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easyJet and Apollo Global Management extended their takeover timetable to 15 October for a scheme document as UK aviation regulators review the £5.7 billion deal.
ITV1 aired the second episode of Richard Armitage’s forensic thriller Winter on Wednesday at 9pm, deepening the Lake District investigation that debuted to strong overnight ratings.
Jimmy McGovern's Bafta-winning drama Time returns to BBC One and iPlayer on 11 October with David Tennant, Siobhan Finneran, and a young cast portraying life inside a youth offender institution.
Strictly Come Dancing returned to BBC One on Sunday night with new iPlayer chapter navigation letting viewers jump between couples' dances after each live show.
BBC Radio 1 has uploaded full sets from its Manchester Big Weekend to iPlayer after the May ticket sellout, giving fans who missed the rain-soaked main stage a legal replay window before rights expire.
Trafalgar Releasing's Saturday relay of Mozart's Così fan tutte from the Royal Opera House gives UK audiences a live cinema alternative to weekend streaming.
ITV confirmed it will keep Strictly Come Dancing results on Saturday night broadcast and ITVX simulcast after overnight data showed autumn premiere audiences ahead of 2025.
Netflix UK picked up domestic streaming rights to Adrian Lester’s Birmingham crime drama after its BFI London Film Festival opening night, giving the platform a prestige British title ahead of a crowded autumn theatrical window.
Warner Bros Discovery confirmed a nationwide UK release date for Dune: Part Three after a Leicester Square premiere, betting on autumn blockbuster traffic.
The BBC and MGM+ released first-look stills from Legacy of Spies as filming wrapped in the Czech Republic, with Matthew Macfadyen as George Smiley and Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas.
Studiocanal said Aardman's Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom crossed £1 million in UK box office after two weekends, holding third place behind Resident Evil and Practical Magic 2.
Working Title's Sense and Sensibility adaptation opened in 725 UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend, competing with Brad Pitt's Heart of the Beast survival drama.
Resident Evil's £4.2m UK-Ireland opening gives cinemas an anchor, but the second weekend, Practical Magic 2's third frame and a family Shaun release will decide whether late September holds.
The two-part Cursed Child closed sold out at the Palace Theatre on 20 September after ten years. From 9 October the same story returns as one 2-hour-55-minute evening priced from £25 — producer Sonia Friedman says the only alternative was charging prices that were "unaffordable and inaccessible".
Disney+ UK streams eight episodes of The Real Rooneys on 24 September, with two follow-up specials on 1 October, in a Hulu Original docuseries filmed across Cheshire, Barbados, and the Alps.
BBC One confirmed the Strictly Come Dancing launch-night couples and broadcast window after Culture Secretary comments on the licence-fee settlement revived arguments over Saturday peak-time spend versus news and iPlayer commitments.
BBC News will run a UN General Assembly special on BBC One and iPlayer with a hard handoff to the Ten O'Clock News after editors tightened guardrails following last year's overrun into the national bulletin.
Channel 5 ordered six more Barnwood Builders episodes and a Birmingham live-build special after BARB data showed the restoration format outperforming primetime entertainment slots in the West Midlands.
Channel 4’s scheduling team rebuilt the Great British Bake Off finale clock after Ofcom flagged repeated ad-break overruns in the semi-final, locking sponsor windows and a fixed 8:15 p.m. London end time before the live broadcast.
BBC iPlayer will cap concurrent UHD trial streams during midweek Champions League knockout windows so live sport bitrate does not crowd out standard-definition viewers on the public broadcaster's CDN.
ITV Studios told producers it will fund fewer fully UK-originated dramas in 2027, steering budgets toward streamer co-productions with shared international rights.