All Commissioning articles – Page 463
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The Broadcast Interview
Nick Wilson, Five
He’s produced some of the seminal kids’ TV shows of the past three decades, and the long-serving director of children’s at Five is not afraid to speak his mind.
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Film writer pens Hackney drama for C4
The indie behind Poppy Shakespeare and Ronan Bennett, who wrote Johnny Depp movie Public Enemies, are working together on a Channel 4 drama set among the gangs of a Hackney estate.
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BBC1 unveils Sunday religious show
BBC Breakfast presenter Susanna Reid is to front a new Sunday morning “religion and ethics” show for BBC1.
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Dave orders Llewellyn chatshow
Dave has scooped up a online chatshow hosted by Robert Llewellyn in which he interviews guests while driving.
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Rickman and Thompson reunite for BBC drama
Harry Potter stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson will feature as long-lost lovers in a television adaptation of an award-winning Christopher Reid poem for BBC2.
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BBC3 to pilot Jason Lewis comedy
Young black comedian Jason Lewis has won a pilot from BBC3 that will mix sketches and musical parodies.
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Female duo win BBC2 sketch series order
BBC2 has ordered a full series of comedy duo Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver’s sketch show following a pilot.
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Nick Knowles to front BBC2 quiz
BBC2 has ordered a new stripped BBC2 daytime quiz show from 12 Yard and has handed an extended ordered for Remarkable Television’s quiz Pointless.
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Twofour doc to follow GB Paralympic selection
Channel 4’s build-up to the 2012 Paralympic Games has stepped up, with Twofour making a 10-part series following the selection process for the British team.
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Five cookery show to sample wares from UK’s food markets
Property expert Amanda Lamb is to sample the offerings of the UK’s best-loved food markets in an AFP evening cookery show for Five.
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Catherine Whelton, Yesterday (UKTV)
Having won an extension in its Freeview hours, UKTV’s Yesterday is looking to build on its original commissions. One of the channel’s commissioning editors speaks to Alex Farber.
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Bacon to chew the fat with pub guests for ITV4
ITV4 viewers are to get an insight into male pub-talk in a Richard Bacon-fronted chatshow from Talkback Thames.
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E4 lines up first Lime sitcom as female pal for Inbetweeners
E4 is eyeing Lime Pictures’ first sitcom as a female-centred companion to The Inbetweeners.
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Trio win double orders in latest run of C4’s First Cut
Century Films, Minnow Films and Lambent Productions have each won two commissions for Channel 4’s emerging-directors’ docs strand First Cut.
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Bafta winner pens 1950s Kudos series for BBC2
A passionate love triangle in a 1950s TV newsroom is at the heart of a new drama for BBC2 by Bafta-winning writer Abi Morgan.
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Wogan explores Irish roots in RDF doc for BBC1
Broadcasting veteran Terry Wogan will revisit his native Ireland in a BBC1 documentary double-header from RDF Media Group-owned indie Presentable.
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Fry & Laurie reunite after 15 years
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have reunited to celebrate 30 years of their partnership in a one-off special for UKTV’s Gold.
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BBC nabs Stirling Prize in arts push
The BBC’s arts commissioning editor Mark Bell has unveiled a raft of new programmes that includes snatching the broadcast rights to the Stirling Prize for architecture from Channel 4.
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C4 orders daily religion strand
Belfast-based Waddell Media has won a nightly religious slot on Channel 4 – part of more than £1.5m worth of new commissions from Northern Ireland.
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ITV2 blessed with Katie Price wedding series
Katie Price and Alex Reid’s wedding blessing will be captured on camera for an ITV show.