Hosted by David Mitchell (Peep Show), the comics will be presented with different survival challenges to create their new civilisation. Previous tasks have included felling trees, milking goats, and writing national anthems.
Living in tents and stripped of life’s luxuries, the comedians have got one week to prove themselves as survivalists.
Executive producer Leanne Klein has promised “ever more creative challenges” in this series.
The new factual series will take a deep dive into UK Parole Boards, focusing on individual prisoners and the unique circumstances which led them to this point.
Piper will talk to female prisoners who are trying to come to terms with what the future looks like for their children while trying to negotiate a prison term.
Over five episodes, Piper will explore the different ways women and their children are treated in the US judicial system and how they cope with the difficult prospect of having to give up their babies while they serve their time.
Writers and stars Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond of Ghosts and Horrible Histories fame took part in an RTS preview and Q&A for their latest comedy, We Are Not Alone. In the November session, they touched on the joy of creative freedom, resisting the temptation to cast themselves in plum roles, and shooting during the pandemic.
The call-out is exclusive to comedy and the scripts must feature female lead characters over the age of 45.
The chosen scripts will be developed by UKTV and Female Pilot Club for a live reading by top comedy talent in front of an industry audience.
Set at the iconic Moth Club in Hackney, the series will showcase cinematic sketches alongside live performances from the Moth Club’s stellar comedy collective including Jamie Demetriou (Stath Lets Flats), Natasia Demetriou (What We Do In The Shadows), Ellie White (Stath Lets Flats) and Cardinal Burns (Channel 4’s Cardinal Burns), Arnab Chanda (Pls Like), Ben Ashenden (The Bubble), and Alexander Owen (Dreaming Whilst Black).
The series will be hosted by BBC Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope and industry leader in non-surgical procedures Dr Esho.
The pair are on a mission to get the UK back to being au naturel, but are the nation ready to give up their cosmetic procedures?
Each episode will see Dr Esho help people who want to turn back the clock on years of social media inspired procedures, supported along the way by Hope.
The last year has seen many influencers and celebrities wishing to go more natural, dissolving their fillers and removing their implants.
The broadcaster will also make the channel available on its video on demand service UKTV Play, aiming to increase the footprint of W and its programme offering.
Upon its launch, viewers will be able to access many hit UKTV Originals, plus brand new upcoming series Alex Jones: Making Babies, Rochelle Humes: Interior Designer in the Making, Nurses on the Ward and Dating With My Mates, and new series of Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, MasterChef USA, Australia and Canada, and Inside the Ambulance.
‘It’s the gift that keeps on giving,” says UKTV CEO Marcus Arthur, a grin spreading across his face. The gift in question is Gold, the network’s flagship channel, whose audience share last year grew by 7%. Highlights included The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out, Gold’s most popular show of the year, watched by 829,000 people, with original drama Murder, They Hope in second place, watched by 687,000, and returning scripted series The Cockfields (490,000) in third.
The three-part series is set in the eponymous working-class market town in the East Midlands.
Morgana Robinson stars as the tired and truculent matriarch Maxine, who manages a local chip shop.
Maxine is trying to ride out her divorce and search for a new flame, but her dullard ex-husband Terry (Mathew Horne) is trying ever more desperately to win her back. Meanwhile her vulnerable son Leslie (Jai Hollis) has just come out as gay.
Creator and writer Nathan Foad (The Young Offenders) said: “Making Newark, Newark is my wildest dream come true.
