All Commissioning articles – Page 541
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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.
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NewsSMG station will commission content
SMG's proposed Scottish digital station will commission original factual programming from Scottish indies, chief executive Rob Woodward has pledged.
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NewsSurf's up on C4
Channel 4 has ordered a one-off special on women's surfing from Welsh indie Boomerang+.
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NewsBBC Trust: WoCC works, but is confusing
The BBC Trust has heralded the WoCC a success - but says the corporation must still do more to “de-mystify” the commissioning mechanism.
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NewsITV spells out commissioning wishlist
Now new director of television Peter Fincham has briefed his team, Broadcast reveals what ITV's commissioners want, don't want and can't go without.
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NewsITV: Michaela Hennessy-Vass, commissioning editor, comedy
Sitcoms are the key priority for Hennessy-Vass, who has spent the past year refining what works for ITV in scripted comedy.
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NewsITV: Zai Bennett, controller, ITV2
Bennett wants big name celebrities to spearhead a raft of new factual entertainment and comedy shows.
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NewsITV: Laura Mackie, director of drama commissioning
The hunt for returnable 9pm series remains Mackie's top priority, with the emphasis on giving familiar genres an original twist.
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NewsITV: Adam MacDonald, controller of daytime
Indies can't complain about a lack of clarity from MacDonald: his wish list is perhaps the most precise of the commissioners.
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Features
Eureka!: Traveller's Century (Icon Films for BBC4)
Executive producer Harry Marshall on his 25-year attempt to celebrate an iconic travel book.
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NewsITV: Alison Sharman, director of factual and daytime
Sharman has identified authored journeys as a major opportunity for ITV1 and, having dipped her toe in the water with Robbie Coltrane: B-Road Britain, the director of factual has already ordered Martin Clunes: A Man and his Dogs and the Griff Rhys Jones-fronted World's Greatest Cities.
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England face Germany again for ITV4 Legends
ITV4 will screen the rematch of old rivals England v Germany as part of its Football Legends strand.
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NewsITV to remake dark drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Mammoth Screen is developing another adaptation of the controversial novel Bouquet of Barbed Wire.