All Commissioning articles – Page 488
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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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NewsC4 reorders Brooker panel show
Charlie Brooker’s satirical panel show You Have Been Watching has been recommissioned by Channel 4.
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NewsPatrick Stewart's Macbeth to follow David Tennant Hamlet on BBC
Patrick Stewart will reprise his role as Macbeth on the BBC next year, following the TV version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet starring David Tennant, which airs this Christmas.
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NewsEx-C4 commissioner launches comedy on shopping channel
Former Big Brother commissioning editor Shed Simove has bought space on the Shop on TV teleshopping channel to launch comedy show Shed Simove: Ideas Man.
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NewsC4 orders NYE Rude Tube special
C4 will count down to 2010 with a two-hour Rude Tube special featuring the top 100 viral clips in history.
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NewsBBC2 backs second series of Miranda
BBC2 has ordered a second series of Miranda, the pre-watershed studio comedy show starring Miranda Hart.