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FeaturesHannah Demidowicz, Nat Geo
Head of commissioning and acquisitions, National Geographic Channels Europe.
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NewsITV1 lines up Dwain Chambers doc
ITV1’s Tonight strand has secured exclusive access to shamed British sprinter Dwain Chambers ahead of a legal ruling that will dictate whether he can compete in the London Olympics.
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NewsYesterday sends vets to Falklands
UKTV history channel Yesterday has co-produced a documentary following two British service men as they visit the Falklands 30 years after the conflict started.
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NewsC5 spins-off Cowboy Traders
Channel 5 has ordered Ricochet to make Cowboy Traders, a series exposing dishonest tradesmen including bridal-shop owners and car dealers.
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NewsT4 Sundays set to move to E4
Youth programming strand T4 will move to digital channel E4 on Sundays for the first time to make room for the new Sunday Brunch magazine show.
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NewsCBeebies develops kids’ number skills
CBeebies has ordered a multiplatform series to help children learn numeracy, as part of its new Love To Learn programming strand.
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NewsC4 to air Secret Policeman's Ball
Amnesty International’s annual Secret Policeman’s Ball will be shown on Channel 4 days after the event takes place in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on 4 March.
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Rastamouse back for second series
A second series of pre-school stop-motion series Rastamouse has entered production following a recommisison from CBeebies.
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NewsPratchett off to Borneo for BBC2
Fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett is to travel to Borneo and track down an orangutan king as he contemplates the meaning of mankind’s existence for a new BBC2 documentary.
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NewsC4 to rework SFTW as Sunday Brunch
Channel 4 has effectively picked up axed BBC2 magazine show Something for the Weekend, after commissioning Princess Productions to make a Sunday morning series.
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NewsComedy Blaps delivers first C4 TX pilot
The Rubberbandits is the first Comedy Blap to earn a broadcast pilot for Channel 4 following a successful online debut.
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NewsC4 boosts fact ent commissioning with two hires
Channel 4 has bolstered its fact ent commissioning team, responsible for some of the broadcaster’s biggest hits – including Big Fat Gypsy Weddings – with two appointments.
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NewsC4 to spotlight Secret Eaters
Overweight families will be put under 24-hour surveillance for a Channel 4 series that aims to examine the psychology and science of eating habits.
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NewsC5 places double order and eyes wider genres
Channel 5 has ordered a personal history World War II series and an in-house-produced Jedward show for 5*, as it gears up to move beyond its popular factual and fact ent core.
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NewsSky Living looks to give concerned celebs a platform
Sky Living is considering a strand called Cause Celeb in which celebrities explore a different cause or issue that is important to them personally.
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NewsUKTV seeks fresh comedy Gold
UKTV’s Gold is to inject millions into original content for the first time as it adds a raft of commissions to its “crown jewels” archive schedule.
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NewsGood Food to follow hunt for Roux scholar
Good Food is to revisit the Roux family for a one-off doc tracking its hunt for a new culinary scholar.
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NewsDarlow to make Concordia film
Darlow Smithson Productions is producing a new documentary about the Costa Concordia disaster for Discovery Networks International.
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NewsLuton extremists to feature in C4 doc
English Defence League co-founder Tommy Robinson and Sayful Islam, who has disrupted the homecoming parade of British troops, are to feature in a new Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsC4 Gypsy ad stirs protest
Ads for C4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings have sparked complaints from the London Gypsy Traveller Unit and two London Assembly Members.