All Commissioning articles – Page 559
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NewsC4 website to find best food shops
Channel 4 is to build on its Big Food Fight season with a website that aims to become a people's guide to the UK's favourite food shops and restaurants.
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NewsC4 follows families in gap year travel
Channel 4 is to follow four families who give up their domestic lifestyle to embark on life-changing journeys in a new format from the makers of Brat Camp.
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NewsFive calls in sexperts for new series
Dawn Airey claimed six years ago that Five was not “only about films, fucking and football”. Now, Talkback Thames is making a guide to improving the nation's sex life for the broadcaster.
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Pupils turn teachers for CBBC quiz
CBBC will challenge pupils to teach their teachers in a 20 x 60-minute gameshow that turns the traditional school relationship on its head.
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NewsBBC1 plans high-tech look at human body
BBC1 is planning a landmark series about the human body, harnessing the new technologies that have been developed since Robert Winston fronted its last in-depth look, The Human Body, in 1998.
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Big Cats back on BBC1
BBC1 is returning to Africa for Big Cat Live, an updated version of its nature series Big Cat Diary, which is due to air in the autumn.
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R4's Genius heads for BBC2
BBC2 has ordered a full run of a TV version of Dave Gorman's Radio 4 show Genius following a pilot last year.
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NatGeo orders simian soap
National Geographic Channels International has ordered Bristol-based factual indie Icon Films to make a 5 x 60-minute animal docu-soap about wild vervet monkeys adapting to life in the suburbs of Durban.
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BBC2 to air fight over wind farm
BBC2 will chart the construction of a controversial wind farm in Devon and its impact upon the local community in a three-part documentary series.
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NewsSky One joins border patrols for new doc
Sky One will take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at immigration into the UK in an eight-part observational-documentary series.
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NewsGuitar heroes to appear in Imagine three-parter
Rock stars Pete Townsend, Johnny Marr and Iggy Pop will wax lyrical about their love of guitars in a three-part special edition of BBC1 arts strand Imagine.
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Century to film Aboriginal ‘musical doc'
Century Films' “documentary musical” format, which includes the likes of Feltham Sings and Songbirds, has won a commission from Australian broadcaster SBS to tackle Aboriginal rights.
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NewsFive opens door to property shows
Five has made property the primary focus for a string of new lifestyle shows.
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NewsLumley and Hislop hit the road for BBC docs
Takeaway Media has lined up Joanna Lumley and Ian Hislop to present factual shows for the BBC.
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NewsFive opens door to property shows
Five has made property the primary focus for a string of new lifestyle shows.
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NewsSuperstars returns on Five
Five is to revive classic sporting competition Superstars with a host of Olympic medallists already signed up.
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NewsFive to bring back Superstars
Five is to resurrect iconic sporting show Superstars for a new series with Olympic medallists as captains and is due to roll it out this summer.
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NewsBBC unveils new Imagine series
BBC1 arts strand Imagine has lined up profiles of Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Nobel Prize novelist Doris Lessing and film director Werner Herzog for its latest run.
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NewsGMG Radio delves into£1m commissions fund
GMG Radio has ordered UBC Media to make four series in the first wave of commissions from its£1m production fund.