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NewsPaul Abbott calls time on Shameless
Channel 4 has called time on long-running comedy-drama Shameless – just six months after creator Paul Abbott declared it could run for 40 more years.
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NewsArrow Media engineering doc first for TCB Media
Mipcom: Arrow Media is making a Group M factual series for Channel 5 that will be the first title to be distributed by Paul Heaney’s new TCB Media Rights.
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NewsCatchphrase returns to ITV1
Mipcom: ITV1 has commissioned a series of the revamped quiz show Catchphrase.
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NewsYouTube reveals 60 channel partners
Mipcom: YouTube has revealed a raft of UK indies which have been selected to produce over 60 channels for the Google-owned site.
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NewsBBC1 to make full series of Christmas special Lapland
BBC1 is to turn Lapland, its Christmas comedy drama about a dysfunctional Northern family, into a multi-episode sitcom.
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NewsHistory orders South African special
History has ordered flagship documentary about the end of apartheid in South Africa which is to air internationally in 2013.
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NewsMore Chuggington heading to CBeebies
The fourth series of train adventure series Chuggington has been acquired by CBeebies.
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NewsJunior MasterChef to return with new judge
Junior MasterChef has been recommissioned for a second series with a new judge who found fame via a food blog in Ireland.
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NewsTwofour to explore tropical diseases in Discovery series
Discovery Networks Western Europe is to explore the world of tropical diseases, having gained exclusive access to three specialist institutions.
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NewsBBC2 to celebrate 30 years of Jools on TV Holland
Geoff Wonfor is to direct a BBC2 documentary celebrating Jools Holland’s 30-year television career.
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NewsIzzard traces his prehistory for BBC1 science doc
Comedian Eddie Izzard will use cutting edge technology to trace his family DNA back 200,000 years for BBC1.
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NewsCohen orders ‘grownup’ doctors doc for BBC1
BBC1 controller Danny Cohen has ordered a medical series that sources have indicated is the spiritual successor to BBC3 format Junior Doctors: Your Life InTheir Hands.
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NewsS4C strikes co-production for English/Welsh detective drama
S4C has kicked off a bid to establish Welsh-language drama internationally with a detective series that will be shot in both English and Welsh.
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NewsBBC1 drama to examine controversial murder law
Jimmy McGovern is to pen a BBC1 drama about a divisive legal tool used to combat gang violence.
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NewsExposure to highlight story of Banaz and Savile expose
Documentary Banaz: A Love Story will be reversioned for ITV1’s investigative journalism strand, Exposure, along with a film investigating allegations of child abuse by broadcaster Jimmy Savile.
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NewsHorrible Histories team to make world records show
The team behind Horrible Histories has created a new CBBC format that will aim to bring fresh insight into world record attempts.
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NewsC4 hunts Britain’s brainiest kid
Channel 4 has teamed up with IQ society Mensa to find the UK’s brainiest child in a 9pm competitive format for 2013.
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The Broadcast InterviewLiam Humphreys, C4
Channel 4’s head of factual entertainment has a clear mission in the post-Big Brother era: to create noise. But, he tells Balihar Khalsa, controversy will never be far behind.
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NewsWilliam Hurt to star in Challenger disaster drama for BBC2
William Hurt is to star as pioneering American scientist Richard Feynman in an ambitious BBC2 co-pro drama about the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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NewsCitizen Khan to return for second outing on BBC1
BBC1 has handed sitcom Citizen Khan a second series – a week before the first has finished broadcasting.