Sky Living continues to grow its exciting US drama offering as it acquires NBCUniversal International Distribution’s police thriller Shades of Blue, starring Jennifer Lopez, and the fourth installment of ABC’s Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated US musical drama series Nashville, These US dramas bring Sky Living’s customers even more of the addictive storylines and strong, confident characters they love to watch.
Shades of Blue is a thrilling crime drama fresh from the US starring the talented multi-hyphenate Jennifer Lopez as Harlee Santos. Harlee is a charismatic single mother and resourceful detective at the heart of a close-knit crew of Brooklyn detectives, led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, played by Emmy® Award-winning Ray Liotta, who often leads the team to step outside the limitations of the law in order to effectively protect their precinct and their own.
Series four of critically acclaimed Nashville will headline for the first time on Sky Living, with its well-loved country music stars and their southern drama top of the bill. Created by Callie Khouri, Nashville stars Connie Britton (American Crime Story) as legendary country music superstar Rayna James, and Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) as thriving younger star Juliette Barnes.
The acquisition of Nashville and Shades of Blue further showcases to customers that Sky Living is the number one place to get lost in great drama. Sky Living is already home to an enviable list of some of the most-loved US network hits including Scandal, Elementary, The Blacklist, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds and Bones and most recently the UK premiere of Blindspot. Blindspot consolidated from 384K to 1.192m, making it the best launch of a brand new US drama on Sky Living ever. Also coming soon to Sky Living is the new show from Shonda Rhimes, The Catch.
Adam MacDonald, Director of Sky 1 and Sky Living, said: “These two brilliant shows coming to Sky Living just strengthens our reputation for fantastic US drama, so I couldn’t be happier to have Shades of Blue and Nashville coming to the channel. They have everything that a Sky Living drama should have and more: strong characters, engrossing storylines and the talk-ability our customers love.”
Shades of Blue was executive produced by Jack Orman, creator/writer Adi Hasak, Barry Levinson (Pilot), Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass. Barry Levinson directed episodes 1 and 2. Shades of Blue is a production of Universal Television, Nuyorican Productions, EGTV, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Jack Orman Productions. It is distributed worldwide by NBCUniversal.
Nashville is executive produced by Callie Khouri, Steve Buchanan and Dee Johnson. It is produced by ABC Studios in association with Lionsgate Television, distributed worldwide by ABC Domestic Television. Sky Customers will be able to catch up on previous seasons of ground-breaking US musical drama Nashville on Sky Box Sets and NOW TV ahead of the 4th instalment landing on Sky Living this summer.
