All Commissioning articles – Page 516
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Outline lands first food series
BBC2 will show families how they can keep eating fine food despite the recession in a 6 x 60-minute series from Outline Productions.
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C4 wants longer run of Country House Rescue
Troubleshooter Ruth Watson is to offer more tough-talking advice in an expanded 14-part second run of Channel 4's Country House Rescue.
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Kids indie lands debut commission
Everything Works, a start-up indie run by two former Cartoon Network executives, has won its first ever commission.
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Gold to reopen Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers star and co-writer Connie Booth is to break her 30 year silence on the BBC1 sitcom in one of two specials for UKTV channel Gold.
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Being Human gets one-off special
BBC3 is to screen a Being Human special next week, offering a behind the scenes look at the hit comedy drama.
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BBC1 orders more Total Wipeout
BBC1 has ordered two more series of Richard Hammond-fronted physical gameshow Total Wipeout following an eight-part run this year.
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Engle to make feminism docs for BBC4
The director behind the critically acclaimed BBC series Lefties and Jews is to turn her attention to feminism for BBC4.
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CBBC orders high profile drama slate for 2010
CBBC has ordered a raft of new dramas, including a Being Human-style comedy for children and the first TV work from novelist Jeanette Winterson since Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to host C4 quiz
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been lined up to host a Channel 4 pilot quiz show about food.
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Great Escape for Ramsay in C4 Indian quest
The famously carnivorous Gordon Ramsay will get a taste of pure Hindu vegetarianism in a gastronomic quest across India for Channel 4.
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£1m show up for grabs as Scissorhands axed
BBC3 has axed Celebrity Scissorhands and put aside£1m to create a “channel-defining” stripped event for the autumn.
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Blast! docs examine family matters for BBC2
Blast! Films will reunite estranged families in a country house for a BBC2 series.
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US comedian pens pilot for C4 Showcase season
Arrested Development star David Cross has written a sitcom pilot for Channel 4's second Comedy Showcase season.
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Making a crisis out of drama
Peter Kosminsky last week attacked the practice of commissioning to order and accused the BBC of playing it safe. Kate McMahon asks commissioners and indies for their reaction.
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Eureka!: Making reading the new rock 'n' roll
Creator and co-director Lucy Goodman on tackling child literacy through a rock puppy.
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BBC1 to champion donation drive
BBC1 will highlight the need for blood and organ donation in the latest of its hard-hitting live, stripped programmes in daytime.
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CBeebies orders more Grandpa in My Pocket
CBeebies has commissioned Adastra Creative to make a second series of Grandpa in My Pocket, the live action series about a boy whose grandfather can shrink.
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Peep Show to return for seventh series
Channel 4 has commissioned a seventh series of Bafta-winning sitcom Peep Show, whose writers picked up an RTS Award last night.
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Chuggington on track for second series
CBeebies has acquired a second series of Chuggington, the talking train animation made by Ludorum.
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BBCW wins NBC commission
BBC Worldwide is making a travelogue/gameshow hybrid series for NBC from its LA production studio.