All Commissioning articles – Page 533
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NewsBBC Vision's commissioning wishlist
As the credit crunch bites, the BBC is calling for more feel-good TV. With budgets stretched and its audience fragmented, all genres must be bold and inclusive.
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NewsBBC schedules its intentions
The BBC is feeling the credit crunch in more ways than one. Besides the staff cuts, the steadily tightening production purse strings, and the corporation's slew of economics scoops, the BBC is reshaping its schedules to relieve some of the wider economic gloom facing audiences.
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NewsBBC Vision: Michael Carrington, controller of CBeebies
Michael Carrington is on the hunt for new content for web-savvy two-to four-year-olds.
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NewsBBC Vision: Anne Gilchrist, controller of CBBC
Anne Gilchrist has taken the BBC's “fewer, bigger, better” mantra to heart and wants to find key brands that CBBC can go “hell for leather” with on all platforms.
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NewsBBC Vision: Liam Keelan, controller of daytime
Weekday mornings on BBC1 are about current affairs, presented in an accessible, tangible way that makes viewers feel empowered.
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NewsBBC Vision: Elaine Bedell, controller of entertainment
It is not long since Elaine Bedell commissioned physical gameshows Hole in the Wall and Total Wipeout for Saturday night on BBC1 but there is still room for one more, she says.
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NewsBBC Vision: Lucy Lumsden, controller of comedy
Lucy Lumsden wants about half of the BBC's sitcoms to be filmed in front of a studio audience - but currently only one in five of the ideas she receives fit the bill, so her headline plea is for more audience shows.
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NewsBBC Vision: George Entwistle, controller of knowledge
Evenings on BBC1 are a tough spot for factual, and controller of knowledge commissioning George Entwistle is looking for a pre-watershed series that will do for the channel what the “kinetic adventure” shows Amazon or Tribe have done for BBC2.
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NewsBBC Vision: Jane Tranter, outgoing controller of fiction
Top of the BBC's wish list is a few more laughs, according to Jane Tranter. These could manifest themselves in comedy drama, “dramedy”, or as touches of levity in decidedly solemn pieces.
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NewsITV poised to bring back The Krypton Factor
ITV is on the brink of reviving “television's toughest quiz show”, The Krypton Factor, after 13 years. It is understood the commercial broadcaster is close to ordering a new series of the show from ITV Productions within weeks.
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BBC4 orders WW1 drama
BBC4 has ordered a drama about the first black officer to lead British troops during World War I.
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FeaturesEureka!: Jack: A Soldier's Story (BBC Vision for BBC3)
Producer Ben Anderson on a young soldier's experiences of serving in Afghanistan.
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UKTV Style homes in on fantasy trio
UKTV Style will help a host of famous faces find their dream home as part of a celebrity spin-off of its Fantasy Homes franchise.
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Woolcock develops hip-hop musical for C4
Film-maker Penny Woolcock is to return to Birmingham for a gritty hip-hop musical for Channel 4.
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NewsNo Place Like Home moves to ITV daytime
ITV is resurrecting one of its most successful peaktime factual shows from last year as a stripped daytime format.
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NewsBritannia High to air final episode live
ITV's new teen musical drama Britannia High will climax with a 75 minute live-to-air spectacular, emulating the fictional performing arts school's end of year concert.
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CommentBlog: Britannia High ep. 1
The first episode of ITV1's teen musical drama Britannia High may have been cheesier than a Brie factory, but Kate McMahon absolutely loved it.
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NewsBBC2 fills up on Supersizers
BBC2 has ordered a second helping of hit Silver River series The Supersizers Go...
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NewsShaun the Sheep to return
CBBC has ordered a second series of Shaun the Sheep from Aardman Animation as the kids show continues to flock around the world.
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NewsMorris' terrorist comedy set for cinema
Film4 is funding satirist Chris Morris' latest project after both the BBC and Channel 4 rejected it for TV.