All Commissioning articles – Page 507
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NewsNesbitt: drama funding crisis is killing roles
James Nesbitt is being forced to look for Hollywood acting roles because of the funding crisis in British drama.
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NewsSky 1 adds twist for Are You Smarter...?
Sky 1 is revamping its kids-vs-adults quiz by asking mums and dads Are You Smarter Than Your 10-Year-Old?
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NewsFincham to chair Broadcast Entertainment Forum
ITV director of television Peter Fincham is to chair Broadcast’s TV Entertainment Forum in September, which will kick off with a keynote from Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan.
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NewsBBC lands the best job in the world
BBC1 has ordered a doc on the search for a caretaker for an Australian tropical island - widely billed as “the best job in the world”.
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NewsBBC1 to follow stay-at-home Brits
BBC1 will investigate how the recession will prompt millions of Brits to stay at home this summer in a series from Crackit Productions.
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C4 tells disabled people How to Look Good Naked
Channel 4 has ordered a three-part run of How to Look Good Naked featuring people with disabilities.
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Jack the Ripper heads Five’s Revealed strand
Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie will investigate the relationship between Jack the Ripper and the press in one of six films for Five’s Revealed strand.
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BBC goes for Gold in Worst team’s Olympics spoof
The BBC is lining up a mockumentary about the 2012 Olympic Games from the writers of The Worst Week of My Life.
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CBeebies quick to reorder Waybuloo
CBeebies has commissioned RDF Media Group subsidiary The Foundation to produce 50 more episodes of Waybuloo just weeks after the first 100 shows began airing.
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NewsBBC1 hunts pop factual docs with youth appeal
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt is looking for 10.35pm documentaries and popular factual series that will help skew the channel towards younger viewers.
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NewsBBC1 mobilises Land Girls for daytime drama push
BBC1 is stepping up its daytime drama push with a major period series about four women working in the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War.
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NewsPortillo takes trains back in time for BBC2 daytime
Former Tory cabinet minister Michael Portillo will embark on a series of epic British rail journeys as part of a stripped daytime series for BBC2.
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NewsC4 pilots Come Dine with Me follow-up
Channel 4 is lining up a new cookery format from ITV Studios, the producer of global smash Come Dine with Me.
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Trevor Eve to star in BBC1 version of kids bestseller
BBC1 is to turn Frank Cottrell Boyce’s bestselling children’s book, Framed, into a family show starring Trevor Eve.
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Alan Titchmarsh springs into ITV1 seasonal show
Alan Titchmarsh is to front an ITV1 series on the seasons and climate change for ITV1.
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NewsRenovation, renovation, renovation on C4
Property Ladder creator John Silver and host Sarah Beeny are joining forces again for a Channel 4 series that will renovate homes beset by serious problems such as subsidence or pests.
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NewsBBC1 revives spirit of Tomorrow's World
BBC1 is to reinvent the Tomorrow’s World format with new science series Bang Goes the Theory.
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Primates to "funk up" CBeebies
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington is to “funk up the channel” with a major new 52 x 22-minute live action series fronted by primates.
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NewsBBC4 needs more Answers
BBC4 has commissioned 13 more episodes of offbeat quiz show We Need Answers following a three-part trial run.
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NewsCITV orders more Emu
Anarchic puppet Emu is to return to ITV1 for a second run following its revival two years ago.