Bulletproof hits the target with record views and a second series on the way
Stars Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters will return as cop-buddy duo Bishop and Pike, who in series one saw family, friendships and loyalty put to the test in six episodes full of humour, emotion and action. Not to mention all the car chases. Blasting onto screens in May, the first episode of Bulletproof had a […]
Sky One Renews Buddy Cop Drama ‘Bulletproof’ For Second Season
Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters are set to return for a second season of Sky One’s buddy cop drama Bulletproof. Sky said that the first episode of the show, which launched in May, had a total audience of 1.59M viewers, making it the biggest Sky One audience of the year. Clarke and Walters star as Bishop and Pike, who in […]
Bulletproof Boosts Sky 1’s Youth Share
Vertigo Films and Company Pictures’ six-part action drama launched ahead of the channel’s Strike Back: Retribution’s 205,000 (0.9%) in the same primetime slot in November. However, it was no match for Sky’s recent dramas Delicious (281,000 / 1.4% in January) and Jamestown (403,000 / 1.9% in May 2017), each of which played out at 9pm […]
Bulletproof wouldn’t have aired 5 years ago “because it’s two black leads”
Sky One’s new cop thriller Bulletproof was originally developed almost a decade ago – but according to its leads Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters, bringing the show to TV would’ve been “an impossibility a few years ago”. The pair told Digital Spy that the six-part series was originally inspired by US cop shows and movies like the Bad Boys franchise. “I […]
Britannia Set for Second Season
Britannia is getting a second season on Sky Atlantic and the streaming service NOW TV. Filming is set to begin in spring for a two-season-two debut in 2019. Britannia was created by Jez Butterworth (Spectre), Tom Butterworth (Tin Star) and James Richardson (Monsters). Season two will be written by Jez, Tom and John-Henry. All nine […]
Britannia Rules the Waves
Sky Atlantic drama launched with 558k Once, as a poverty-blighted student, I visited a Britannia Building Society that looked more Dark Agey than the characters in Sky Atlantic’s latest yarn, which didn’t exactly rule the waves but did tack ahead of recent Atlantic big-spenders. Sky Atlantic’s Britannia launched on Wednesday at 2am with 292,000/19% (including viewers watching via catch-up during the day). Some 4,000/0.4% hardy souls tuned […]
Rule ‘Britannia’: HBO, Other International Buyers Snap Up New Sky Drama
Sky has secured a raft of global buyers – including HBO and Starz – for its new original series “Britannia,” a “Game of Thrones”-like drama set in Britain under Roman rule 2,000 years ago. The show was co-produced with Amazon, which will launch it Friday in the U.S. HBO has acquired it for several of its European […]
Gareth Edwards’ Sci-Fi Feature ‘Monsters’ Being Adapted As Television Series
British sci-fi horror film Monsters is being turned into a television series by Vertigo Films for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The feature was the directorial debut of Star Wars spin-off Rogue One and Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards. Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett will act as showrunner with up-and-coming British writers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing. It is currently in development with Channel 4 in the UK, […]
