BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 Team For Unique Broadcast Celebrating UK Free-To-Air TV In The Age Of Netflix

Jake Kanter International TV EditorComcast-owned Sky has confirmed that Sky Arts, its premium arts channel, is to become a free-to-air network in the UK from September.The channel will launch on Freeview with a mission to bring “more of the arts to more people.” The move comes in an environment in which the BBC is scaling back originals on BBC Four, which has traditionally been at the forefront of the BBC’s arts content.Sky Arts is famous for shows including Portrait Artist Of The Year, fronted

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentNewImages Festival has unveiled the XR competition lineup for its 3rd edition, running at Forum des Images in Paris from Sept. 23-27.

Kyann Sian-Williams how he launched an empireThe world has experienced a drill overload in the past 18 months as the Chicago-born, UK-raised genre finally made its way back home to the US last year.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Paul Dunthorne, a Channel 5 veteran who joined as part of billionaire Richard Desmond’s takeover a decade ago, is leaving the UK network’s parent company ViacomCBS.Dunthorne ran Desmond’s Portland TV and took Channel 5 under his wing after the business mogul acquired the broadcaster in 2010.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorFremantle label Naked has poached Fatima Salaria, Channel 4’s head of specialist factual, as its managing director after Simon Andreae was promoted to become Fremantle UK’s chief executive.The My Grandparents War and Putin: A Russian Spy Story commissioner will work closely with Naked’s creative director Tom O’Brien and COO Susie Dark.Naked makes shows including BBC Three’s Rap Game UK and was commissioned by BBC One last week to adapt Korean format I Can See

HELLO! reports. Appearing on the Emma Barnett Show on British station BBC Radio 5 Live, she revealed her inspiration: the (excellent) "Silver Swans" initiative for older dancers, launched by the Royal Academy of Dance.

The Mob is getting the spotlight.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorChannel 4 orders Spice Girls doc Rob Coldstream and Clare Cameron, the directing team behind Channel 4’s hit documentary Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain, are turning their attentions to the Spice Girls for their next project.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe UK version of NBC show Game Night is moving from Channel 5 to Comedy Central as ViacomCBS UK’s director of programs Ben Frow begins to make his mark in his expanded role.NBCUniversal International Studios-backed Monkey Kingdom will make 10-part series Comedy Game Night for Comedy Central after Season 1 was previously titled Celebrity Game Night on Channel 5.

Actor Sebastián Athié, the beloved star of Disney Channel Latin America’s O11CE, has sadly passed away at the age of 24.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: David Farr, the British writer behind The Night Manager and Hanna, is developing an adaptation of John Wyndham’s sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos for Comcast-owned European broadcaster Sky.Deadline can reveal that Farr is working to turn the novel into an eight-part series after it was the inspiration for two movies last century, both of which were titled Village Of The Damned.The TV remake is housed at ITV Studios-backed Route 24, which is run by

Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS’s UK network has announced that it will work with seven BAME-owned production companies on new shows following the launch of its diverse indie initiative last September.The initiative worked with the TV Collective to match black, Asian and minority ethnic-run producers with Channel 5 commissioners to develop ideas.