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The United Kingdom has perfected the panel show in a way that other countries can't quite hack. A combination of quiz show and comedy series, panel shows have a basic game structure but are much looser and lower stakes than actual game shows; the game itself is merely an excuse for different comedians, actors, musicians, and celebrities in general to crack each other up. 8 Out of 10 Cats, Qi, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Taskmaster, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, and many others have provided years (and often decades) of laughs, and one of the very best of the bunch is Would I Lie to You?

Would I Lie to You? has had the very funny Lee Mack (Not Going Out) and David Mitchell (Peep Show) as team captains since it began in 2007, and has been hosted by the wonderful Rob Brydon since 2009. The truly hilarious show recently finished airing its 18th series,...

Quick LinksThe Pitt Season 1, Episode 13 Delivers More Fast-Paced Medical DramaThe Pitt Puts Its Medical Students in Difficult PositionsThe Pitt Gets a Little More Personal Than Usual

The following contains spoilers from The Pitt Season 1, Episode 13, "7:00 P.M.," now streaming on Max.

The Pitt Season 1, Episode 13, "7:00 P.M." is more of the same, continuing with the mass casualty incident that began in Episode 12. There's little explaining past the "previously on," so it doesn't feel like a traditional TV episode in any sense. That works both in its favor and against it as the Max show finally answers the question of where Dr. Robby's stepson is.

"7:00 P.M." is another blur of patients, with the doctors having to make more risky decisions as supplies have dwindled. The biggest news is that Jake and his girlfriend Leah are finally located -- but in true TV fashion, one of them has been shot.

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards have been announced!

The annual awards event recognizes the excellence in British television of 2024.

Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs The Post Office led the nominations this year with four each followed by Say Nothing, Rivals, Slow Horses, Mr Loverman, and The Traitors, all with three each.

The 2025 BAFTA TV Awards are scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 11 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England and will air live on BBC.

Keep reading to find out more…Keep scrolling to read the full list of nominations…

Best Drama Series

Blue Lights (BBC One)

Sherwood (BBC One)

Supacell (Netflix)

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC One)

Best Scripted Comedy

Alma’s Not Normal (BBC Two)

Brassic (Sky Max)

G’wed (ITV2)

Ludwig (BBC One)

Best Limited Drama

Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One)

Mr Bates vs The Post Office...

Many of the on-stage discussions in Series Mania have reflected a TV industry facing numerous stresses and strains and in the midst of a painful transition — especially from the execs based in the U.K. On Thursday, it was the turn of Ruth Berry, ITV Studios president of global partnerships and its new digital entertainment platform Zoo 55.

“What we saw last year was a perfect storm of macroeconomic challenges that were causing people to think about what they were programming, who their key audience was, who the key advertisers they needed to attract to their broadcast business,” she said, speaking on stage in Lille.

But Berry pointed to ITV Studios shows such as “Fool Me Once,” “Ludwig,” “Until I Kill You,” “After the Flood” and “Mr Bates Vs the Post Office” — which this morning landed six BAFTA nominations — as proof that the business was still experiencing “creative success” and was in “rude health.

Netflix's Emmy Award-winning Baby Reindeer led the 2025 BAFTA TV and Craft Awards nominations on Thursday with eight bids, including Best Limited Drama, a lead actor nomination for creator and star Richard Gadd, and two supporting actress nominations for Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. The limited series won several honors last year and through the winter, including Emmy Award wins for Gadd and Gunning, and a Screen Actors Guild Award victory for Gunning.

Three shows tied for second behind Baby Reindeer with six nominations: ITV's Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office, Disney+'s Rivals, and Apple TV+'s spy show and Emmy winner Slow Horses.

Other nominations of note, particularly for this current Emmys cycle, include four bids for FX's limited series Say Nothing and two mentions for Industry. The latter includes a lead actress nomination for star Marisa Abela, who shined during the show's breakout third season last year,...

ITV Studios sales boss Ruth Berry has called 2024 a “bittersweet” year for international TV drama, with an “incredibly successful creative” 12 months tempered by a “perfect storm of macroeconomic challenges.”

In a conversation during her Lille Dialogues session at Series Mania, the Itvs President of Global Partnerships and Zoo5 pointed to ITV’s production arm launching the likes of Fool Me Once, Until I Kill You, After the Flood, Mr Bates Vs the Post Office and Ludwig – the latter of which has sold to 85 territories – as examples of the creative boom and of the biz remaining in “rude health.”

