Sky One announces Alan Carr as the host of brand new panel show, ‘There’s Something About Movies’
From the makers of Sky One’s BAFTA winning ‘A League of Their Own’ comes a brand new celebrity panel show, ‘There’s Something About Movies’, launching on Thursday 2 May 2019. The Sky original production, produced by CPL Productions and Motion Content Group, will be anchored by funny man Alan Carr as he invites some of the UK’s favourite actors and comics to test their film trivia and blockbuster knowledge on-screen.
Filmed in front of a live studio audience, ‘There’s Something About Movies’ will be Alan’s first hosting gig with the Sky family. The show promises laughs in abundance with guest stars each week who will battle it out to prove they know the most about the industry that made them, all with a dose of chat, humour and some gentle ridicule from Alan himself.
Phil
Edgar-Jones, Head of Entertainment at Sky, says: “We
are somewhere over the rainbow with excitement to have Alan Carr taking a leading
role in There’s Something About Movies. It feels like a show only Sky could
make and we aim to do for films what A League of their Own has done for
sport... make it funny!”
Alan Carr says: “Super excited to be hosting ‘There’s
Something About Movies’ - with the unique mix of famous comedy faces and actual
movie stars on one panel show together it’s going to be must see TV. Grab your
popcorn as we test the stars on their cinema knowledge, get all the Hollywood
gossip behind the scenes and with some acting master classes I see if I’ve got
what it takes to make it in tinsel town (spoiler alert - I haven’t). It’s going
to be so much fun”
There’s Something About Movies is
the latest in a raft of recent commissions as Sky continues its investment in
original content with the best of British talent, such as Helen Mirren
(Catherine the Great), Idris Elba (In the Long Run 2), Tim Roth (Tin Star 2)
and Romesh Ranganathan (A League of their Own, The Reluctant Landlord 2).
It also follows a record 16 BAFTA
nominations for Sky this year, including a nomination for the CPL produced A
League of Their Own for Comedy Entertainment programme.
‘There’s Something
About Movies’ is a Sky original production produced by BAFTA-winning CPL Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, and producers of hit US/UK panel show
‘Safeword’,
Motion Content Group. The six part series (6 x 60’) will go into
production imminently and is due to air 2 May 2019 on Sky One and streaming
service NOW TV.
For
more information please contact:
calum.mcgarry@premiercomms.com/ callum.clark@premiercomms.com
About Sky
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We have 31,000 colleagues and together we want to connect our customers to more of what they love, including our award-winning original productions, like Patrick Melrose and Save Me, and great shows from our partners including HBO, Showtime and Warner Bros. And our ever-improving technology makes it even easier for customers to watch more of the shows they love with personalised recommendations and voice control and, our online streaming service, NOW TV, brings all the enjoyment of Sky with the flexibility of a contract free service.
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About
NOW TV:
NOW
TV is a pick and mix TV streaming service that lets you choose from a range of
passes contract free.
Available
anytime, anywhere in the UK, you can watch through a NOW TV Box or NOW TV Smart
Stick, or on the web. The NOW TV app is also available on over 60 devices.
Whether
you’re into big dramas, blockbuster movies, live sports or even just some extra
TV for the kids, NOW TV offers four passes which include the latest and best TV
and movies: Entertainment, Sky Cinema, Kids and Sky Sports.
This
includes Sky Atlantic, over 300 Box Sets on demand, all 10 Sky Sports channels
and over 1,000 movies – all available with no contract.
For
more information:
•
Visit nowtv.com
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CPL
Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, and Edinburgh TV Festival’s
Production Company of the year is one of the most successful independent TV and
radio production companies in the UK. An impressive roster of hit shows
includes Sky One’s BAFTA-winning A League Of Their Own, the second series of
Sky One comedy The Reluctant Landlord written by and starring Romesh
Ranganathan, Channel 4’s multi-award winning Old People’s Home for 4 Year
Olds, and the return of Harry Hill to our screens in NIT Television’s Alien Fun
Capsule for ITV1.
Additional
programmes include, Sky One’s A League of Their Own US and European Road Trips,
Rob and Romesh Vs, ITV’s popular drama Brief Encounters, Channel 4’s Married At
First Sight and the upcoming The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes.
About Motion Content
Group:
Motion Content Group is a global content investment
and rights management company. It invests and partners with the world’s leading
talent, producers and distributors to fund, develop, produce and distribute
premium content. Motion supports editorially and commercially vibrant networks
and platforms by helping meet the ever-increasing demand for premium content,
for the benefit of advertisers and its content partners.
Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, Motion
currently operates in 26 countries worldwide and has a broad range of
award-winning programming distributed globally.
Motion’s content investments include global hit and
record-breaking format Love Island (ITV Studios/Motion) produced in 11
countries with 2019 seeing the series launch on CBS in the US; Channel 4’s
ground-breaking social media reality series The Circle (Studio
Lambert/Motion) with international versions in production for Netflix; Sky
originals family game show Wild Things with local productions including Russia,
China and Argentina, and currently in production for RTL2 in Germany; long
running series Ben Fogle: New Lives in
the Wild (Renegade/Motion) and Indian talk show No. 1 Yaari, now produced
in five languages. Motion has also licensed global hit formats including
MasterChef Singapore (Endemol Shine International) and Thailand’s Got Talent
(Fremantle). Motion Content Group is part of GroupM, the world’s leading
full-service media investment management operation, a WPP company.
For more information
follow us at: twitter.com/motion_content
