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NewsC4 team with Film Council to fund animation
Channel 4 and the UK Film Council have launched a nationwide hunt for the best emerging animation talent.
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NewsNatural World celebrates 25th with three-year order
BBC2's Natural World is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a three-year recommission.
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NewsWoods slams 'parochial' doc commissioners
Broadcasters are “ghettoising” international coverage with a ratings focus that is creating an increasingly parochial mindset, according to documentary maker Brian Woods.
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NewsBebo to order more shows
Bebo will commission at least six original productions next year under the banner of 'Bebo Originals'.
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NewsE4 commissions Asbo superhero drama
E4 has commissioned a drama series in which a bunch of teenagers with Asbos develop superhero powers.
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FeaturesEureka!: Dead Set (Zeppotron for E4)
Creator Charlie Brooker on why his gory horror series owes as much to 24 as to Big Brother.
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Firecracker bear series for Animal Planet
Animal Planet has commissioned Firecracker Films to make a full series based on its Five documentary The Man Who Lives with Bears.
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Harcourt-Cooze secures sweet deal with C4
Eccentric chocolatier Willie Harcourt-Cooze is to return to Channel 4 for a Christmas special and a series that aims to introduce a better class of chocolate to the UK.
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NewsTwoFour tackles boozy Brits abroad
TwoFour Broadcast has won a major commission from Bravo that will delve into the rising epidemic of binge-drinking Brits abroad.
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NewsObjective's Perrin will be traditional sitcom
Objective Productions' forthcoming update of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin will jettison the bulk of the classic comedy's characters and the ongoing storyline in which the main character faked his own death.
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BBC2 orders credit crunch property design show
BBC2 has ordered “the antithesis to previous property programmes” from Maverick Television.
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NewsDalglish to appear in Hillsborough doc
Football legend Kenny Dalglish is to appear in a documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, made by his daughter's indie for The History Channel.
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NewsDylan Thomas tale animated for Christmas
MIPCOM: Dylan Thomas story A Child's Christmas in Wales is to be brought to life in a new animated film narrated by Brother and Sisters star Matthew Rhys - who also played the famous Welsh poet in The Edge of Love.
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NewsITV to mark Torvill and Dean anniversary
ITV1 has commissioned a one-off documentary on ice legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their infamous Bolero routine at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics.
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NewsC4 orders Charles love triangle doc
Channel 4 is to air a documentary about one of Prince Charles' early romances and a little-known love triangle that included him and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
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NewsBeat the Star to return
MIPCOM: ITV1 have ordered a second series of the Vernon Kay-fronted gameshow Beat the Star from indies Diverse and Gallowgate.
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NewsITV seals huge Krypton Factor AFP deal
ITV1's revival of The Krypton Factor will be fully funded by software and services provider Sage in the broadcaster's biggest advertiser funded programme deal to date.
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NewsWedding bells for Heaviest Man
Five is to revisit its World's Heaviest Man documentary by heading back to Mexico to see him get married.
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NewsTarrant signs for ITV1 cash quiz
ITV director of television Peter Fincham has secured Chris Tarrant to host 12 Yard's ITV1 gameshow The Colour of Money.
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Zig Zag eyes orders from BBC and ITV
Zig Zag Productions has hired two “big hitters” from the BBC and ITV as part of a strategy to win more commissions from the two largest broadcasters.