However, “What we saw last year was a perfect storm of macroeconomic challenges that were causing people to think about what they were programming, who their key audience was, who the key advertisers they needed to attract to their broadcast business,” she added.

“When that happens you do have to look at your content strategy.

Rivals, Industry and Alma’s Not Normal were among the winners at the U.K.’s Royal Television Society Program Awards Tuesday night.

Across the 29 competitive categories, the BBC led with 16 wins, including for Sophie Willan’s sitcom Alma’s Not Normal and Steven Knight’s musical This Town, which took home the newly combined award for limited series and single drama.

Elsewhere, Danny Dyer took best supporting actor — male for his outing in Disney+’s hit drama Rivals, which also earned Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade the writing prize for drama as judges assessed the Jilly Cooper adaptation as “bold and totally assured in its very distinctive tone and style.”

Continuing to impress is Richard Gadd’s Netflix limited series Baby Reindeer as Golden Globe winner Jessica Gunning won the Rts Programme Award in the best supporting actor — female category.

James Coren and Ruth Jones, creators of the hugely popular hit Gavin & Stacey,...

David Mitchell is brilliant — no, not the Cloud Atlas author, but the equally British talent known for his great comedic work with Robert Webb, as William Shakespeare (Upstart Crow), and as a team captain of arguably the funniest British panel show of the past decade and more (Would I Lie to You?). Even those unforgettable series haven't made the popular dent that his latest show, Ludwig, has. The crime dramedy became the BBC's most-watched new scripted show since 2022, with the second episode bringing in 9.5 million views.

The delightful series stars Mitchell as John, a hermetic puzzle-maker whose twin brother, detective James Taylor, goes missing. When his sister-in-law (the wonderful Anna Maxwell Martin) asks him for help, John impersonates his twin in order to sneak into his office, grab some information, and leave without anyone noticing. Things get, well, a bit more complicated than that. Mitchell recently spoke with MovieWeb...

Ludwig has charmed viewers and critics alike. The British detective series balances comedy and drama with ease, focusing mainly on the comedy as David Mitchell‘s titular character, John “Ludwig” Taylor (a professional word puzzle creator), goes undercover as his missing detective twin brother. While searching for clues about his brother’s disappearance, Ludwig (real name John) discovers that legal mysteries really just puzzles, puzzles he’s uniquely equipped to solve. There are six episodes in Ludwig Season 1. The first debuted on Thursday, March 20, on BritBox following its BBC One and BBC iPlayer premiere in the U.K. on September 25, 2024. After raking in 9.5 million viewers across 28 days, it became BBC’s biggest new scripted series since 2022. Will Ludwig be back for more? Here’s everything we know about the show’s future. Will there be a Ludwig Season 2? Yes! Ludwig was renewed for a second season by BBC One in...

David Mitchell is causing double the trouble in Ludwig, the latest British television hit to make its way to U.S. audiences via BritBox. Ludwig sees the star of Peep Show playing John "Ludwig" Taylor, a reclusive puzzle creator who is asked to impersonate his detective brother James, in hopes of finding out where his brother vanished to. It's one-part detective drama and one-part workplace comedy, and it's been a smash hit with audiences.

In an interview with Cbr, Mitchell spoke about how his love of detective dramas motivated him to add Ludwig to his already lengthy resume. He discussed the process of having to portray John playing James, and working alongside Line of Duty alum Anna Maxwell Martin. Plus, he teased what he's looking forward to in Ludwig Series 2.

Cbr: The British detective drama has become a staple in television around the world. What motivated you to want to...

The following contains light spoilers for Ludwig Series 1, Episode 1, now streaming on BritBox.

David Mitchell has carved out his space in British television by playing charmingly strange characters, and that trend continues with Ludwig, the new detective comedy-drama coming to BritBox after its successful outing on BBC One. Mitchell is neither creator nor writer on Ludwig -- that would be Mark Brotherhood -- but the show feels like it was tailored to him. It's a mystery series, but at its heart, it's a workplace comedy that's just got some dead bodies in it.

Ludwig is titled after the nickname of John Taylor, a reclusive character who crafts newspaper puzzles. But when John's straight-laced twin brother James goes missing, his wife Lucy recruits John to pose as James and look for clues about his disappearance. Naturally, this half-cocked scheme spins out of control, and what follows will be immediately addictive to...

