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Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionAnd this, according to boffins, is a crucial step to ensure hydrogen gas meters on the market deliver accurate measurements for customer billing and taxation purposes.Head of clean fuels at the firm, Marc MacDonald, said the move can help oversee the move from natural gas to hydrogen in domestic heating.He added: “Accurate measurement is an essential element to enable the

Fargo creator Noah Hawley says he’ll definitely “get to” writing a fifth season of the show.The show’s season four finale aired last November on FX, and is coming to UK audiences on Channel 4 this spring.Little had been said about the prospect of a fifth season of the show, but Hawley has said that the prospect of another edition is very much alive.Speaking during an event at the virtual SXSW festival, Hawley said of season five (via Variety): “It will happen, but I’m not in a place where I’m

Sky Studios has launched wholly-owned production outfit Transistor Films with the team behind Crime+Investigation UK and Netflix series I Am A Killer.

Phoebe Dynevor, recently seen as Daphne Bridgerton in Netflix's hit period drama series Bridgerton, is to star alongside Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game) in the Sky original film The Colour Room. Directed by Claire McCarthy (Ophelia) from a script by Claire Peate, the film — a co-production from Sky, Caspian Films and Creative England — will tell the story of famed British ceramic artist Clarice Cliff, to be played by Dynevor.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has renewed its darkly comic British crime series Queens Of Mystery for a second season, with production already underway in Kent, south-east England.

France Channels, a Britbox-style streaming service dedicated to French content, will launch in the U.S. in Q2, 2021.

Tim Burgess has launched his own new ‘Listening Party’ earphones to help raise money for UK grassroots music venues.Today, The Charlatans frontman has teamed up with Flare Audio to release his own headphones, with £5 from every pair sold donated to the Music Venue Trust.Launched back in March as the UK went into coronavirus-enforced lockdown, the regular listen-and-tweet-along online event of #TimsTwitterListeningParty sees bands and artists tweeting through a playback of one of their classic

British crime drama series Bloodlands, which stars James Nesbitt and comes from Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio, has been renewed for a second season by the BBC.

The repercussions from Wednesday’s edition of  “The Talk” continue to be felt, with CBS announcing plans to undertake an “internal review” in the wake of the heated discussion that took place between co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne about racism.

The repercussions from Wednesday’s edition of  “The Talk” continue to be felt, with CBS announcing plans to undertake an “internal review” in the wake of the heated discussion that took place between co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne about racism.

Lucy Hale is set as a lead in Ragdoll, a crime drama series based on the novel by Daniel Cole, for AMC and Alibi, Deadline has confirmed. The series hails from Sid Gentle Films, the British production company behind Killing Eve.

ITV, the British broadcaster behind hits including Love Island and The Voice UK, suffered a £156 million ($215M) blow to its earnings during the height of the coronavirus crisis, as the pandemic hit the ad market and shut down production.

BritBox U.K., the streaming service joint venture of ITV and the BBC, said on Monday that it would launch on Amazon Prime Video Channels this spring. The streamer will become available to Prime members in Britain with an add-on subscription.

Paul Marquess and Susanne Farrell, who worked together on long-running British cop drama The Bill, have teamed up on a new British crime drama for the BBC and BritBox North America.