UK TV buys American
The latest news from the round of LA Screenings highlights where some of this season’s new American sf shows will find their UK home (for those of you without the broadband to bittorrent them…)
ITV has bought Bionic Woman and Bryan Fuller’s Pushing Daisies (and extended the ITV2 run of Supernatural by two more seasons).
Channel 4 has bought Reaper, a comedy about a “21 year old slacker” who is recruited as Satan’s bounty hunter. This is most interesting because Kevin Smith directed the pilot.
Sky One has bought Journeyman.
Virgin Media TV (probably Bravo and eventually Ftn [probably new freeview channel Virgin 1 - which is going heavy on the Star Trek too] has bought The Sarah Connor Chronicles (for £400,000 per episode, which may well be the station’s entire budget).