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Studios in Scotland, Oxford and Birmingham are being developed.

The UK’s film and TV production boom shows no sign of abating - with inward investment revenue from international productions topping $4bn in 2018 - and there is now a gold rush to build the necessary studio space to house the wealth of projects in the territory.

International production companies, and in particular the Us majors alongside new SVoD players, are attracted to the UK’s tax reliefs for film and high-end TV, the established crew base, and world-class studio facilities. Shepperton and Pinewood are both expanding in order to meet...

Hot on the heels of a season finale that scored its largest audience ever, Line Of Duty producer World Productions has been acquired by ITV. The British broadcaster has taken a majority stake in the company which is also responsible for such programs as The Bletchley Circle, Dark Angel, In Plain Sight, Code Of A Killer and The Great Train Robbery. World CEO Roger Charteris will step down from his position with Creative Director Simon Heath assuming the Chief Executive…...

Owners explore studio potential after location shoots for Avengers: Age Of Ultron and Channel 4’s Humans.

Since hosting location shoots for Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age Of Ultron and ITV’s Code Of A Killer, owners of business and technical park Londoneast-uk in Dagenham are exploring the potential of a full-time film and TV studio at the site.

UK facilities management company Sog Group runs the 17-acre east London site, which is situated at the former manufacturing plant of pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

To date the site has hosted location shoots for Channel 4’s Humans, ITV’s Code Of A Killer and BBC crime-drama series New Blood as well as Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron.

According to a spokesperson for Sog, Lewis is in talks with Barking and Dagenham council, Film London and production companies about the potential for developing a full-time studio facility at the site, which is already hosting other commercial businesses.

“I can see...

Cavity Colors and Van Orton Design have released limited T-shirts and tank tops inspired by the aliens from John Carpenter's film, They Live. Also in this round-up: trailers for AMC's Humans and the Mad Max video game.

They Live Apparel: A special collaboration, the "Exposure" clothing features a split, futuristic take on the aliens from They Live:

"Exposure" T-shirt:

"The left side of the image represents the first time Rowdy Roddy Piper puts on the infamous sunglases, and he sees the subliminal imagery and aliens in grayscale. The color side represents when you finally see “Them” in full color and fully exposed to the world!"

Priced at $24, this limited maroon shirt is printed on 100% cotton fabric and is prone to sell out quickly. To learn more about the Cavity Colors' They Live T-shirt, visit:

http://cavitycolors.com/collections/t-shirts/products/exposure-t-shirt?variant=3071969025

"Exposure" Tank Top:

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"I helped create you." The sinister side of artificial intelligence is teased in the first trailer for AMC's sci-fi series, Humans, premiering Sunday, June 28th at 9:00pm Est:

Press Release (via TV By the Numbers) -- New York, NY – May 14, 2015 – "AMC today announced its new eight-part drama series “Humans” will premiere Sunday, June 28th at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Set in suburban London, “Humans” takes place in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a Synth – a highly developed, artificially intelligent servant eerily similar to its living counterpart. Penned by British writing partners Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (“Spooks,” Spooks: The Greater Good) and based on the award-winning Swedish sci-fi drama “Real Humans,” the series explores the emotional impact that comes as the lines between humans and machines become increasingly blurred. This bold new series is produced in conjunction with the...

Underneath Safe House's over-reliance on flashback and cheap tricks lies a beautifully directed, strongly performed drama...

This review contains spoilers.

We’ve reached the halfway point in this new ITV drama starring former Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, and the dramatic moments of the previous instalment hang heavy throughout Safe House episode three.

During part two’s denouement, we were introduced to new character Gemma Underwood. And then we were quickly unintroduced to her as she was murdered by the villain of the piece, Michael Collersdale (played very devilishly by Peter Ferdinando). Her link to the ongoing events with the Blackwood family (who have been stashed away in the lake district in the titular safe house along with Eccleston’s Robert after an attack by Collersdale) is revealed - she’s the sister of mother Ali (Holby City’s Nicola Stephenson).

As we discover over the course of the proceedings,...

Misdirection is a hand played throughout Safe House, which is elevated by a fascinating cast and strong direction...

This review contains spoilers.

From ITV comes yet another Monday night drama to add to their roster of impressive output in recent times.

Safe House, from writer Michael Crompton (who recently penned ITV’s excellent Code of A Killer), sees Christopher Eccleston play ex-policeman Robert who has left the force behind him with his wife Katy, played by Marsha Thomason, for a quiet life in the beauty and tranquility, not to mention solitude, of the Lake District.

We quickly discover Robert left the police due to the the execution of a witness he was protecting, an event which continues to haunt him. He’s visited by his former colleague and friend Dci Mark Maxwell, Paterson Joseph, with a proposition for the couple.

Keen to “rehabilitate” his friend Robert, Mark suggests that the...

ITV has set the cast for three-part drama Midwinter Of The Spirit which is to air on its ITV Encore pay service. Anna Maxwell-Martin (The Bletchley Circle) will play Merrily Watkins, a single mother who isn't your average country vicar — she's also one of the few female priests working as an exorcist. David Threlfall (Code Of A Killer) plays Rev Huw Owen, a deliverance ministry tutor and Merrily's mentor. Also featured are Downton Abbey and Happy Valley's Siobhan…...

Get an explosive first look at ITV's new drama The Great Fire on Digital Spy.

The red-hot new series is based on the true events of 1666's Great Fire of London.

On set, Andrew Buchan (who plays Thomas Farriner) and Daniel Mays (Samuel Pepys) talked DS through what to expect - beyond the pyrotechnics!

Game of Thrones veterans Charles Dance and Rose Leslie also appear in the series, alongside Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Dracula).

The Great Fire begins this Thursday (October 16) at 9pm on ITV.

Christopher Eccleston to lead new ITV thriller Safe House

John Simm, David Threlfall for ITV's Code Of A Killer...

Christopher Eccleston is to the lead the cast of ITV's new drama series Safe House.

The Leftovers actor will play a retired detective in the four-part series, also starring White Collar's Marsha Thomason.

Safe House follows Robert (Eccleston) and Katy (Thomason) - a married couple asked by close friend and police officer Mark (Paterson Joseph) to turn their remote guest house into a safe house.

The first 'guests' are a family in fear for their lives, after being violently attacked by a stranger who claims to know them.

18 months previous, Robert was shot trying to protect a star witness due to testify against her gangster husband. Protecting this new family causes the ex-cop to re-examine that terrifying night and soon he uncovers a web of lies.

Jason Merrells (Emmerdale), Nicola Stephenson (Holby City) and Peter Ferdinando (Doctor Who) will also star in the drama, set in the Lake District and inspired by true events.

John Simm and David Threlfall will lead the cast of ITV drama Code of a Killer.

The crime drama is based on the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in bringing a double murderer to justice.

Simm stars as Dr Alec Jeffreys who discovered the DNA fingerprinting technique while working at Leicester University in 1984.

Threlfall plays David Baker, who headed up a brutal double murder investigation in the mid 1980s with the help of Jeffreys' discovery.

James Strong (Broadchurch, United) will direct, while the screenplay is written by Michael Crompton with input from Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys and former Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker.

Filming for Code Of A Killer is due to begin at the end of September.