All Ben Frow articles – Page 30
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NewsShaps to overhaul ITV commissioning
ITV director of television Simon Shaps is planning a radical overhaul of ITV's commissioning system, creating three new genre 'ministries' and hiring around eight more commissioners.
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You're beautiful to me
Having inadvertently offended commissioning editors everywhere, Steven D Wright tries to atone - with shameless flattery.
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Five to bring back Swinging sketch show
Five's first homegrown comedy commission, Swinging, a sketch show about relationships and sex, has been recommissioned by the broadcaster.
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Five in Bermuda Triangle
The legendary Bermuda Triangle is the subject of Five's next week-long live programming event.
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Five swims with sharks
Five is to dive into the world of the great white shark with a week of live shows this autumn.
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Five hires Betty for birthright show
Five has given the green light to a 60-minute documentary from Betty TV called Middle Child Syndrome. Commissioned by controller of features and entertainment Ben Frow, the show will examine the psychology of birthright and explore the issues facing middle children, such as Tony Blair and ...
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Five helps viewers get dream job
Five is looking to help people to secure their dream job with a new series created by indies Maverick Television and Shine.
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Menzies finds full-time ents role at Five
Alex Menzies, the freelance commissioning executive behind Five reality show The Farm, has been handed a full-time role at the broadcaster.
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NewsBedell takes commissioning role
The BBC has drafted in independents executive Elaine Bedell to fill its long-vacant post of commissioning editor for features and factual entertainment.
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ITV1 show moves to Five
Producers on ITV1 show I Want That Househave been given their biggest home removal challenge yet with the show being lined up for a move to Five.
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Row loses Spun Gold Jordan show
Spun Gold, the indie set up by former Carlton executive Nick Bullen, has lost the contract to make a second series of ITV2's Jordan and Peter: Laid Barefollowing disagreements with the couple's agents.
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NewsBBC yet to fill key post as Frow spurns offer
The BBC still has a gap to fill in its factual commissioning team after Five's Ben Frow turned down the factual features job.
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BBC goes after Five's Frow
The BBC is making a play for Five's controller of features and entertainment, Ben Frow, to fill one of two top jobs at the corporation.
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Five to find out what Brits think of their bodies
Five is to launch a nationwide poll to uncover the attitudes of the British to their bodies for a series from Endemol.
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NewsFive orders first original comedy
Five has greenlit its first home-grown comedy commission with an adult sketch show about relationships and sex.
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Frow: life lesson shows are losing appeal
Lifestyle shows that attempt to tell people how to run their lives are losing their appeal, according to Ben Frow, the former Channel 4 commissioner behind hits including How Clean is Your House?
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NewsFive makeover duo to front The Farm
Five's reality series The Farmis to return for a second run in April hosted by property presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan.
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Design duo front more for Five.
Five's star signings Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are to present a raft of new shows for the broadcaster, all through Ricochet South, including one in which they try to create dream weddings on a budget, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Design duo front more for Five
Five's star signings Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are to present a raft of new shows for the broadcaster, all through Ricochet South, including one in which they try to create dream weddings on a budget.