Image Credit (Samuel Dore/Mammoth) // Image Credit (top-left only): Copyright ITV Today, BritBox and ITV released a selection of first-look images of Code of Silence, a gripping new six-part crime thriller starring Rose Ayling-Ellis (Ludwig, Signs for Change) in a groundbreaking lead role. Created by Catherine Moulton (Baptiste, Hijack), who drew on her own experiences with lip-reading and hearing loss, Code …

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David Mitchell stars as John “Ludwig” Taylor, a reclusive but brilliant puzzle maker who’s facing one big conundrum in the cozy BritBox comedy Ludwig (premiering with two episodes on March 20 in the U.S.). When his semi-estranged twin brother, a detective, goes missing, he agrees to step into his shoes as a one-time favor for his beloved sister-in-law, Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin)… and winds up having to solve a murder. Thankfully, Ludwig’s puzzle-solving brain makes him a whiz, Mitchell tells TV Insider, adding that the premise is a physical comedy gold mine. “The thing that first drew me to the project, comically, is that once you accept the premise that he absolutely looks identical to his brother, that there is no one who will not accept that he’s his brother, that just frees it up for so much comedy.” Ludwig can “fail to such a greater extent...

Back in September 2024, British comedic icon David Mitchell, fondly known for his starring roles in the likes of Peep Show and Upstart Crow, officially returned with the brand-new, heartwarming detective series Ludwig. Little did any of the folks involved quite expect the show to become as big of a hit as it did, with more than 9.5 million viewers tuning in within the first month alone, quickly leading to a second-season renewal.

Today, BritBox and ITV released a selection of first-look images from Code of Silence, a gripping new six-part crime thriller starring Rose Ayling-Ellis. Code of Silence will premiere on BritBox in the U.S. and Canada later this year.

Created by Catherine Moulton, who drew on her own experiences with lip-reading and hearing loss, Code of Silence offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on the intersection of crime and communication.

Photo courtesy of ITV

The series delivers a gripping and emotional narrative that brings an important representation of the Deaf community together with the support of a diverse cast and crew from the deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse communities.

Joining Rose is an impressive ensemble cast, including Kieron Moore, Charlotte Ritchie, and Andrew Buchan.

Photo courtesy of Samuel Dore/Mammoth

At the heart of the series is Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis), a smart and determined Deaf woman. Having spent years working...

In this era when it’s difficult to turn one’s head without being bombarded by a barrage of news more distressing than what graced headlines the day prior or a new horrific global event worse than the last, there’s nothing like a cozy mystery to pivot attention towards something far less sad and far more of an unabashed delight. Enter “Ludwig,” where any show easily explained in one sentence couldn’t be off to a better start.

Continue reading ‘Ludwig’ Review: From Solving Puzzles To Solving Murders, This Is One Charming Show at The Playlist.

David Mitchell is a little coy while discussing how he onboarded Ludwig. “As far as I know,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter, “it was thought up with me in mind!”

The actor and comedian is beloved in the U.K. for his starring role in Peep Show and on the British panel show Would I Lie to You?, so it was a no-brainer for creator Mark Brotherhood when he got wind that Mitchell, inspired by his own love of crime and mystery shows, was looking for a detective role.

“I grew up with Inspector Morse and Miss Marple and Poirot and all that,” Mitchell says. “It’s a kind of television I love watching so I’ve long wanted to be in one.” Fast forward a few years and his latest dry-humored, endearingly grumpy success has come in the form of John “Ludwig” Taylor, the titular character of the BBC...

England Soccer Doc ‘The New Generation’ Launching On Prime Video Next Weekend

Prime Video is spotlighting the next talented crop of England soccer stars via a feature doc launching next Saturday. England Lions: The New Generation followed the likes of fan favorite Cole Palmer, Kobbie Mainoo, Marc Guehi and Ollie Watkins as they embarked on last summer’s European Championships, which England lost in the final – its second consecutive Euro finals loss. The doc combines match footage along with behind the scenes interviews with the soccer players and their families. Produced by Banijay’s Workerbee, The New Generation is Amazon’s latest soccer doc. The streamer has followed a wealth of different teams via its All or Nothing brand and also makes docs about players and ex-pros across all sports. Trailer can be watched above.

‘Amandaland’ Renewed At BBC

The BBC has given a second season to Sharon Horgan’s Motherland spin-off Amandaland.

