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NewsC4 to profile Churchill's mother
Flame TV will profile Winston Churchill's mother, Jeanette ‘Jennie' Jerome, in a one-off documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsMedieval kids gameshow ordered by S4C
A new children's adventure gameshow inspired by the legend of King Arthur has been commissioned by Welsh-language channel S4C.
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Banks, bins and builders
Channel 4 documentary strand Cutting Edge will tackle the credit crunch, litter collections and British builders' attitudes towards their eastern European competitors in its latest run.
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Sky Real Lives fosters story of adoptive mum
Sky Real Lives and publisher Harper Collins will cross-promote a TV documentary and book based on the story of an adoptive mother of eight children with special needs.
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Chef Rachel to give UKTV a bake-up call
UKTV Food has signed TV chef Rachel Allen to reinvent baking in a major primetime series.
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NewsBBC3 dares Brits to face terrifying tasks
BBC3 will challenge young Brits to take on the scariest jobs in the world in a new series from the creator of Last Man Standing.
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FeaturesEureka!: Mutual Friends (Hat Trick for BBC1)
Co-creator Anil Gupta on the task of depicting the seldom-seen world of male friendships.
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NewsRed Dwarf to reunite on Dave
Cult BBC comedy Red Dwarf is poised to return after 10 years for a retrospective on UKTV channel Dave.
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NewsCeleb Scissorhands to return
Hairdresser Lee Staffird will again try to turn celebrities into hair and beauty experts in three weeks in his Camden ‘academy'.
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NewsBBC1 learns more New Tricks
Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, Denis Waterman and James Bolam are to return in a sixth series of BBC1's hit drama New Tricks.
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Bebo orders freshers' week show
Edinburgh 08: Bebo has commissioned a series revealing what students get up to in freshers' week.
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NewsITV1 hunting drama for 9pm
Edinburgh 08: Peter Fincham has outlined his plan to reinvigorate the schedule of ITV1, starting with finding hit dramas to fill the 9pm slot and expanding the channel's factual programming.
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NewsDoctor Who's Moffat to pen modern Sherlock Holmes
Edinburgh 08: Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has teamed up with The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss for a contemporary update of Sherlock Holmes.
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NewsGranny Bangers wins Dragons' Den prize
Edinburgh 08: A pitch for a documentary entitled Granny Bangers was the overall winner of the Dragon's Den: Factual & Documentaries session, with producer/director Sarah Cronin-Stanley securing an opening with Channel 4 to explore the idea further and£1,000 in funding.
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NewsUKTV calls for new wave of property formats
Edinburgh 08: Indies need to reinvent property shows to appeal to a new demographic according to Jane Rogerson, head of commissioning at UKTV.
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NewsDay One at Edinburgh
Edinburgh 08: A round-up of the best stories from the biggest sessions on the first day of the Edinburgh TV festival.
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NewsMore 4 plans return to original drama
Edinburgh 08: More 4 head Hamish Mykura has signaled his desire for original UK drama to return to the channel as part of a new focus on giving it a broader contemporary voice.
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NewsSky plans to hire its own Apprentice
Edinburgh 08: Sky 1 controller Richard Woolfe is on the hunt for more factual formats fronted by famous faces and is hunting an Apprentice-style show for the channel.
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NewsBBC3 to boost drama output
Edinburgh 08: BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has pledged to up the amount of drama on the corporation's digital youth channel and is also looking for new sitcom ideas.
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NewsBBC and ITV call for more studio-based sitcoms
Edinburgh 08: Senior comedy commissioners from the BBC and ITV have put out a call for more studio-based sitcoms.