All Commissioning articles – Page 455
-
NewsSam Mendes to work on BBC Shakespeare season
Sam Mendes, Jane Campion and Sir David Hare have been signed up by the BBC’s controller of drama Ben Stephenson to work on dramas for its autumn/winter season.
-
NewsC4 orders new comedy dramas
The indies behind Britz and Skins are to make two new comedy drama series for Channel 4, utilising money freed up from the axing of Big Brother.
-
NewsBBC names regional comedy exec
Kristian Smith has been appointed executive editor of out-of-London comedy commissioning for the BBC.
-
NewsFood Network orders first UK series
Food Network UK has commissioned its first long-form British series featuring London chef and market trader Andy Bates.
-
NewsRumoured demise of Night Garden premature
BBC chiefs have confirmed that a new series of popular children’s TV show In The Night Garden will be made, ending reports that it was coming to an end.
-
NewsBBC4 devoting £1.5m to new events coverage
The BBC is allocating £1.5m for its arts and culture channel BBC4 towards coverage of three cultural events for 2012/3.
-
NewsBBC unveils £5m 'learning' fund
The BBC is to plough up to £5m into a range of initiatives that will provide children and adults with learning opportunities around flagship dramas and factual series.
-
NewsMaverick wins Disney fashion order
Disney Channel has ordered a run of short-form fashion shows from Maverick Television.
-
NewsWag TV to make murderers’ wives series for C&I
Factual specialist Wag TV has won a trio of orders including Married To A Murderer, its first commission for the Crime & Investigation Network.
-
NewsComedy Central UK seeks British comedies to sit with Friends
BROADCAST COMEDY FORUM: Comedy Central UK is hunting for two British comedies to pair with Friends as part of a push for UK commissions to make up one third of output by 2013.
-
NewsBird wins commissions for BBC North ent team
BBC Entertainment North’s new creative director, Dominic Bird, has staffed up his team and won two BBC3 commissions that build on existing brands.
-
NewsBBC Vision acts to cut red tape
Jana Bennett has tasked BBC Vision with reducing compliance red tape after taking on board concerns from producers.
-
NewsC5 conjures up illusionist gameshow
Channel 5 has ordered an entertainment series that combines magic and illusion with a gameshow.
-
NewsC4 visits trapped miners
Channel 4 and US broadcaster PBS have ordered a fast-turnaround doc from Pioneer Productions on the 33 trapped Chilean miners.
-
NewsCaroline Aherne developing ITV1 sitcom
BROADCAST COMEDY FORUM: ITV1 is eyeing a sitcom from Royle Family writer Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope as it seeks to broaden its scripted comedy output beyond Benidorm.
-
NewsC4 extends Million Pound Drop
Channel 4 game show The Million Pound Drop – Live will be extended into a weekly series after a second run of stripped episdes.
-
NewsBBC lines up Shakespeare season
The BBC is planning a major new season around Shakespeare, including new versions of his most acclaimed plays and a series of documentaries examining the life and times of the Bard.
-
NewsBBC3 orders more young Question Time
BBC3 is positioning itself as the home for politics aimed at young people with four new editions of a youth-based Question Time in the pipeline.
-
NewsTaggart writer adapts Field of Blood for BBC
BBC Scotland is to adapt Denise Mina novel The Field of Blood, with Taggart and Rebus screenwriter David Kane writing and directing.
-
NewsBBC in talks to adapt queens book
The BBC is currently in discussions to adapt a book about pre-Elizabethan queens into a new series.