One day longer and hosting unveils of big, big must-check-out series such as Paramount’s “King & Conqueror,” Fremantle’s “Sandokan” and BBC Studios reboot “Walking With Dinosaurs,” this week’s London TV Screenings did nothing to dent its recent status in a new biz order as one of Europe’s two key TV markets alongside October’s Mipcom.

It was these titles and a brace of classy star-studded crime thrillers – Andrew Lincoln’s “Cold Water,” Jesse Williams’ “Costiera,” Mark Gatiss’ “Bookish,” “Maigret” with Benjamin Wainwright – which looked to be moving the needle at this year’s London Screenings, which unspooled Feb. 23-28.

“We are very positively surprised to see that the London TV Screenings has quickly become a key gathering for European fiction,” said José Antonio Salso at Spain’s Atresmedia TV.

“Companies have presented and screened productions with high production value which are sure to be successful.” They...

ITV’s Big London TV Screenings

ITV Studios has announced a series of international sales for the hit detective comedy “Ludwig,” which will air in 85 markets worldwide. Produced by Big Talk Studios and co-produced with That Mitchell and Webb Company, the series was the BBC’s biggest new scripted show of 2024, attracting over 9.5 million viewers. The show has been acquired by major broadcasters, including Zdf in Germany, Svt in Sweden, and BBC First in Africa. In the Asia Pacific region, “Ludwig” will premiere in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, among other territories. Season one will debut in the U.S. and Canada on BritBox on March 20.

ITV Studios and Zhejiang Media Group have partnered to co-develop unscripted content for local and global markets. With Zhejiang’s expertise in high-end non-scripted shows and ITV’s global reach through hits like “The Voice” and “Hell’s Kitchen,” the collaboration aims to create fresh formats.

Vice Studios has signed a distribution deal with ITV Studios, marking the end of a nine-month search.

Announced this morning at the London TV Screenings, the deal will see ITV Studios add what was described as nearly 2,000 hours of Vice content to its catalog and represent future Vice Studios’ projects.

Vice content set for ITV includes the Dark Side of the Ring franchise, United Gangs of America, and Vice on HBO. ITV Studios’ recently launched label Zoo 55 will serve as the main destination for Vice content.

The deal was negotiated by Joe Patrick for Vice Media and Julie Meldal-Johnsen and Graham Haigh at ITV Studios, the production and sales arm of UK network ITV.

“We have been looking for a distribution partner that matches our creative ambition to work with us across our diverse and dynamic slate,” Jamie Hall, Co-President of Vice Studios said. “With their flexible, creative deal-making, digital first thinking and scale,...

Danny Dyer is on the awards trail for his turn in Disney+ series Rivals.

The EastEnders actor will compete for Best Actor at the Broadcasting Press Guild (Bpg) Awards, which is voted on by British television and media journalists.

Dyer starred as electronics businessman Freddie Jones in Disney’s series about sex and skulduggery in the British television business in the 1980s.

To win the Bpg prize, he will have to fend off competition from Lennie James (Mr Loverman), Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office), Eddie Redmayne (Day of the Jackal), and Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall).

Rivals, based on Jilly Cooper’s novels, will do battle for Best Drama Series alongside Baby Reindeer, Day of the Jackal, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and Wolf Hall.

Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning, a darling of the awards season, has been nominated for Best Actress, where her competition includes Monica Dolan...

BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in March 2025, which include everything from new BritBox Originals to classic British fare. BritBox is a digital video subscription service offering the largest collection of British TV in the U.S. and Canada.

The March lineup includes the comedic crime procedural Ludwig, starring BAFTA-winner David Mitchell, Steven Moffat’s Douglas is Cancelled, starring Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan, Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet, and Lost Boys and Fairies, starring Siôn Daniel Young and Fra Free. Keep reading to view the full schedule.

Ludwig

BritBox is the leading streaming destination for the best of British television and culture, offering the most comprehensive, must-see collection of British entertainment all in one place. The service provides a pipeline of exceptional storytelling and showcases the depth and breadth of British creativity from across the UK.

BritBox curates a quality selection of classic titles...

Channel 4 is bringing back its big guns with a Russell T. Davies drama and the return of a David Mitchell and Robert Webb sketch comedy after 15 years.

It’s a Sin creator Davies is making Tip Toe for Channel 4, which the network describes as “exploring the most corrosive forces facing the LGBTQ+ community today.” The show follows Leo and Clive who live next door to each other in Manchester. Leo runs a bar, Clive’s an electrician, with two teenage sons. But just as life should be settling down, the world around them is growing more tense.

