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NewsWall to Wall secures more WDYTYA & Long Lost Family
Wall To Wall has won new series commissions for its BBC and ITV genealogy formats Who Do you Think You Are and Long Lost Family.
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NewsBBC World News orders Escape from Boardroom
The bosses of Spyker Cars and Oxfam are among those preparing to embed themselves in the frontlines of their companies for a new Twofour series for BBC World News.
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NewsRaw to reveal student life for C4
Raw TV will use its Digital Rig social media technology to help produce a Channel 4 series about what life is really like for first year university students.
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NewsITV to air Ricky Hatton doc
ITV is to air a documentary about boxer Ricky Hatton from the indie behind Queens Park Rangers football doc The Four Year Plan.
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NewsChris Terrill returns for C5 exploration series
Channel 5 has commissioned a four-part series from Chris Terrill’s Uppercut Films which will follow the adventurer as he travels to dangerous environments from the Arctic to the Sahara.
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NewsThe Wombles set for TV return
The Wombles are set for a return to TV after creator Mike Batt unveiled plans to produce two new 26-part television series.
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NewsOttolenghi to front second Keo series for More 4
Chef Yotam Ottolenghi is to front his second series for More 4, this time exploring the food of the Mediterranean islands.
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NewsC4 investigates Who’s Getting Rich?
Channel 4 has ordered a short season of shows from Boomerang and Firecracker Films focussing on businesses which are bucking the recession.
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NewsC5 gives birth to IWC's Animal Maternity
Channel 5 has commissioned a six-part series about the world of animal births from IWC Media.
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NewsDigby Jones to front BBC2 manufacturing series
BBC2 has commissioned a three-part series that will see Lord Digby Jones attempt to help three British manufacturers get in shape for the future.
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NewsBBC2 moves into Tudor Abbey Farm
Lion TV is turning the clock back to the year 1500 for the fourth installment in its hugely successful Farm franchise for BBC2.
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NewsBBC orders social experiment and Paramedics series
A social experiment that will relocate 100 unemployed youngsters to an ageing Dorset town and a series from the team behind Junior Doctors are the latest commissions for BBC Entertainment North.
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NewsAnimal Clinic set for C5 return
Channel 5 is bringing back Animal Clinic and has replaced host Rolf Harris with Countryfile star Ben Fogle.
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NewsNetflix moves into local commissioning
Netflix is moving to produce lower-cost local programming internationally for the first time and has commissioned its first major project outside of the US.
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NewsBBC cooks up Nutopia science series
BBC has ordered How We Got To Now, a six-part science series from Nutopia.
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NewsC4 orders health series and latest Kirstie show
Channel 4’s features division has continued its string of recent commissions by ordering a health series from Outline Productions and a Kirstie Allsopp show from Raise The Roof Productions.
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NewsITV2 dives into Tom Daley series
Tom Daley continues to make waves in TV after ITV2 ordered a six-part series from Twofour and GroupM Entertainment.
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NewsE! developing rich kids blog show with ITVS
US cable network E! is developing a reality series about a group of rich kids from Beverly Hills, produced by ITV Studios America.
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NewsBBC orders factual format from iCreate
The BBC has commissioned factual format Make My Dream, the first project to come out of its fledgling staff crowdsourcing platform iCreate.
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NewsThird time lucky for The Syndicate
Kay Mellor’s Rollem Productions has been recommissioned to make a third series of The Syndicate, which will return to BBC1 in 2015.