Sad news emerging from the British television industry: Emma Tennant, controller of UKTV, the joint venture between Discovery and BBC Worldwide, has died. She was 49. Tennant, also a former senior executive at ITV, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. I knew Emma well, she was incredibly warm, a hardworking executive who loved winding up journalists with a wicked smile and a sense of fun and trouble. I remember spending a week at the La Screenings as UKTV was…...
- 3/22/2018
- Deadline TV
UKTV has announced new Freeview channel Drama.
The station will launch on July 8 and feature shows including Pride and Prejudice, Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path, Sharpe, Tipping The Velvet, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford.
UKTV controller Emma Tennant said: "Drama is targeted at a different audience demographic than our other highly successful free-to-air channels, Dave, Yesterday and Really.
"The channel is aimed at people who simply love drama and want to watch critically-acclaimed shows that have absolutely defined the landscape of British television."
She added: "I am very passionate about the subject and discussing the programmes that will create Drama's schedule has just been brilliant fun.
"I'm genuinely excited about the launch of Drama both as a viewer and as controller."
General manager of drama Adrian Wills added: "Drama lovers' prayers have been answered.
"This channel represents the best drama content within the genre and...
The station will launch on July 8 and feature shows including Pride and Prejudice, Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path, Sharpe, Tipping The Velvet, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford.
UKTV controller Emma Tennant said: "Drama is targeted at a different audience demographic than our other highly successful free-to-air channels, Dave, Yesterday and Really.
"The channel is aimed at people who simply love drama and want to watch critically-acclaimed shows that have absolutely defined the landscape of British television."
She added: "I am very passionate about the subject and discussing the programmes that will create Drama's schedule has just been brilliant fun.
"I'm genuinely excited about the launch of Drama both as a viewer and as controller."
General manager of drama Adrian Wills added: "Drama lovers' prayers have been answered.
"This channel represents the best drama content within the genre and...
- 5/2/2013
- Digital Spy
New Us drama Do No Harm is to air on Watch in the UK. UKTV's new deal with NBCUniversal has also seen Watch secure the rights to future seasons of cult drama Grimm. Additional seasons of legal series Suits will also air on Dave as part of the new pact. "Do No Harm's exciting new twist on the Jekyll and Hyde story is original and out of the ordinary, making it a perfect fit for Watch and the ideal companion to established Us drama Grimm, which continues to attract a large audience," said UKTV's controller Emma Tennant. "Suits has also been a huge breakout hit for us on Dave, proving that Us drama can work (more)...
- 12/13/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Watch has announced that it will air Us drama Perception in the UK. The show, which has been renewed for a second season, stars Eric McCormack as an eccentric neuroscientist working for the FBI. UKTV's controller Emma Tennant has now announced at the Edinburgh International Television Festival that the show will be broadcast on Watch in the UK. Rachel Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan and Arjay Smith are among the other (more)...
- 8/24/2012
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
The latest Digital Spy live blog from this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival.is for the 11am session with UKTV controller Emma Tennant. Since taking charge of UKTV's ten channels in October, Tennant has been met with mixed fortunes - Watch and Yesterday are on the rise, but the likes of Gold and Blighty are in decline. Grimm was a big hit, but with the axed Alcatraz failing to make much of a splash, what next for Us imports? And can any of UKTV's original programming hope to match the success of Dynamo? And most importantly, when will Watch air the new Primeval spinoff series? Stay tuned and you might just find out... 12:00And that's a wrap on this session - stay tuned to Digital Spy for more news and live blogs from the Edinburgh International Television Festival. The next live blog is up at 12.30pm with BBC One...
- 8/24/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in the public's affections
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
- 9/9/2011
- by Blake Morrison
- The Guardian - Film News
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