BBC & PBS Team For ‘Unsolved Histories’; Graham Norton Novel Set For U.S. Release; ViacomCBS UK Supercharges Streaming — Global Briefs

Imelda May has been announced to perform on an upcoming episode of The Graham Norton Show.

BBC Studios Inks First-Look Deal With Gobstopper Group BBC Studios has signed a first-look deal with Gobstopper Group, the company behind MTV’s Just Tattoo of Us and Revenge Prank With DJ Pauly D & Vinny. As part of its expansion plans, Gobstopper Group has launched Mermaid Studios in Belfast, helmed by Paddy Mckenna, the former head of development at Sony-owned Stellify, and Neil Dimmock, who joins from BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live.

Amanda Holden is being dubbed the next Cilla Black after being signed up by the BBC for a new dating show.

Ella Henderson and Tom Grennan are on course to claim this week’s highest new entry on the Official Singles Chart with Let’s Go Home Together.

Freddy Syborn, a writer and co-exec producer on Disney+’s upcoming Ms. Marvel series and co-creator of Jack Whitehall comedy drama Bounty Hunters, is adapting Daniel Cole’s Ragdoll for AMC and UKTV network Alibi.

Veronica Green has revealed she is yet to decide whether or not to take up RuPaul's offer to return to Drag Race UK next year after being forced to pull out after contracting coronavirus. Fans of the hit BBC iPlayer show were left shocked on Thursday night when it was revealed that Veronica, 35, had tested positive for the deadly virus during their seven month filming break, meaning she wasn't allowed to carry on competing in the competition.

PBS’s Frontline has acquired a 9/11 documentary from Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed after the film was originally commissioned by UK broadcaster Channel 4.

Tom Grennan has announced his biggest UK headline show to date at London’s Alexandra Palace later this year.The singer will perform at the venue on September 30 with tickets going on sale next Friday (February 19) at 9am GMT.

Baby Issac just turned 1 and Ashley Graham says she is ready for baby number two.

Public broadcaster PBS is looking to get involved in British dramas at an earlier stage to deal with the increasing competition from the streamers.

Naman Ramachandran James Graham, creator of hit ITV, AMC and Sony show “Quiz,” and writer of Emmy nominated “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” has created crime drama “Sherwood” for U.K. broadcaster BBC.Inspired in part by real events, the six-part series is set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where Graham grew up.

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham, the writer behind Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz, is returning to his Nottingham roots for a BBC One crime thriller that he is making with House Productions.

Graham Norton says he feels his chat show has got better than ever thanks to lockdown - despite being without a studio audience and having foreign stars appear via screen links. The host said the British studio guests are so delighted to get out of their homes and chat with new people outside of their family that they are opening up more and making the programme more entertaining.

Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“The Long Song” knows what an audience might expect from a period drama airing on the BBC, as it did in the UK in 2018, or under the PBS Masterpiece banner, as it will in the US starting on January 31. The camera, helmed with a steady hand by director Mahalia Belo, pans across still life scenes of porcelain curios and rumpled silks in a manse surrounded by gently swaying palm trees.

Miguel is set to be a mentor and judge on the new BBC Three streetwear show The Drop.The eight-part competition series, which is set to be filmed in Manchester, will see “10 of Britain’s most promising up-and-coming creatives – who all believe they are sitting on the next streetwear brand that is ready to make the leap from the bedroom to the global market – go head to head to win the chance to have their first line stocked in a major UK retailer”.Miguel will serve as one of The Drop‘s two