series was co-funded by Sky Vision, which will handle global distribution.
Chan, who also starred in AMC and C4 co-pro Humans, will appear in the three-part series, as will Minority Report’s Samantha Morton and This Is England and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure.
The as-yet-untitled series has been developed and co-authored with the leading actors, with themes including relationships, identity and empowerment. The trilogy explores the experience of three women in moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal.
It is produced by An Idiot Abroad indie Me+You Productions with Savage and Richard Yee exec producing. Series producer is Me+You co-founder Krishnendu Majumdar with co-producers John Pocock (Chewing Gum) and Faiza Tovey (Uncle). The series was co-funded by Sky Vision, which will handle global distribution.
- 10/12/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Clerkenwell Films, the British production company behind teen sci-fi drama Misfits and Netflix and C4’s The End of the Fxxxing World, is developing a scripted series based on the life of British entrepreneur Jamal Edwards.
Edwards, the founder of online video channel Sbtv, which was responsible for helping the careers of pop stars such as Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora, said that the series would be akin to Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, which debuted on E4 and is available on Netflix globally.
He revealed the news at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, where he was hosting a session titled Jamal Edwards MBE: Sbtv, Music and Mental Health with The Revolution Will Be Televised’s Jolyon Rubenstein. Edwards began his career filming videos on a UK housing estate and has since moved on to record interviews at 10 Downing Street and the Bermuda Triangle, which finding time to take selfies with Royal...
Edwards, the founder of online video channel Sbtv, which was responsible for helping the careers of pop stars such as Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora, said that the series would be akin to Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, which debuted on E4 and is available on Netflix globally.
He revealed the news at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, where he was hosting a session titled Jamal Edwards MBE: Sbtv, Music and Mental Health with The Revolution Will Be Televised’s Jolyon Rubenstein. Edwards began his career filming videos on a UK housing estate and has since moved on to record interviews at 10 Downing Street and the Bermuda Triangle, which finding time to take selfies with Royal...
- 6/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S. cable network IFC and British broadcaster Channel 4 have ordered Year of the Rabbit, a six-part comedy starring Toast of London’s Matt Berry. The two broadcasters have commissioned the show from All3Media-backed Objective Fiction after it was piloted by C4 last year.
The news was announced today at the Atx Television Festival in Austin.
The series follows a group of Victorian detectives; Berry, who stars in Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn and Matt Groening’s Netflix animation Disenchantment, plays Detective Inspector Rabbitt, a hardened booze-hound who’s seen it all, and his new, hapless, by-the-books partner, played by Parade End’s Freddie Fox. While investigating a local murder, the chief of police’s lewd but insightful adoptive daughter, played by Chewing Gum’s Susan Wokoma, becomes the country’s first female officer. Together, the trio must fight crime while rubbing shoulders with street gangs,...
The news was announced today at the Atx Television Festival in Austin.
The series follows a group of Victorian detectives; Berry, who stars in Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn and Matt Groening’s Netflix animation Disenchantment, plays Detective Inspector Rabbitt, a hardened booze-hound who’s seen it all, and his new, hapless, by-the-books partner, played by Parade End’s Freddie Fox. While investigating a local murder, the chief of police’s lewd but insightful adoptive daughter, played by Chewing Gum’s Susan Wokoma, becomes the country’s first female officer. Together, the trio must fight crime while rubbing shoulders with street gangs,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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