All Commissioning articles – Page 550
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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.
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News'Lord of the Flies' format crowns C4 autumn season
Two groups of children will spend three weeks without adults in a factual entertainment format for Channel 4.
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NewsMore 4 to follow race for the US presidency
More 4 is to mark November's US elections with a series of programmes including full broadcasts of every presidential debate.
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NewsFive to air unseen Peter Cook and Enoch Powell interviews
Never-before-seen interviews with Peter Cook, Robert Maxwell, Sean Connery and Enoch Powell are to be aired for the first time in 40 years as part of a new series for Five.
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NewsFive boosts factual for autumn season
Five will open the doors to the Bank of England, Lloyd's of London and the Treasury as part of its autumn season.
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Report: Execs' trust in TV is lower than viewers'
New research from Deloitte has warned the industry is in danger of talking itself into a crisis over trust in TV issues.
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NewsE4's Brooker thriller is set in Big Brother house
Charlie Brooker's E4 zombie thriller Dead Set will be set in the Big Brother house.
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NewsITV1 orders ‘Las Vegas-style' daytime show
Bradley Walsh will preside over a giant Las Vegas-style slot machine in an afternoon quiz show that will be stripped across ITV1 weekdays.
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NewsBBC2 Switch orders ‘Baywatch boot camp'
The BBC is to subject eight British adolescents to “Baywatch boot camp”, in a new 8 x 30-minute ob-doc series that aims to turn teens into US lifeguards.
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Sky One charts addict's last days
Sky One is to follow the last three months of a heroin addict's battle with an ultimately fatal addiction.
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Christie goes behind bars in Virgin series
Linford Christie and Joe Pasquale will tough it out in the world's most merciless prisons in a new factual entertainment series for Virgin 1.
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FeaturesEureka!: Stacked (Brocken Spectre for Channel 4)
4Talent Pilot winner Bryony Ive on seeing her first drama commission come to life.
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NewsBBC1 obstacle course to Wipeout contestants
BBC1 will challenge contestants to tackle the world's biggest obstacle course in a UK version of global Endemol hit Wipeout.
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NewsC4 doc looks at ‘The Charles Generation'
Men born on the same day as Prince Charles will tell their stories in a Sue Bourne documentary that forms part of Channel 4's autumn schedule.
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NewsBBC plots 39 Steps remake
The BBC is to revive John Buchan's classic espionage thriller The 39 Steps in a one-off dramatisation to be made in Scotland.
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NewsMale Supernanny spin-off greenlit
Ricochet is making a male spin-off of Supernanny for US network ABC.
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NewsCurrie and Waterman to front regional BBC1 docs
Edwina Currie and Pete Waterman are to explore the effects of the closure of many of Britain's rural railways in the 1960s in a series of regional programmes for BBC1.