All Commissioning articles – Page 549
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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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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.
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Bafta-winner Garfield to star in Red Ridings
Boy A star Andrew Garfield is to follow his Bafta-winning performance with the lead role in a series of dramas for Channel 4 based on David Peace's Red Ridings novels.
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NewsITV1 pilots Fix It-style show from Gallowgate
ITV is to turn Amanda Holden into a modern-day Jimmy Savile with a fix it-style format from Ant and Dec's indie Gallowgate Productions.
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NewsITV: John Kaye Cooper, controller of entertainment
Friday nights on ITV1 are set for a shake-up under Peter Fincham, with 9pm earmarked for fact ent and reality shows and 10pm set to be the home of new comedy and entertainment formats.
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BBC1's Big Questions returns to Sundays
BBC1 has commissioned a second six-month series of Mentorn Media's Sunday morning religious show The Big Questions.
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NewsRichardson to probe Brit sex for C4
Presenter Anna Richardson is to explore Britain's sexual history and the hang ups and sexual health of the “Sex and the City generation” for Channel 4.
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NewsITV to air doc on jailed canoe couple
A documentary about the double life of ‘canoe man' John Darwin will air on ITV1 next week, following news that he and his wife are to be jailed for fraud.
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Friends step in for new Fiver show
Gangs of friends will ambush one of their group in a bid to help him or her overcome self-destructive behaviour in a show for digital channel Fiver.
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus: Fiver
Fiver overcame a potentially rocky start to increase its share by 60% with a strategy of targeting men - and a younger audience than channel predecessor Five Life, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsWalters to star in BBC euthanasia drama
Julie Walters is to star in a new BBC1 drama based on the true story of a doctor and her husband who are both diagnosed with incurable neurological illnesses.
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NewsC4's MobileAct to relaunch
Channel 4's music showcase MobileAct Unsigned is to return with a new name and will feature singer-songwriters.
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NewsBleasdale pens BBC war drama
Alan Bleasdale is to return to writing for the BBC with an Anglo-German co-production about the sinking of a British ship by a German U-boat during the Second World War.
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NewsWest Park to chronicle London's Shard of Glass
West Park Pictures has been commissioned by Channel 4 and Discovery Networks EMEA to produce a documentary about the construction of London Bridge Tower, also known as the Shard of Glass.
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NewsNI celebs recount Troubles for ITV1
Actor James Nesbitt and comedian Patrick Kielty will talk about growing up amid the sectarian violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles in a 60-minute documentary for ITV1.
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NewsITV orders Horowitz crash drama
ITV has commissioned a conspiracy drama by Anthony Horowitz that will feature what it claims is the largest TV crash ever filmed in the UK.