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U orders third season of Dream Car Fixers

UKTV has recommissioned the classic car series, Dream Car Fixers (6×60’), for a third season for its factual channel U&Yesterday and free streaming service, U.  The series is produced by Wiser Films. The programme follows mechanic and classic car enthusiast Sheldon Nichols as he tries to find his clients’ dream cars within their tight budgets. Be-it a […]

October 15, 2025

UKTV commissions new season of Canal Boat Diaries

UKTV has commissioned a new season of Canal Boat Diaries (10×60′) for its free streaming service U and leading factual channel U&Yesterday, under licence from the BBC. In Canal Boat Diaries s7, waterways explorer Robbie Cumming will begin a brand-new journey across the UK from Wales to West Yorkshire. This will be a personal journey showing […]

August 4, 2025

4 new series of Bumper Bangers & Cash for U and U&Yesterday

UKTV has recommissioned four more series of the factual entertainment series, Bangers & Cash (52×60’) for its factual channel U&Yesterday and free streaming service, U. Spin-off sister show, Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics has also been re-ordered for four more seasons (20×60’). The 72-episode order surpasses all previous commissions or recommissions by UKTV in terms […]

July 31, 2025

UKTV commissions Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop

UKTV has announced the commission of new series, Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop (5 x60’), produced by Beagle Media, for factual channel U&Yesterday and free streaming service U. Dom Chinea and his wife Maria (plus their dog Wendy) are moving to Cornwall, having bought an old, stone farmhouse, a two-acre field, including a large agricultural barn […]

July 2, 2025

Robson Green fronts World’s Most Amazing Walks for U&Yesterday

UKTV and BBC Select today announce the commission of new series, World’s Most Amazing Walks with Robson Green (8 x60’), for leading factual channel U&Yesterday and free streaming service, U, produced by BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions. The new eight-part series will see the much-loved presenter and actor and keen rambler Robson Green embark on a […]

April 7, 2025

UKTV makes double Prospero commission

UKTV has commissioned two new series from Prospero Productions. Brit Cops Down Under (8×60′) for U&W and The Legend of Outback Gold (w/t) (6×60′) for U&Yesterday will also both be available on its free streaming service, U. Brit Cops Down Under is a documentary following a group of seven UK police officers as they make […]

December 18, 2024

UKTV crowns the Classic Car Kings in new restoration series for U&Yesterday

UKTV has commissioned the new series, Classic Car Kings (6×60’), for factual channel U&Yesterday and free streaming service, U. The six-part series is produced by Chatterbox Media and will air in 2025. The team at Irv’s Resto Shop in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, are world renowned for their work rescuing classic cars that appear to be beyond […]

September 19, 2024

UKTV commissions more Canal Boat Diaries for U&YESTERDAY

UKTV has commissioned another new season of Canal Boat Diaries (10×60′) for factual channel U&YESTERDAY and free streaming service, U, having licensed the format rights from the BBC. The sixth season of Canal Boat Diaries will take viewers through some of the most beautiful countryside and canalscapes the south of England has to offer. Winding […]

August 28, 2024

UKTV’s U masterbrand launching July 16

UKTV has announced that U – its new masterbrand – will go live on July 16th, uniting UKTV’s family of free-to-air channels which will become U&Dave, U&Drama, U&Yesterday and U&W. Its free streaming service will transition from UKTV Play to U. Penny Brough, Chief Marketing Officer at UKTV, commented: “The launch of U on July 16th is […]

June 6, 2024

Engineering series from Air TV commissioned by UKTV

UKTV has commissioned Masters of Reinvention for its  factual channel Yesterday and free streaming service UKTV Play, to be produced by Air TV. In the new six part series, mechanical engineer and broadcaster, Dr Shini Somara (Tomorrow’s Food) will turn to back copies of Practical Mechanics magazine – once the bible of British inventors – […]

May 20, 2024