All Commissioning articles – Page 497
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C4 is committed to docs but price worries remain
Channel 4 has committed to making another 40 editions of Dispatches and 30 of Cutting Edge in 2010, but factual producers still fear the effects of the channel’s cost-cutting.
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BBC1 goes Around the World with XM25 scheme
Former Touch Productions execs Nick Watts and Joseph Maxwell have teamed up with Nasa for the first project from their new company, Burning Blue Media.
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NewsBBC plans 'pop-up restaurant' show
BBC2 is piloting a primetime reality format based on “pop-up restaurants” – the second of its type to hit the headlines in as many months.
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NewsITV1 orders more Lewis
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are set to return for a fourth series of ITV1 murder mystery drama Lewis.
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NewsBBC1 to animate Gruffalo
BBC1’s is planning an animated version of the bestselling children’s book The Gruffalo as the centrepiece of its Christmas schedule.
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NewsBlakeway wins Nobel commissions
Blakeway Productions has won a double commission for two shows on this year’s Nobel Prize awards.
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NewsBBC comedy chief quits for Sky
The BBC’s comedy chief Lucy Lumsden is leaving the corporation after 11 years to join Sky.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsCelebrity life-share leads ITV2’s autumn schedule
Actress Scarlett Johansson will invite Fearne Cotton to experience her Hollywood lifestyle in a shadow-a-celebrity series for ITV2 this autumn.
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NewsC4 sends producer Wild for sole survivor doc
Channel 4 will cross a frontier in survival programming by dropping a TV producer into the Canadian wilderness for 12 weeks with just a camera and a backpack.
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Living goes around Britain with Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff will sleep in a haunted castle, row with the Oxford blues and sail a long boat down the canals of Britain in six-part special for Living.
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CBeebies dishes up food series targeted at tots
The BBC is to teach preschoolers how to cook and where their food comes from, in a new CBeebies cookery show.
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NewsBBC1 asks again Who Do You Think You Are?
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, Big Brother presenter Davina McCall and Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles are to all feature in the new run of BBC1’s genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?
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NewsDisney Bites back
Disney Channel UK has recommissioned Prism Entertainment to make a second series of its Life Bites short-form series.
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NewsWhizz Kid wins ABC order for celebrity dance show
Whizz Kid Entertainment is remaking its Comic Relief celebrity dance format Let’s Dance for America’s ABC1 as a primetime show.
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NewsCBBC focuses on science with double order
CBBC has ordered a guide to “holidaying in space” and a second run of Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab - both to tie in with the BBC’s 2010 year of science.
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NewsLumsden on lookout for agile comedy series
BBC controller of comedy commissioning Lucy Lumsden has asked indies to tender “nimble” series that could be shifted to pre-watershed slots if they are successful.
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NewsBBC1 debut for Nigel Slater with simple cooking
Nigel Slater is to move from BBC2 to BBC1 for a primetime show about “achievable” cooking.
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Lime moves into docs with Beach Boy co-pro film
Hollyoaks producer Lime Pictures is venturing into arts programming with a BBC4 profile of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson.
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Tigress to make all four docs for Nature Shock run
Tigress Productions is to make all four films of Five’s latest series of its Nature Shock doc strand.