Speaking at a Channel 4 showcase this afternoon in London, Davies said the two leads, who he described as “big names,” are “lined up just not quite signed yet.”

Tip Toe returns to Manchester’s iconic Canal Street, made world famous by Davies’ 1990s hit Queer as Folk. On Tip Toe, he is...

Anna Maxwell Martin is the latest addition to the cast of the “For All Mankind” spinoff “Star City,” Variety has learned.

Martin joins previously announced cast member Rhys Ifans in the alt-history drama, which was originally announced in April 2024.

As previously reported, the series will tell the story the alternative history of the space race like “For All Mankind,” but this time from the Soviet Union perspective.

The official description for the show describes it as “a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

British star Rose Ayling-Ellis is only 30 years old but has already broken new ground and torn down barriers left and right.

In 2021, she became the first deaf contestant on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing – and won the season. In 2022, Ayling-Ellis was the first celebrity to tell a bedtime story on BBC kids channel CBeebies, namely Raymond Antrobus’ Can Bears Ski?, in sign language. That year, she also gave the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, saying “I am disabled because I live and work in a world that disables me,” adding: “I am done with being the token deaf character.”

In 2023, she made her stage debut as Celia in Josie Rourke’s version of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and received the Stage Debut Award for Best West End Debut and an Olivier Award nomination for best actress in a supporting role. And in 2024, she worked...

Today, in celebration of National Puzzle Day, BritBox debuted the official trailer for its Original detective comedy Ludwig, which will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, March 20 followed by one new episode weekly through the April 17 finale.

The detective show broke viewership records in the UK, with more than 9.5 million viewers and a second season already confirmed.

In the series, puzzle setter John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor sees his life of solitude turned upside down when his identical twin brother, James, disappears without a trace. In a quest to track James down and bring him home, Ludwig assumes his brother’s identity – but by taking over every aspect of James’s life, Ludwig is forced to confront his issues.

Unlike Ludwig, James is no hermit. Far from it, in fact. He’s a family man who also just happens to be the Dci of a busy inner-city major crimes team.

For Ludwig,...

Get ready for your latest British mystery as BritBox makes way for the first season of Ludwig, and TV Insider has an exclusive first look at in celebration of National Puzzle Day. Set to premiere with the first two episodes on BritBox beginning Thursday, March 20, Ludwig is the BBC’s biggest comedy of the past four years, and it’s because of that popularity that it’s already been renewed for a second season. This means there’s no better time than the near-present to get started watching with Season 1’s arrival this spring. BritBox Our trailer offers a closer glimpse at the action and teases the titular character’s quest to impersonate his detective, identical twin brother who has gone missing, in order to uncover what’s happened to him. David Mitchell pulls double duty, playing Ludwig as he impersonates his brother to infiltrate the system. While Ludwig isn’t trained in law enforcement,...

In recent years, it has become a tradition for animated adaptations of beloved children’s books to grace our screens during the festive season. While this trend arguably began in the 1980s with Dianne Jackson’s adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman, more recent years have brought us several Julia Donaldson classics, as well as older favourites like Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea, both directed by Robin Shaw. This year, Shaw returned to the director’s chair for another Kerr festive adaptation, with the Lupus Films produced Mog’s Christmas, which has earned a nomination for this year’s Best British Short Animation award at the BAFTAs. Curious about the process of bringing cherished books to life, we sat down with Shaw to discuss the art of creating family-friendly films, the challenge of staying true to the original story,...

Exclusive: Mia McKenna-Bruce, recipient of last year’s BAFTA Rising Star laureate and star of Molly Manning Walker’s breakthrough hit How to Have Sex, has joined Claire Denis’ new film The Cry of the Guards. She replaces the previously announced Riley Keough.

The fast-rising British actress travels to the Republic of Senegal in West Africa next week for principal photography on the Denis movie with longtime attached actors Matt Dillon and Isaach De Bankolé, who starred in Denis’ 1990 masterwork No Fear, No Die and her films Chocolat and White Material, and more recently in The Brutalist and Black Panther.

Denis returns to the continent that defined her childhood to make The Cry of the Guards, which during development was also known as The Fence — and there’s chatter about it reverting back to that title — to film the intense drama focusing...

Cinematographers for Emilia Perez and Dune: Part Two are among the nominees in the feature film category for the 69th British Society of Cinematographers (Bsc) awards.

