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BBC4 follows Smith on first foreign holiday
BBC4 is to send veteran actress Liz Smith on her first-ever holiday abroad in a one-off documentary that it sees as a potential strand about celebrities' unrealised ambitions.
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NewsChung and Holland to front T4 fashion
Gok's Fashion Fix co-presenter Alexa Chung is to front a second weekly Channel 4 fashion magazine show - the first style news programme for teen strand T4.
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NewsSimpson to teach war reporting for BBC2 series
John Simpson will teach adventurers Ranulph Fiennes and Robin Knox-Johnston to file news reports from a war-zone as part of a series for BBC2.
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CommentBlog: Pitching documentaries
Pitching a documentary can be a stressful and tortured affair, and a bit of celebrity name dropping can help your cause, writes Robin Parker.
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NewsITV orders Welsh millionaires series
Wales' top millionaires are baring all for a new ITV series that will get under the skin of the country's richest people.
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NewsC4 to present Britain through foreign eyes
Channel 4 has commissioned a series of shorts from Tiger Aspect, to be filmed by foreign students on attachment with the indie.
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NewsR1 agony uncle to front BBC doc
Radio 1's Dr Mark Hamilton is to launch a crusade on underage binge-drinking in an investigative doc for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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NewsITV reorders National Movie Awards
ITV is rolling out the red carpet again for coverage of the second National Movie Awards in September.
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NewsAvalon to give BBC3 Mouth to Mouth
Avalon Television is to produce BBC3's first multiplatform comedy-drama, which will air on the web and mobile phones before moving to TV.
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NewsRevived Minder will stick to original's principles, says Five
Five has revealed details of its revival of ITV classic Minder, promising the show will have the “pre-watershed sensibility” of the original.
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MTV orders another dose of Katona reality
MTV will continue its journey with ex-Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona with a one-off special following her raising her baby.
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NewsBennett lines up ITV2 celebrity panel show
Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby are set to be the team captains in an ITV2 panel show being pitched as “Have I Got News for You meets Heat magazine”.
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NewsLiving hands Goody first TV show since CBB race row
Jade Goody will make her first significant TV appearance since nearly costing Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan his job as part of Living's Living with... strand.
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NewsClunes to island-hop Britain for ITV1 show
ITV1 is sending Martin Clunes on a sailing tour of Britain's islands in a major primetime series.
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Raw examines vast veg
Raw is to explore the world of giant vegetable growing in an upcoming edition of Channel 4's new talent doc showcase First Cuts.
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Fat Doctor will roll again
Discovery Home and Health has ordered a third 10 x 60-minute run of Electric Sky Productions' Fat Doctor.
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FeaturesEureka!: Britain from Above (Lion TV for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4)
Executive producer Nick Caitliff mapped Britain from the sky - and battled its weather.
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NewsWish to animate kids book Wibbly Pig
Wish Films is to make an animated adaptation of kids book Wibbly Pig for CBeebies, and TVO and Knowledge Network in Canada.
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NewsNick UK orders ‘channel defining' Saturday show
Nickelodeon UK has ordered a “channel defining” horror-themed comedy series as its flagship show for Saturday mornings.
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NewsNew Saturday night dance show for ITV1
ITV1 has unveiled a one-off Saturday night entertainment show that will take viewers on a nostalgic journey through the world's biggest dance crazes.