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Crane to retrace Britannia quest
Geography expert Nick Crane is to follow his Bafta-winning Great British Journeys with an epic 2,500-mile odyssey across Britain and Ireland for BBC2.
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NewsReal Crime back on ITV1 with Austin
ITV1 is reviving its Real Crime strand after a three-year gap and will feature ITV News anchor Mark Austin as its first ever presenter.
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NewsSeptember gets Lali access for C4
September Films has secured worldwide exclusive access to the Indian baby born with a rare deformity who became a global news story earlier this month.
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NewsBoorman travels By Any Means
Charley Boorman is to set off on another adventure for the BBC but without usual travelling companion Ewan McGregor.
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Strangler doc for History
Hanrahan Media is making a History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network special on the Suffolk Strangler, after launching a new unit for low-cost docs.
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C4 follows wine buff
Channel 4 is planning a series about an English wine buff on a mission to produce his own “biodynamic” wine in just 18 months.
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CBBC to put kids to the test in game show
CBBC is to put children through a series of mental and physical challenges in a new gameshow.
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FeaturesEureka!: The story behind an idea
Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller explains why his detective show is all about intimacy.
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NewsCelebs add to charity coffers in Attic spin-off
John McCririck, Brian Conley and Michael Winner will sell off their unwanted possessions in a celebrity spin-off of long-running BBC daytime show Cash in the Attic.
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NewsITV4 lines up McNab for ‘macho' schedule
ITV4 has enlisted the services of Andy McNab, Vinnie Jones and Ashes to Ashes' Gene Hunt, Philip Glenister, to inject some testosterone to its schedule.
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NewsTigress tackles big bang for the Science Channel
A new documentary offering a radical new take on the big bang theory is being made by Tigress Productions for Discovery's Science Channel in the US.
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NewsPeaches to front Fiver show
Socialite Peaches Geldof and model Daisy Lowe have been lined up by Fiver to present its coverage of Glamour's Best Dressed List 2008.
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NewsBrooker writes E4 zombie series
Screenwipe presenter and Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker has penned E4's first horror series.
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NewsBen Hur gets£15m remake
MIPTV: London and LA-based drama distributor Alchemy Television is going into production on its first original mini-series, a£15m adaptation of the Biblical epic Ben Hur.
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NewsRoberts makes epic Journey for BBC2
Coast presenter Dr Alice Roberts has landed another major BBC2 documentary series, this time tracing the five epic routes our earliest ancestors took across the world.
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BBC funds black comic's comedy doc
The BBC comedy department is funding development for a comedy vehicle following the adventures of black London comedian Rudi Lickwood.
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NewsUS shows and docs for Fiver launch
Five has unveiled a fresh slate of acquired and original shows for the new schedule of Fiver, the new name for digital channel Five Life that will come into being on 28 April.
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FeaturesEureka!: In search of the perfect partner
David Renwick's marriage inspired Love Soup, but he had to write himself out of series two.
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BBC reorders comedy trio
BBC comedy controller Lucy Lumsden has ordered a trio of comedy recommissions, including a second 6 x 30-minute series of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's sketch show, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, from Tiger Aspect.
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Roar recommissioned
Endemol UK's factual entertainment arm Cheetah Television is to make two more series of CBBC wildlife series Roar.