England’s win over Tunisia proved popular with British TV audiences as a peak of over 18M viewers tuned in to see Harry Kane score a last-minute header against the African team. The game, which was broadcast on BBC One, averaged 13.73M across the whole game, peaking with 18.3M and … Read entire story.
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The BBC are having a hard time with their live feed of the World Cup today with its post-match analysis of France’s narrow win over Australia cutting out a number of times. The British public broadcaster will be glad that the technology failure happened after the match, so as … Read entire story.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Ruth Wilson is the latest A-list star to sign up to BBC drama His Dark Materials. The actor is signing up to play Marisa Coulter, one of the main protagonists of the eight-part drama and the former lover of Lord Asriel, played by James … Read entire story.
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X-Men and Atomic Blonde star James McAvoy and The Wire’s Clarke Peters have signed up to star in the BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy epic His Dark Materials. The pair will start work on the eight-part series, which is produced by Bad Wolf, later this month. McAvoy … Read entire story.
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Doctor Who writer and exec producer Russell T Davies is penning a dystopian family drama for BBC One, produced by Happy Valley firm Red Production Company. The British public broadcaster has ordered Years and Years from the pair, which will follow a busy family from Manchester with their lives converging … Read entire story.
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