Paul Guilhaume is nominated for shooting Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set musical Emilia Perez; while Greig Fraser is nominated for Denis Villeneuve’s epic sequel Dune: Part Two.

Scroll down for the full list of nominations

The duo are joined by Lol Crawley – the sole British nominee – for his work on Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist; Stephane Fontaine for Edward Berger’s Conclave; and Jarin Blaschke for Robert Eggers’ period horror Nosferatu.

It is a first nomination for Crawley,...

The Damned (1969), followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973), is a historical drama film by Luchino Visconti and the first installment of the aforementioned German trilogy. Set in the backdrop of Hitler’s rise to power, the film portrays the steady disintegration of the affluent Essenbeck family due to the actions of one Hauptsturmführer Aschenbach, a highly influential and manipulative leader of the Schutzstaffel.

Events in the film are driven by real-life incidents that were instrumental to the transformation of the Weimar Republic (Hitler as Chancellor) to Nazi Germany (Hitler as Führer). These include the Reichstag fire and the Röhm purge, among others.

A Milanese nobleman himself, Visconti (officially The Count of Lonate Pozzolo) luxuriates in the decay of German nobility due to Nazi interference and the intrinsic decadence of the members of the Essenbeck family. As a result, The Damned presents itself as a detailed study of instability, sexual transgression,...

The cast of Max’s medical drama “The Pitt” is clocking in for their shift.

The series, which explores the everyday challenges healthcare workers face in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania emergency room, was produced by John Wells. R. Scott Gemmill will write the first episode and executive produce “The Pitt” alongside its star Noah Wyle, who plays Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch.

All the drama in the first season takes place over a 15-hour period during one shift at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Hospital. Here’s everything you need to know about how and when to watch “The Pitt.”

Check out the full cast below.

Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in “The Pitt” Season 1 (Max) Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch

Noah Wyle stars as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, the head honcho of fictional Pittsburgh-based emergency room in Pittsburgh Trauma Hospital. While Dr. Robby is still grieving over the death of his mentor,...

Some shows stay in limbo for years while fans wait for news of renewal, but many of 2024's best new shows have already announced their second seasons. This comes as a breath of fresh air in an era when it feels like more and more shows are being canceled. Some great shows got canceled in 2024, including a few that just aired promising first seasons, like Apple TV+'s Sunny. Fortunately, plenty of exciting new shows have avoided this fate.

2024 has offered great new shows in a variety of genres. From the historical drama of Shōgun to the cozy crime comedy of Ludwig, there has been something for everyone in 2024. Many of the year's best shows ended with agonizing cliffhangers, like Sweetpea and Rivals, so it's a relief to see that these stories will continue soon. These shows all made an imapct this year, but it's only the beginning.

Shōgun Shōgun...

American Idol will show off its new judging panel after the Oscars.

A special preview of the competition series’ new season will air following the live Oscars telecast on Sunday, March 2, on ABC. The program will provide a first look at some hopeful auditions and new judge Carrie Underwood alongside Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and host Ryan Seacrest.

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A Man on the Inside is a crime comedy series created by Michael Schur. Based on the 2020 documentary The Mole Agent by Maite Alberdi, the Netflix series follows Charles Nieuwendyk, a widower and retired engineering college professor who takes a job as an investigative assistant for a private detective and goes undercover in an old folks home to find the thief who stole a ruby necklace but ends up making friends and figures a way out of his loneliness. A Man on the Inside stars Ted Danson, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, and Stephanie Beatriz. So, if you loved the comedic story, crime mystery, and compelling characters in A Man on the Inside here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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A lot of great comedy shows have ended recently, but other shows have new episodes coming up for fans to look forward to. 2024 saw the end of several popular sitcoms that have been on the air for years, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, What We Do in the Shadows and Young Sheldon. Comedy fans might be looking for something new to fill the void left by these shows, and thankfully there are some hilarious shows that are due to return in 2025.

There are still plenty of great comedy shows on TV, and their varied styles offer something for everyone. Fans of dark comedy can look forward to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's return, Ludwig is a great pick for those who like British humor, and Rick & Morty ensures that fans of animated sitcoms have something exciting on the horizon too. 2025 could be a great year for TV comedies, and people...

UK network ITV is planning an additional £20M ($25.9M) in net cost savings, as impacts of the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes hit its production arm and broadcaster demand drops.

