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NewsCBBC prepares comedy sketch show & factual format
CBBC has ordered six in-house series including comedy sketch show Class Dismissed and factual entertainment series The Dengineers.
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NewsITV recommissions Celebrity Squares
September Films’ revamp of entertainment classic Celebrity Squares has been recommissioned by ITV.
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NewsDon't Tell The Bride leaps to BBC1
Don’t Tell the Bride is set to leap to BBC1 after BBC3 revealed plans to scrap its factual entertainment formats.
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NewsC5 orders Grandmother Lover
Channel 5 is shining the spotlight on young men who love elderly women again with Barcroft Productions doc Grandmother Lover.
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NewsIf Not Us lands debut BBC order
Brighton-based production company If Not Us Films has landed its first BBC commission – a feature documentary about the history of British policewomen.
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NewsC5 orders cat clips show
Channel 5 has green-lit an internet-inspired show about cats from Mentorn Media.
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NewsSky 1 seeks Silver Surfers
Sky 1 is teaming a group of OAPs with YouTube friendly youths in a six-part series from Princess Productions.
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NewsBBC2 eyes Love-produced pottery competition
The Great British Bake Off producer Love Productions is looking to recreate its success in the kitchen with a pottery themed competition for BBC2.
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NewsBBC to adapt J.K Rowling's detective novels
The BBC is developing a TV series based on J.K Rowling’s detective novels The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm.
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NewsSean Bean to front doc on Waterloo for History
Actor Sean Bean is to present a two-hour documentary marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo for pay-TV broadcaster History.
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NewsSex, crime and self-harm feature in raft of C4 docs
Self-harm, child sex offenders and Europe’s largest brothel will be explored in six Channel 4 docs from the commissioner behind The Paedophile Hunter.
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NewsBlast! delivers Post Office doc to BBC2
The Tube producer Blast! Films is to turn its attention to the Post Office for its latest BBC2 ob-doc series.
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NewsGuy Martin short films race onto Channel 4
Guy Martin’s Passion For Life has become the first show from Channel 4’s online Shorts platform to make the leap onto linear television.
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NewsKudos lands Channel 4 comedy pilot
Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman will feature in a Channel 4 comedy pilot from Kudos Film & Television to be penned and directed by Bafta-nominated Will Sharpe.
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NewsGold digs out Bob Monkhouse joke books
UKTV has ordered a documentary series about the life of Bob Monkhouse for Gold.
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NewsToast of London to return for third outing
Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of Objective Productions’ comedy Toast of London.
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NewsEducating… heads to Cardiff
Channel 4’s Educating… strand is to leave England for the first time with a fourth series set in the Welsh capital city.
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NewsC5 revs up dashcam car show
Channel 5 has commissioned a driving clips show from Shine North featuring an array of ‘dashcam’ footage.
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NewsBBC1 lures Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is to make his first series for BBC1 - a three-part investigation into food waste.
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NewsTern secures 20 hours of BBC nations output
Tern Television has picked up over 20 hours of commissions from BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland, including a six-part documentary about Britain’s leading ski resort.