{"id":21799,"date":"2024-08-02T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T14:22:33","slug":"uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"UKTV Commissions More Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sauce, part of Zinc Media Group, has been commissioned by UKTV to produce another two seasons of <em>Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal<\/em>, formerly titled <em>Special Ops: Crime Squad UK<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth and sixth seasons will continue to follow the investigative work of specialist units in U.K. police forces as they take on cyber heists, romance fraud, human trafficking, drug rings and murder. The new seasons will consist of four 60-minute episodes each.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons five and six will air on U&amp;Dave and stream on U in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted by the unparalleled ongoing success of<em> Special Ops<\/em>, a series that evolves and strengthens with every run and part of our burgeoning slate of hard-hitting and intelligent true crime content,\u201d said Tom Edwards, creative director of Red Sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Hanson, senior commissioning editor for factual and factual entertainment at UKTV, added, \u201c<em>Special Ops<\/em> continues to spotlight some of the most complex and challenging criminal investigations faced by Britain\u2019s police forces. I\u2019m delighted that Red Sauce are bringing two further seasons of these compelling real-life stories to U and U&amp;Dave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sauce, part of Zinc Media Group, has been commissioned by UKTV to produce another two seasons of Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal, formerly titled Special Ops: Crime Squad UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[8077,5792,8867,9827,9828,9744,9743,309,2533],"class_list":["post-21799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-kirsty-hanson","tag-red-sauce","tag-special-ops-crime-squad-uk","tag-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal","tag-tom-edwards","tag-u","tag-udave","tag-uktv","tag-zinc-media-group","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UKTV Commissions More Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal - TVREAL<\/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\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UKTV Commissions More Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Red Sauce, part of Zinc Media Group, has been commissioned by UKTV to produce another two seasons of Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal, formerly titled Special Ops: Crime Squad UK.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-02T14:22:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-02T14:22:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/UKTV-SpecialOpsToCatchaCriminal-0824.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/\",\"name\":\"UKTV Commissions More Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-02T14:22:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-02T14:22:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/uktv-commissions-more-special-ops-to-catch-a-criminal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UKTV Commissions More Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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