Channel 4, All 4 lead Edinburgh TV Awards winners

Channel 4 was the big winner at this year’s Edinburgh TV Awards, with We Are Lady Parts, It’s a Sin and All 4 all taking home prizes.

BBC One won the prestigious Channel 4 of the Year award, but Channel … Read More

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche makes Sky Arts debut

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche is available through Sky TV until 5th April 2021.

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche is playing on Sky Arts this weekend, following its premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival.

The documentary sees Celeste … Read More

Sky Arts goes free to air

Sky Arts has officially gone free to air, bringing its mix of arts and culture programming to the nation at no cost.

“We believe that everyone should have access to the arts and that the more people you encourage to … Read More

No Masks: Sky Arts and Theatre Royal Stratford East team up for new drama

This September sees the launch of Sky Arts as a free-to-air channel in the UK, and it’s kicking off with a collaboration with Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Russell Tovey (Years and Years) will star in No Masks, a new work … Read More

From Beyonce to Billie Eilish: Sky Arts launches Front Room Festival

With music festivals postponed this summer, broadcasters, artists and organisers have been finding a range of ways to fill that music-shaped hole in people’s summer. The Royal Albert Hall has been streaming new and old concerts for free on YouTube, … Read More

Sky Arts streams free shows online including Portrait Artist Live

Sky Arts is taking some of its programming online for free during the coronavirus lockdown – including a weekly series of live Portrait Artist sessions.

The weekly format, based on Portrait Artist of the Year, sees celebrity sitters pose live … Read More

Joan RIvers, Orson Welles and Barbra Streisand to feature in Urban Myths Season 4

Sky’s Urban Myths will return for a fourth season, featuring such famous names as Joan Rivers, Orson Welles and Barbra Streisand.

The International Emmy-nominated series fictionalises some of the most peculiar stories to have ever leaked out of Hollywood, the … Read More

Princess Margaret and Diana and Donald Trump feature in Urban Myths Season 3

Urban Myths returns to Sky Arts this April, and it’ll be shining a light on yet more unlikely and unusual tall tales from the past – including everyone from Princess Margaret and Diana to Donald Trump.

Season 3 of Emmy-nominated … Read More

Sky axes controversial Michael Jackson episode from Urban Myths series

Sky has decided to axe a controversial Michael Jackson episode from its upcoming Urban Myths series.

The programme, which begins on Sky Arts later this month, looks at “remarkable stories from well-known historical, artistic and cultural figures”, which may or … Read More

Trailer: Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories lands on Sky Arts this week

Neil Gaiman fans are in for a treat this week, as a new seres based on the author’s short stories lands on UK TV.

Likely Stories is a four-part anthology of some of Gaiman’s short works, directed by Iain Forsyth … Read More