The broadcaster has posted group revenues of £2.74B, down 8%, for the nine months to September 30, 2024, with media and entertainment turnover, which includes linear channels, up 4% at £1.52B. Digital revenue also grew as streamer Itvx grew streaming hours by 14%.

However, today’s trading update revealed revenues at ITV Studios, the production arm that makes the likes of Love Island and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, had fallen 20% to £1.21B, which was “impacted by the expected phasing of production deliveries, which are heavily weighted to Q4, and the impact from both the 2023 U.S. writers and actors strikes.” The industrial action will see around £80M in revenue transfer from 2024 to 2025, ITV said in its guidance.

Lower demand from free-to-air broadcasters...

U.K. TV giant ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, reported a 20 percent drop in revenue for its ITV Studios production arm on Thursday, “impacted by the phasing of deliveries and the 2023 U.S. writers’ and actors’ strike.”

However, ITV Studios is on track to deliver record adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortization for the full year 2024, “reflecting efficiency gains and a significant fourth-quarter delivery schedule.” ITV Studios revenue is expected to decline in the mid-single digit percent range over the full year though. The company said that will be “only marginally down year-on-year (when) excluding the impact of the U.S. actors’ and writers’ strikes.”

Meanwhile, total advertising revenue was flat in the third quarter, as projected by the company.

And streaming service Itvx “continued to perform strongly with 14 percent growth in streaming hours and 15 percent growth in digital advertising revenue” in the nine months to Sept. 30.”

Full-year 2024 total...

David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin will return in for Ludwig series 2. More news can be found below these words.

David Mitchell has become a familiar face in UK comedy, whether trying to discern who’s telling the truth in Would I Lie To You? or as the uptight Mark Corrigan alongside long time comedy partner Robert Webb in Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain’s Peep Show.

He also took on the role of William Shakespeare in Ben Elton’s sitcom Upstart Crow, and reprised the role for a stage adaptation that opened in 2020 and then again when the play was restaged in 2022.

Just as Alan Davies took a left turn from stand-up comedy to drama in David Renwick’s superb Jonathan Creek, Mitchell recently moved into the realm of crime drama to play the title role in six part BBC series Ludwig.

Anna Maxwell Martin co-stars as Lucy Betts-Taylor,...

Exclusive: Ludwig has taken its first steps to a potential U.S. remake after the David Mitchell cozy crime series became the BBC’s biggest comedy launch since 2018.

Deadline hears that Big Talk Studios is entertaining interest from writers about adapting Ludwig for an American audience high on similar shows, including Only Murders in the Building. The series has been presented to the market and early talks are taking place with potential showrunners.

Ludwig was watched by 9.5M people on the BBC and the British broadcaster has moved quickly to renew the comedy crime drama for a second season. BritBox has also closed a deal to stream the first two seasons in the U.S. and Canada from early next year.

Created by Mark Brotherhood, the series stars Peep Show’s Mitchell as John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, a reclusive puzzle-setter who becomes an unlikely detective when his twin brother goes missing.

Ludwig fans can breathe a sigh of relief – or perhaps let out a triumphant, puzzle-solving yell. The BBC has officially renewed the David Mitchell-led comedy-mystery for a second season, confirming what many suspected: the quirky detective series is a hit. Boasting over 9.5 million viewers in its first season, Ludwig has become the BBC’s […]

BBC Renews Hit Comedy-Mystery Ludwig for Season Two...

Exclusive: It was the place where American viewers were always glad they came — and now the Cheers bar is hoping to open its doors to Brits.

Deadline can reveal that Big Talk Studios, the producer behind Stephen Merchant’s BBC/Amazon series The Outlaws, is pitching a UK version of NBC’s iconic comedy. Thirty years after Cheers’ last orders, Big Talk has enlisted Simon Nye, the British writer known for Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells, to adapt the series for a UK audience. Nye will be showrunner if Cheers is greenlit.

Cheers ran for 11 seasons and 275 episodes on NBC, depicting life in a titular Boston bar run by Sam Malone (Ted Danson). Regulars included Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), and the show is consistently ranked among the best comedies ever made.

Big Talk is in the early stages of pitching Cheers to British broadcasters...

In the second episode of BBC One’s Ludwig, John (David Mitchell), still searching for his missing brother, makes a breakthrough discovery: a coded notebook. Intrigued, he decides to visit the police station to gather insights into his brother’s last case. However, John’s innate curiosity soon pulls him away from this task, leading him to a […]

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