All Commissioning articles – Page 405
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NewsTurner across Ballooniverse
Turner Broadcasting has ordered a live-action pre-school series featuring a balloon artist and a magician from 2 Sides TV for Cartoonito.
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NewsBeeny helps homeowners on C4
Sarah Beeny will use her renovation skills convince people that they don’t need to move house to find their dream home, in a Red House TV series for Channel 4.
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NewsProspect Cymru explores rise in metal theft for BBC1
BBC1 is to explore the surge in metal theft around the UK in a 10.35pm doc made by DCD-owned Prospect Cymru.
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NewsSky Arts in star-led Playhouse push
Sky Arts is beefing up its Playhouse comedy and drama strand with 12 plays, including Sir Tom Jones in his first acting role and Emma Thompson playing the Queen.
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NewsParkinson returns to TV for Sky Arts
Sir Michael Parkinson is to host a six part series for Sky Arts as the talk show veteran returns with his first show in more than five years.
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NewsSo Wrong It's Right returns to R4
Radio 4 comedy panel show So Wrong It’s Right will return in May for a third series in the 6.30pm slot.
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NewsFoyle’s War to return to ITV1
ITV1 is to revisit Foyle’s War after the rights to detective series were rescued from defunct indie Greenlit.
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NewsFrostrup series leads Sky Arts into new era
Mariella Frostrup is to front a Sky Arts series in which the likes of Damien Hirst, Sir Paul Smith and Manolo Blahnik discuss the world’s most desirable objects before donating their own prized possessions for a charity auction.
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NewsC5 takes global road trip for Gadget Show revamp
Channel 5’s The Gadget Show is set for its biggest shake-up after 16 series, swapping its studio for an international road trip format and dropping three presenters.
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NewsC5 goes Inside the Titanic with Dangerous Films
Channel 5 has picked up the UK rights to Inside the Titanic, a big-budget factual drama from producer Dangerous Films.
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NewsEducating Essex shifts location for return to C4
Fixed-rig documentary series Educating Essex is set to be recommissioned by Channel 4 – but with the cameras moving to a new school in a different part of the country.
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NewsStephenson examines effects of fame for More 4
Psychologist Pamela Stephenson will ask Oscar winner Tatum O’Neal, former Spice Girl Mel C and actor John Hurt about the psychological impact of being famous, in a 60-minute documentary for More 4.
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NewsC4 orders Springer’s Baggage pilot in deal with Chocolate
Channel 4 is gearing up to pilot a UK version of Game Show Network’s Jerry Springer-fronted dating show Baggage.
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NewsBBC3 rejigs QT spin-off
BBC3 series Young Voters’ Question Time is being overhauled, rebranded and expanded into a regular monthly format, with Formula One presenter Jake Humphrey taking on hosting duties.
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NewsITV1 plans push on weekend mornings
ITV1 is targeting a major push on original content for weekend mornings and is lining up a rival to BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen plus a fresh stab at Let’s Do Lunch With Gino & Mel.
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NewsSky 1 picks up C4 pilot Chickens
Sky 1 has plucked Simon Bird, Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas’ comedy Chickens from Channel 4 in a deal that will see Big Talk Productions produce its first show for the channel.
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NewsBBC1 orders Postcode Lottery series
BBC Daytime has commissioned a new investigative series looking at how where we live can affect our life.
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NewsLOTR's Monaghan going wild for Channel 5
Dominic Monaghan, best known for roles in Lord of the Rings and Lost, to front a series for Channel 5 in which he will hunt for the world’s most dangerous and elusive insects.
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NewsRussell Tovey to star in ITV comedy pilot
ITV1 has ordered a comedy pilot based in a job centre from the makers of Rev.
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NewsSky Atlantic books Richard E Grant hotel series
Richard E Grant is to front a “luxurious” travel series for Sky Atlantic that marks the first commission for Clive Tulloh’s new indie.