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Netflix and Sky are co-producing for the first time on natural history series “Predators,” a six-parter that will follow six predators across changing landscapes. The series will premiere on Sky Nature in the U.K., Germany and Italy in winter 2022.

Other Sky factual commissions include “Gabon” (working title) that explores the story of a scientist from Manchester who became the Environment Minister of Central African country Gabon after forming an unlikely friendship with President Ali Bongo, which will bow on Sky Documentaries later this year, while “Death on The Beach,” which examines young travellers who have died under mysterious circumstances on the remote backpacking Thai island Koh Tao, will be on Sky Crime in March.

Elsewhere, following the Nov. 2021 launches in the U.K. and Ireland, Sky and NBCUniversal are continuing the rollout of Peacock internationally on Sky across Germany and Austria. From Jan. 25, at no additional cost, Sky Q...

Netflix and Sky are combining on a TV series for the first time, co-producing a blue-chip natural history landmark entitled Predators.

Sky hosts the streamer on its platform but the pair have never commissioned a series before.

The six-parter, produced by Sky Studios-backed indie True to Nature, will follow six apex predators including polar bears, wild dogs and pumas as they face the ultimate survival test in ever-changing landscapes, with a trailer teased today.

Predators will launch on the Sky Nature channel in the UK, Germany and Italy later this year and Netflix will take rights elsewhere.

The show is one of a trio unveiled by Sky Documentaries and Factual Commissioning Director Poppy Dixon today, alongside Sky Documentaries channel’s Gabon (working title) and Sky Crime’s Death on the Beach.

The former comes from Keo Films and tells the extraordinary story of a scientist from Manchester, who ended...

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Exclusive: to celebrate the release of the ITV60 DVD box set, here's a previously unreleased clip from classic children's show Rainbow...

Forget Marco Polo and The Power Of The Daleks, the true geek treasure at the end of the search for missing classic TV episodes is here. And it features Bungle.

Specifically, the main Bungle, Stanley Bates, joined by Roy Skelton voicing Geoffrey's fellow wards, Zippy and George. 

The clip below originated in a Boxing Day Rainbow special, and using our Bungle-senses, we've provisionally placed as coming from 1975 episode, Christmas Party.

The episode has since lain unreleased until Network dusted it off and included it among 59 episodes from other of ITV's classic fare on a DVD box set celebrating the broadcaster's 60th birthday.

You'll notice that Rod, Jane and Freddy are in fact, Rod, Jane and Matt in this one - 'Matt' being Matthew Corbett, who left...

"Charlie Brackett summed it up beautifully, I think, when he said that in Europe you could open a picture with clouds, dissolve slowly to clouds, and dissolve again to more clouds. In America, though, he said, you open with clouds, you then dissolve to an airplane, and in the next shot the airplane's gotta explode." —John Sturges

“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.” —Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

Who'd be a haruspex? In ancient Rome, members of this holy profession pored over the entrails of freshly slaughtered animals, seeking portents among blood and guts. Divination as a...

Actor Malcolm Tierney has died, aged 75.

The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.

Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.

In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.

Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.

He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.

Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.

Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.

Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...

Actor Malcolm Tierney has died, aged 75.

The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.

Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.

In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.

Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.

He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.

Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.

Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.

Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...

Hadrian's wall, Culloden, the poll tax, Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes, England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, look, we still don't want you to leave

1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.

2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.

3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.

4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...

Interview Rachel Bowles 28 Mar 2013 - 08:00

We spoke to wonderful TV writer David Renwick about bringing back Jonathan Creek, scrapped sitcoms, One Foot in the Grave and more...

Working in television writing since the seventies, and with a string of well-loved hits behind him including Not the Nine O'Clock News, One Foot in the Grave, and of course, Jonathan Creek, we spoke to David Renwick about bringing Creek back to the BBC, walking away from projects, and killing off Victor Meldrew...

So onto Jonathan Creek, first of all I was going to ask you about the three other episodes that have been announced for later this year...

Hopefully, hopefully.

Hopefully? Is it still dependant on something?

Well it might not happen if I fail to write something good. I shouldn’t be spreading doom and gloom and doubt and insecurities, although that’s my role! We hope to go into...

Johannesburg, Dec 30: Chris Brown will headline the event of Kora awards- the African Grammies- that is going to be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Sunday.

The 23-year-old rapper will stage a concert in Abidjan's main sport stadium for these awards along with several African artists including the Nigerian duo P-Square, who won the last top Kora prize in Ouagadougou, News24.com reported.

Some 30 trophies will be awarded, with singer Patience Dabany, the "mama" of African music and the mother of Gabonese President Ali Bongo, expected to receive a lifetime achievement award.

Frontrunners for the best African group are Abidjan's.

Every few weeks for the last year, rumors have gone up that Neil Gaiman will be writing an episode of "Doctor Who," and just as quickly Gaiman has shot down the rumors on his blog (which is an excellent read in and of itself). Well, the rumor has sprung up again with the resiliency of a Duggar dick near a fertile female, and this time, the news actually has been confirmed with Gaiman in an interview with SFX Magazine.

That much British awesome in one room is enough to get William Wallace to rock out a Union Jack tube top.

A life long "Doctor Who" fan himself, Gaiman has recounted watching the show from behind the couch since he was only three, which is actually four in American years. Rumor (oh that snide bitch) has it that the episode was supposed to be in the upcoming season but instead was...