{"id":8971,"date":"2019-01-04T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/originals-deliver-uktv\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:11:34","slug":"originals-deliver-for-uktv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2019\/01\/04\/originals-deliver-for-uktv\/","title":{"rendered":"Originals Deliver for UKTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a year-end review, UKTV originals topped 2018 ratings on six channels in the bouquet\u2014Dave, W, Gold, Drama, Yesterday and Really\u2014and on UKTV Play.<\/p>\n<p>On Dave, four out of the top five shows were UKTV originals: <em>Taskmaster<\/em>, <em>Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier<\/em>, <em>Judge Romesh<\/em> and <em>Zapped<\/em>. <em>Taskmaster<\/em> was also the most popular show across the network with season seven becoming the most successful to date, with an average of 1.5 million viewers per episode.<\/p>\n<p>For W, <em>Emma Willis: Delivering Babies\u00a0<\/em>was the most-watched show on the channel in 2018. <em>Abandoned Engineering<\/em>, meanwhile, was the most popular on Yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Watsham, UKTV\u2019s director of commissioning, said: \u201cUKTV is increasing investment into originations yet again and in partnership with top talent, both in front of and behind the camera, it\u2019s enabling us to strengthen our catalog of popular and critically acclaimed shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year our aim is to grow original output even further with a series of network firsts. <em>Flack<\/em>, our first full-blown drama series, premieres on W in February. We\u2019ll shortly be in production for a number of crime dramas for Alibi, and Steve Backshall will bring high-octane specialist factual to Dave with the stunning <em>Expedition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build on our strong talent relationships too, <em>Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over<\/em> kicks off a revitalized slate for W, which still has slots to fill, and on Dave we\u2019re looking for female-fronted comedy entertainment shows to complement other high performing hits, led by <em>Taskmaster<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, UKTV Play had 140 million views across all platforms, a 36 percent increase on the previous year. In less than 12 months since mandatory registration was introduced, over 1.8 million users have signed up to the service, a third of whom are 16 to 34. UKTV originals were the most popular shows on UKTV Play, with episodes of <em>Taskmaster<\/em>, <em>Judge Romesh<\/em> and <em>Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier<\/em> in the top three spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a year-end review, UKTV originals topped 2018 ratings on six channels in the bouquet\u2014Dave, W, Gold, Drama, Yesterday and Really\u2014and on UKTV Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-uktv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Originals Deliver for UKTV - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2019\/01\/04\/originals-deliver-for-uktv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Originals Deliver for UKTV - 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