Sherlock has earned 13 Emmy nominations today, only three less than ITV1’s Downton Abbey, and only four less than Mad Men, poised to set a new record as the most-honored drama in TV history.
Merlin actor Santiago Cabrera has been cast in the forthcoming seventh season of hit US drama Dexter.
Filming has begun on the second series of BBC One’s Death in Paradise, with British singer-songwriter Jamelia set to appear in her first TV role.
Comedian Kayvan Novak has secured his prime time chat show on Channel 4 as his character Terry Tibbs.
Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) and Brenda Blethyn (Vera) have been cast in Mary & Martha, a new 90-minute BBC One drama.
The makers of BBC One’s Merlin are considering a trilogy of movies, which could retell the show’s mythology from scratch, as a possible follow-up to its forthcoming fifth series.
Former Merlin actor Anthony Head will return to the show as a guest star in its forthcoming fifth series.
Sky Arts has added two controversial French TV series to its strand of foreign drama imports.
BBC Two has announced details for Murder, the UK debut of Birger Larsen, director of the original Danish series of The Killing.
ITV has announced the commission of The Making of a Lady, a one-off adaptation of a ‘forgotten’ classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden).