All Commissioning articles – Page 534
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NewsTen Alps racing to finish C4 credit crunch doc
Ten Alps owned indie Blakeway Productions is in a race against time to finish a quick turnaround documentary for tonight's Channel 4's Dispatches.
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NewsBBC4 commissions WWI race drama
BBC4 has ordered a drama about the first black officer to lead British troops during World War I.
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NewsMacIntyre to front Sky 1 knife crime campaign
Sky 1 has signed up Donal MacIntyre to host a series of campaigning programmes addressing the menace of knife crime in the UK.
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NewsC4 to show 'real Grange Hill'
Channel 4 is lining up a real-life Grange Hill from the producers of its latest fly-on-the-wall series The Family.
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ITV1 to revisit Aspel's WW2 childhood
Michael Aspel will be reunited with friends he met as a World War II evacuee in a daytime show for ITV1.
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BBC2 to co-produce Hat Trick comedy
BBC2 is to screen medieval comedy Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire after signing up as co-production partner on the Hat Trick Productions comedy.
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NewsBrydon's Arbie wins BBC4 pilot
Rob Brydon's fledgling indie Arbie is to produce a comedy drama pilot for BBC4 about a wealthy Russian family living in London.
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NewsHatton to host Nuts TV chat show
Ricky Hatton is to host a live weekly chat show on Nuts TV in the channel's highest profile commission to date.
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NewsITV to revive C4's classic Graham Taylor football doc
ITV is to air an extended version of the landmark Graham Taylor documentary that went out 14 years ago on Channel 4 and has ordered a new film featuring the former England manager.
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NewsZig Zag on hunt for ‘American Winehouse'
Zig Zag Productions has won a commission worth more than $4m to go in search of an “American Amy Winehouse”.
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FeaturesEureka!: School of Comedy
Executive producer Andy Harries on a school revue's successful graduation to TV.
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NewsTwoFour wins first comedy order
TwoFour has won its first comedy commission - a Paramount Comedy pilot from two of the writers of BBC's The Wrong Door.
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Lion to explore classroom life in Damascus
BBC4 is to look at life in four Damascus classrooms in the latest series of its Open University foreign schools strand.
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FeaturesOn Set: Comedy commissioning
Indies must find new strategies to get funding for comedy programming.
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NewsBBC2 show gives£1m to novice City traders
BBC2 is to unravel the dark arts of the unstable global financial markets in a series that turns eight people into City traders with£1m to invest.
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NewsMonty Python star returns to TV
John Cleese is to make a welcome return to British screens where he will take a mischievous look at the mad world of gadgets in a six-part series for UKTV channel Dave.
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NewsBBC3 doubles run of Snog Marry Avoid
Celebrities are to undergo a ‘makeunder' in the second series of BBC3's Snog Marry Avoid?.
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NewsBBC3 to strip audiences
BBC3 has commissioned World of Wonder to pilot a “fashion gameshow” in which the audience strips to its underwear.
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NewsFive orders Flesh Eating Monster
Icon Films Production will travel to northern India to investigate an animal that has caused the death of several people for Five's Nature Shock strand.
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NewsSerafinowicz back at Christmas
BBC2 sketch format The Peter Serafinowicz Show is to return for a Christmas special.