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LONDON: BBC One has lined up three new titles, Our Girl, Grey Mates and Inside KFC, for broadcast in 2014. Starring Lacey Turner, Our Girl is a 5×1-hour drama series from BBC Drama Production about a woman who becomes a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Hat Trick Productions' …

LONDON: Google has secured an agreement with HBO to make shows such as Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire available on its TV service, Google Play, in the U.K. The digital marketplace will stock the first three seasons of Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, the first six seasons of …

LONDON: A 90-minute biopic about the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy is being produced by the BBC's in-house comedy department in association with The Weinstein Company and Lookout Point. The feature, titled Stan and Ollie, will tell the story of the pair's U.K. tour in 1953, which wound up being …

LONDON: Channel 4 is dedicating an entire evening, on December 28, to The IT Crowd, including airing a specially commissioned doc, The IT Crowd Manual. The night will kick off with The IT Crowd 2013 special The Internet is Coming at 9 p.m. This will be followed up at 10 …

LONDON: BBC One has commissioned a 7×30-minute third season of Citizen Khan, a family sitcom created by and starring Adil Ray. Citizen Khan is about a self-appointed community leader who has a wife and two daughters. The show is filmed on location in Birmingham in front of a studio audience. …

LONDON: Sky Store, an on-demand movie rental service that was previously only available for Sky customers, has been opened up to everyone in the U.K. and Ireland. Recent film releases such as Man of Steel, The Hangover Part 3, Despicable Me 2 and The Lone Ranger are now available for …

LONDON: Angela Neillis has left her role as the head of acquisitions at Sky Vision to join FremantleMedia International (FMI) as director of non-scripted, replacing Niki Page, who is headed to Sky Vision to fill Neillis' post. Neillis will now be responsible for overseeing non-scripted content both from FremantleMedia's production …

PARIS/LONDON: Bolstering its position in the TV space, STUDIOCANAL has picked up a majority interest in British outfit RED, whose credits include the BAFTA-winning Last Tango in Halifax on BBC One. CANAL+ Group's studio already owns a majority stake in TANDEM Communications. The deal for RED advances its strategy to …

LONDON: FremantleMedia has set up a production operation in Oslo, Norway, tapping the Norwegian producer Petter Testmann-Koch to serve as managing director. Testmann-Koch will be working to set up the FremantleMedia Norge operations and build the production team. He is responsible for day-to-day management as well as for driving the …

LONDON: BBC Two has planned a follow-up to the BAFTA-winning comedy Twenty Twelve with the newly commissioned W1A. Hugh Bonneville plays Ian Fletcher, the ex head of the Olympic deliverance commission, who is now taking on the role of head of values at the BBC. The series is not envisioned …