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BBC/SundanceTV's 'The Split' to Call It Quits After Season Three - Global Bulletin Jamie Lang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In today’s Global Bulletin, BBC and SundanceTV announce the third and final season of “The Split,” Sky and XYZ Films prepare to shoot “Book of Love” and VIS Distribution adds 750 hours of content following its acquisition of Israel’s Ananey Studios.  TELEVISION Sister’s “ Abi Morgan and produced by Jane Featherstone (“Chernobyl”), Lucy Richer (“Small Axe”), with Dee Koppang O’Leary (“Bridgerton,” “The Crown”) boarding as lead di...

Fortitude) are set to star in the upcoming romantic comedy Book of Love, which will be a Sky Original in all markets of the Comcast-owned European pay TV giant. Set to go into production in March, the film — being made in association with BuzzFeed Studios — is co-financed by Sky and XYZ, which is handling international distribution in non-Sky markets and will introduce the project in advance of the upcoming European Film Market, the market of the Berlin Film Festival. Book of Love follows young, uptight English writer Henry (Claflin), whose novel is a resolute failure. He is delighted ...

Just 11 years after its first episode aired, Triangle’s pilot was rebroadcast as part of BBC2’s TV Hell – a night dedicated to some of the worst British television ever made. Among those also on the smorgasbord of rubbish telly were various embarrassing clips dug out from the Top of the Pops archive, Churchill’s People – a 26-part historical drama that was so poorly watched it changed how the BBC would commission dramas from then on, and Club X – a Channel 4 magazine show that was presented from the inside of a noisy nightclub.  Viewers may remember the glamourous Kate O'Mara, wh...

The comedy duo have a fizzing chemistry in a new one-off Radio 4 drama  Credit: REX When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion – or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse. French and Saunders have had fizzing comedy chemistry together on TV and stage since the Eighties, but radio drama is a less-ploughed furrow for them. Together they star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? (Radio 4,...

Graham Norton “Radio 2 has made such a fuss,” Graham Norton pointed out during his last show on the station. “They’ve put up tinsel.” After 10 years as the mid-morning Saturday DJ, Norton has decided to move on (to Virgin Radio, as it happens). Last Saturday was his last show. “This is it ,” Norton announced, one song in, “the end of an error.” Anything but. Since Norton took over from Jonathan Ross in the Saturday morning slot, he has been a safe pair of hands (not something you could always say of Ross); chatty (always good in a DJ), mildly waspish, and not too up hi...