ViacomCBS Networks Channel 5 & Network 10 Team For ‘The Royals Revealed’

Jake Kanter International TV EditorStarzplay has acquired the second season of Ramy Yousseff’s Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy for the UK, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. The streaming arm of U.S.

UK’s Sky network will feature new disclaimers for a handful of films on their service, including The Jungle Book, The Goonies and Dumbo.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: British broadcaster Channel 4 and Hulu are preparing to work together again on a second season of This Way Up, the comedy from Living With Yourself star Aisling Bea.Produced by Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s company Merman, the first season features Bea as an English-as-a-foreign language teacher trying to pull her life back together after a nervous breakdown.Deadline understands that Bea has been writing Season 2 during the coronavirus

Jake Kanter International TV EditorA group of 700 Black, Asian, and minority ethnic TV workers have written to UK networks and streamers, including Netflix, the BBC and Sky, and the government demanding action on racial equality.The letter, which Deadline has made available to read in full here, is the work of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic TV Task Force, which has swelled to hundreds of members after being established shortly after the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNickelodeon has a dizzying array of popular animated characters at its disposal. Now it has a few more: The Smurfs.The ViacomCBS outlet has struck a deal with the worldwide licensors of the popular blue figures, LAFIG Belgium and IMPS, under which it will launch a new animated series and manage consumer products licensing for the property across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAMC Networks’ Sundance Now has acquired Schiaffino Musarra’s Swedish crime comedy series “We Got This” from Banijay Rights for the U.S., Canada and the U.K.The show follows George English (Musarra),
 a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who sets off to solve the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 million Swedish crown ($5 million) reward can pay off his insurmountable tax bill.

Naman Ramachandran On Monday, Liana Stewart’s short “My First Time,” featuring testimonies from people who recall the first time they were racially abused, aired on U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, its streaming service All 4 and its social channels.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Dr Michael Mosley, a science and health broadcaster who has built his name at the BBC, is embarking on his first project for Channel 4 — trying to transform the lockdown diets of a group of Brits.Warner Bros.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorMaria Kyriacou, the president of ViacomCBS Networks UK and Australia, has been named as the new chair of Britain’s Creative Diversity Network.Kyriacou succeeds Jill Offman, who left ViacomCBS earlier this year, and will lead the organization until the end of 2020, helping it promote diversity and inclusion in the UK television industry.Kyriacou said: “I look forward to championing the vital work that CDN is doing at a time when actionable diversity and

Tim Dams ViacomCBS-owned ad-funded streamer Pluto TV has crossed the 100 channel mark in the U.K. with the addition of two new channels, Secret Dealers and Crime Investigation Australia.Pluto TV now has 101 special interest channels in the U.K.

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Prince Charles is opening up about the pandemic.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS Networks UK has promoted Gemma Hewlett to vice president of digital channels and Anna-Belen Dunlop to senior director of acquisitions.The pair will report to Ben Frow, ViacomCBS Networks UK’s director of programs, after he was promoted last year to take control of brands including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and Paramount Network in the UK.Hewlett, currently director of Channel 5’s digital portfolio, will spearhead the strategy across 5STAR,