All Commissioning articles – Page 541
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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.
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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.