All Commissioning articles – Page 551
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NewsRock giants to reveal secrets for Sky Arts
Rock stars including Phil Collins and Mick Hucknall will reveal the art and craft of songwriting and perform their best-known songs in an eight-part series for Sky Arts.
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NewsMotive lands RTE pilots
Irish indie Motive Television has won two pilot commissions from Irish broadcaster RTÉ to make its first entertainment shows.
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NewsC4 gets back to Abbey Road
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock is to perform with rising soul star Corinne Bailey Rae in the next series of Channel 4 music strand Live at Abbey Road.
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NewsLadies Detectives get full series
The BBC has partnered with HBO and The Weinstein Company to order a full series of upcoming drama The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
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NewsBBC3 to domesticate virgin cooks
BBC3 will put teens who cannot even boil an egg in charge of the family cooking, in a bid to transform them into “domestic gods and goddesses”.
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NewsITV orders religious series'
ITV Productions' restructured specialist factual and arts department, headed by Melvyn Bragg, has picked up a raft of new commissions.
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NewsC4 orders music/reality series
Whizz Kid Entertainment has been commissioned to make a new music/reality show for Channel 4, to be co-funded by the broadcaster and mobile phone company Nokia.
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NewsSecond series for Horrid Henry
Hit kids show Horrid Henry has been handed a second series by CITV.
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NewsBBC casts Victor 'Spelldrew' in Merlin
Richard Wilson is to star in a 13-part drama about King Arthur and Merlin that BBC1 is lining up for a Saturday teatime slot.
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NewsTen Alps adds to publishing portfolio
Indie Ten Alps has acquired B2B publishing company Sovereign Publications.
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NewsSecond term for School for Cooks
ITV1 has ordered a second run of RDF daytime cookery show Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks.
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NewsLuxton lays foundations with Five
Presenter Charlie Luxton has become the face of Five's property and architecture shows and will front a new series of Build a New Life in the Country for next year.
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NewsBBC3 farms out comics to live with animals
BBC3 will challenge a group of young comedians to live like animals in a new series from Love Productions.
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NewsRicochet to test UK's fittest for Five series
Five has commissioned an adventure series which will put some of the UK's fittest people through their paces across three continents.
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Original to film psychic hit squads for Living
Original Productions UK will send a Swat team of psychics to restore order in Britain's most haunted homes in a new 8 x 60-minute series for Living.
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NewsBBC2 hails British style
BBC2 will turn the spotlight on the UK fashion industry this autumn, with a 5 x 60-minute documentary series on the evolution of British style.
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Discovery wants more Bear
Discovery Channel has ordered another 13 x 60-minute series of adventure series Bear Grylls from indie Diverse.
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Omaar to front three-part Dispatches
Rageh Omaar is to explore Britain's attitudes towards immigration in a three-part Dispatches special for Channel 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's “rivers of blood” speech.
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NewsCelebs host ‘top 50' list shows series for Sky One
Sky One has commissioned five different indies to make a season of TV and celebrity-themed “top 50” list shows, each of which will be hosted by a famous face.