All Commissioning articles – Page 361
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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.
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NewsBBC to adapt The Great Escape
The BBC is developing a TV series based on iconic Steve McQueen film The Great Escape.
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NewsChannel 5 calls in the RSPCA
Channel 5 has ordered a 10 x 30-minute documentary series from Middlechild Productions that follows a group of RSPCA workers who protect dogs from abusive owners and unscrupulous breeders.
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NewsThe Garden lands first C5 order
The Garden Productions has landed its debut commission from Channel 5, an ob-doc series following a family-run bus service in Yorkshire.
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NewsRory Kinnear plays Lord Lucan for ITV
ITV has confirmed that Jeff Pope is to pen a major biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished in the 1970s after his children’s nanny was murdered.
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NewsC4 orders nightclub toilet doc
Channel 4 is to open the door to the toilets of a Crawley nightclub for a one-off fixed-rig documentary.
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NewsNutopia behind C4 & PBS Algerian terrorist doc
Nutopia and the Bafta-winning director behind Our War are making a doc about the terrorist attack on Algeria’s In Amenas gas facility for Channel 4 and PBS in the US.
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NewsRaw opens Unexplained Files for Discovery
Discovery has ordered an X-Files-style documentary series from Raw TV to air around the world.