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BBC Two has announced Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were, a one-off 75-minute documentary about the late comedian and his impact on the world. Sir Ken Dodd’s widow, Lady Anne Dodd, will be interviewed for the documentary.
Allan Heinberg, who worked on the script for Wonder Woman, has jumped ship from DC to Marvel. ABC has committed to producing a Marvel series from Heinberg, which will focus on female superheroes.
Netflix and Sky are joining forces for Ultimate On Demand, a combination of the Sky Boxsets catalogue and the Netflix streaming service, which will be available as a new Sky subscription pack for Sky Q customers.
Tom Hiddleston’s Loki and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch could lead their own live-action TV shows on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, a new report has suggested. With huge budgets, and Marvel Cinematic Universe stars in the leading roles, this could be a massive leap forward for superhero TV.
George R.R. Martin thinks that the Game Of Thrones TV series could have run for as many as 13 seasons. Pointing to his source material novels, the A Song Of Ice And Fire series, Martin believes the show could’ve gone on for much longer.
Netflix is making a live-action series of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The show’s original creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will helm this new version.
Matt Strevens, who joined Doctor Who as an executive producer for the show’s upcoming 11th series, has stressed that there will be LGBTQ+ characters in the new run of the BBC’s flagship sci-fi spectacular.
Riviera writer Sophie Petzal is heading to Channel 5 for her next project, Blood, a psychological crime thriller that will feature Line Of Duty‘s Adrian Dunbar. Virgin Media has snapped up the SVOD rights for the show, meaning that Virgin will have the boxset to share after Channel 5’s initial airing window.
With Jodie Whittaker moving on to a new form of doctoring, BBC One’s medical drama Trust Me is in need of a new lead. It’s just been announced that Alfred Enoch will be the show’s new star, as Trust Me forges ahead with a new central story.
The upcoming Titans TV series is a gritty live-action rendering of the Teen Titans comics, and it is set to be the first major original release on the newly-launched DC Universe streaming service. Ahead of the show’s release next month, some Robin-stuffed promo materials have been released.