LIVING Named New British Home for Medium

LONDON: LIVING has secured the exclusive U.K. broadcast rights to seasons five and six of Medium from CBS Studios International.

The fifth and sixth season of the U.S. paranormal drama will premiere exclusively on LIVING, with a second run on Virgin1. Starting in August, seasons one through four of Medium will air on LIVING for the first time ever. Seasons five and six will follow in September. The show previously aired on NBC in the U.S., and was picked up by CBS for the fall.

Medium focuses on Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette), who is a research medium for the district attorney’s office in Phoenix, Arizona. The series averaged 8.8 million viewers per episode last season in the U.S.

Virgin Media Television’s head of acquisitions, Amy Barham, said: “Our viewers love paranormal drama and we love Medium so are proud to become the U.K. home of the show and have it join Ghost Whisperer and Supernatural to bolster our strategy to have the best paranormal drama programming in peak.”