All Commissioning articles – Page 479
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NewsTitchmarsh and Don back on BBC2
Alan Titchmarsh and Monty Don are to return to their roots for two new BBC2 gardening series.
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NewsShiver series to showcase houseproud Brits
ITV1 plans to take a look behind the doors of Britain’s proudest homeowners in a Come Dine With Me-style daytime gameshow.
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NewsHeat on drama indies as film producers court BBC
Drama indies are facing increasing competition from feature film producers who are turning to the BBC with projects that never made it as cinema releases.
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NewsHoop Dreams director to make Storyville film
Steve James, the director of Oscar-nominated documentary Hoop Dreams, is to meet former gang members who break up fights on the streets of Chicago in a film for BBC’s Storyville strand.
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CBeebies set to order Snapper’s CGI alien series
CBeebies is poised to order a CGI animated children’s series based on Nick Butterworth’s bestselling books about an alien called Q Pootle 5.
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NewsFive puts Chinese cookery AFP on peaktime menu
Five’s next step in its AFP output strategy is to serve up a peaktime Chinese cookery show paid for by Sharwood’s owner Premier Foods.
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NewsBBC unveils drama line-up
VIDEO: Crime drama, an Eighties season and a new John Lennon biopic make up the highlights of the BBC’s winter/spring drama line-up.
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NewsMost Haunted going live on Saturday nights
Living’s popular paranormal series Most Haunted is to air as a live Saturday night show when it returns for a new series of investigations.
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NewsC4 to mummify victim of terminal illness
Channel 4 is eyeing up a provocative documentary in which a terminally ill person would volunteer to be mummified upon their death.
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NewsRobert Peston and Lindsay Lohan to front BBC3 current affairs
BBC3 has expanded its repertoire of factual presenters to include Robert Peston, Lindsay Lohan, Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts and Small Island actor Ashley Walters.
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NewsBBC3 pins hopes on season of pilots to find next Being Human
BBC3 is hunting for the next Being Human with a second season of comedy-drama pilots for the spring.
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NewsChannel 4 beefs up drama division to spend BB cash
Channel 4 has expanded its drama commissioning team, making two appointments as it gears up to spend its post-Big Brother windfall.
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NewsDragons' Den star hits high street
Maverick TV has teamed up with Dragons’ Den’s Theo Paphitis for a BBC2 series in which members of the public will compete to get major retailers to stock products they have designed.
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NewsFoulkes to run Mentorn Scotland
Jerry Foulkes has been named the new boss of Mentorn Scotland and will kick off by executive producing an extended run of its BBC daytime show Cowboy Trap.
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NewsNat Geo UK reorders Greatest Machines
National Geographic Channel UK has reordered Britain’s Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie from indie The Gamma Project.
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NewsBillie and Belle to meet on ITV2
ITV2 has ordered a Billie Piper-meets-the-real-Belle de Jour doc from Tiger Aspect.
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NewsWatchdog to return in spring as live show
BBC1 stalwart Watchdog will return next spring as a revamped live show, following lower than hoped ratings for the recent autumn run.
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NewsESPN Classic orders sports panel show
ESPN Classic has stepped up its original programming slate, ordering its first quiz panel show from indie Bite Yer Legs.
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NewsBBC U-turn over Not Going Out
BBC1 has reversed its decision to axe Not Going Out, committing to a fourth series that will air in a new, later slot.
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