BBC Worldwide in content deal with New Zealand broadcasters

BBC Worldwide has renewed a deal with Prime Television that will see the upcoming series of award-winning Top Gear remain with the channel.

Top Gear is consistently Prime‘s highest-rating programme, and has aired on the network since 2004.

Meanwhile, BBC Worldwide has also concluded a deal with TVNZ for new and returning drama, factual, and factual entertainment programming.

New dramas included in the package include Whitechapel, The Children and Sleep with Me.

Returning series include the third series of time-travel drama Primeval, the fifth series of New Tricks, Hotel Babylon, Mistresses and Silent Witness.