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NewsITV1 orders ‘Las Vegas-style' daytime show
Bradley Walsh will preside over a giant Las Vegas-style slot machine in an afternoon quiz show that will be stripped across ITV1 weekdays.
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NewsBBC2 Switch orders ‘Baywatch boot camp'
The BBC is to subject eight British adolescents to “Baywatch boot camp”, in a new 8 x 30-minute ob-doc series that aims to turn teens into US lifeguards.
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Sky One charts addict's last days
Sky One is to follow the last three months of a heroin addict's battle with an ultimately fatal addiction.
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Christie goes behind bars in Virgin series
Linford Christie and Joe Pasquale will tough it out in the world's most merciless prisons in a new factual entertainment series for Virgin 1.
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FeaturesEureka!: Stacked (Brocken Spectre for Channel 4)
4Talent Pilot winner Bryony Ive on seeing her first drama commission come to life.
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NewsBBC1 obstacle course to Wipeout contestants
BBC1 will challenge contestants to tackle the world's biggest obstacle course in a UK version of global Endemol hit Wipeout.
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NewsC4 doc looks at ‘The Charles Generation'
Men born on the same day as Prince Charles will tell their stories in a Sue Bourne documentary that forms part of Channel 4's autumn schedule.
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NewsBBC plots 39 Steps remake
The BBC is to revive John Buchan's classic espionage thriller The 39 Steps in a one-off dramatisation to be made in Scotland.
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NewsMale Supernanny spin-off greenlit
Ricochet is making a male spin-off of Supernanny for US network ABC.
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NewsCurrie and Waterman to front regional BBC1 docs
Edwina Currie and Pete Waterman are to explore the effects of the closure of many of Britain's rural railways in the 1960s in a series of regional programmes for BBC1.
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NewsReady Steady Cook serves up 20th series
BBC2 has recommissioned Ready Steady Cook for a 20th series, and is moving the show to Television Centre for the first time.
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NewsSky to double arts content with new channels
BSkyB will double its coverage of the arts with an additional two bespoke Sky Arts channels.
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NewsThe Banana Splits to reform for TV comeback
Cartoon Network is resurrecting arguably the world's greatest animal-based rock band - The Banana Splits.
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NewsDisney UK orders teen sketch show
Prism Entertainment has won a commission from Disney Channel UK to produce a 16 x 5-minute comedy sketch series starring young British actors.
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NewsBBC3 to show teens the rod
Teenagers will get a taste of the strict upbringings typical of Ghanaian, Indian and Jamaican parents in a new factual series at the heart of BBC3's autumn season.
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NewsBBC4 to get raunchy for Mills & Boon's 100th
BBC4 is to mark the 100th anniversary of pulp romance publisher Mills & Boon with a documentary and a “raunchy” one-off drama exploring the company's beginnings.
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NewsKelly Brook to join Moving Wallpaper
Kelly Brook and Alan Dale are to join ITV1 comedy-drama Moving Wallpaper and will star in a one-off zombie drama that will feature in the series.
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NewsITV1 to expose scammers
Journalist Morland Sanders will profile some of the biggest insurance swindles ever exposed in the UK as part of a new three-part series for ITV1.
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NewsDiscovery's Chop Shop takes celeb spin
Cars owned by Martin Kemp, David Ginola and Johnny Vegas will be given a radical overhaul in the second series of Discovery UK's Chop Shop.
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NewsRhys Jones to front revived It'll Be Alright on the Night
ITV is resurrecting hit blooper show It'll Be Alright on the Night - and has called on indies to send in their out-takes.