All Sky Atlantic articles – Page 14
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NewsSky Vision recoups 'eye-watering' Fortitude investment
Sky Vision has recouped its “eye-watering” investment in big-budget drama Fortitude after closing ten pre-sales for the Sky Atlantic series.
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NewsSky Atlantic returns to Penny Dreadful
Sky has recommissioned horror drama Penny Dreadful for a second series as it continues to strike increasing numbers of international co-production deals.
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NewsAnalysis: Turner Laing's departure
Sophie Turner Laing could be set for a move into the production sector when she leaves Sky later this year.
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RatingsMr Sloane debuts with 97,000
Sky Atlantic’s latest original commission Mr Sloane launched with fewer than 100,000 viewers on Friday, as Channel 4’s Gogglebox bowed out on a high.
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RatingsThrones takes ratings crown
It’s hard to believe, but that’s the football season finished. Except, that is, for the various league playoffs, the World Cup just three weeks away, and the friendly internationals in between.
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RatingsPenny Dreadful debuts with 354,000
Sky Atlantic’s gothic thriller Penny Dreadful sunk its teeth into an audience of 350,000 on Tuesday – making it the channel’s most popular show of the year after Game of Thrones.
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NewsBroadcast Digital Awards 2014 – shortlist revealed
The complete shortlist for the Broadcast Digital Awards 2014 has been revealed ahead of next month’s ceremony.
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Behind The ScenesMr Sloane, Sky Atlantic
Recreating a brown and beige British 1960s pub culture a world away from Mad Men
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RatingsHunters close in on rivals
With the exception of discovering one’s ex marching up the beach (which, under normal circumstances, you’d probably run away from), everything else this week has been about the pursuit: of power and thrones; of quirky treasures; and of sporting glory.
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RatingsSlim pickings for Mad Men
It’s about slightly awkward headwear, faraway places, high politics, a whiff of debauchery, existential despair and massive swords swishing metaphorically, and sometimes literally, about the place.
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RatingsMad Men fails to sell Sky Atlantic
Mad Men returned for a seventh series on Wednesday with a meagre audience of 28,500 - as Channel 4’s How to Get a Council House was back with record ratings.
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RatingsThrones roars ahead for Sky
The official motto of the (fictional) Westeros grand family House Lannister of Casterly Rock is, apparently, ‘hear me roar’.
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NewsBBC3’s Zai Bennett to lead Sky Atlantic
Zai Bennett will become director of Sky Atlantic just weeks after it was announced that BBC3 is to move online next year.
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VideoVIDEO: storyboarding Game of Thrones
Conceptual artist William Simpson discusses designing the Sky Atlantic show’s weapons and planning its most famous scenes.
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NewsSky Atlantic to air Gomorrah
Sky Atlantic has acquired its first foreign-language series, the hotly anticipated Italian crime-drama Gomorrah from distributors Arrow Films and Beta Film.
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NewsSky simulcasts Game of Thrones debut
Sky has struck a deal with HBO allowing it to air Game of Thrones at the same time as it launches on the US cable network.
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NewsFox renews Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Following
E4’s comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Sky Atlantic crime thriller The Following have been recommissioned in the US as part of Fox’s forthcoming slate.
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CommentClosing the transatlantic gap
Outside of Netflix, a ‘wait and see’ approach still rules for buying US shows, says Tim Wescott
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RatingsSlow start for Bond drama
As a nipper, one of my favourite jokes was to go around saying my name was Bond – Brooke Bond; ‘like the tea’, I would always add anxiously, as the silence yawned on.
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Behind The ScenesFleming, Sky Atlantic
Douglas Rae and director Mat Whitecross share the story of giving life to the James Bond creator