All Commissioning articles – Page 563
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NewsCompany to make BBC1 criminal comedy series
Anthony Head and Warren Clarke will play two old-time crooks leaving Spain to move to a sleepy Devon fishing village in a comedy drama series for BBC1.
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FeaturesMaking a fashion statement
UKTV Style found a young and wealthy audience with its line-up of makeover programmes. Now it wants more channel-defining hits like The Clothes Show revival.
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NewsShaps hails new era in ITV drama
ITV director of television Simon Shaps has announced a new era in the broadcaster’s relationship with drama producers as it continues its drive to modernise its output in the genre.
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NewsGecko wins two orders for hard-hitting docs
Gecko Productions is to produce a doc about homeless ex-services personnel for BBC1.
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NewsBBC3 comedy gets US greenlight
Comedy indie Brown Eyed Boy has secured an order for a full series of BBC3 pilot How Not to Live Your Life and has been given the greenlight to produce a US pilot of the show.
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NewsFilm-maker Treays to make C4 ‘love’ trilogy
Channel 4 has commissioned a trilogy of films from documentary film-maker Jane Treays investigating the themes of love, sex and marriage.
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NewsC4 orders doc about Jesus’ other lives
Documentary-maker David Batty is to follow last year’s controversial The Secret Jesus Family with a film exploring the parallels between the Christian interpretation of Jesus Christ and major figures in other religions.
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NewsGold reunites Eric and Ernie
UKTV Gold has ordered a one-off special featuring the greatest performances by Morecambe and Wise.
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NewsFive invites viewers to judge Spice Girls
Five will attempt to gauge the public’s reaction to the Spice Girls’s reunion in a one-off documentary from Twofour, The Spice Girls on Trial.
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FeaturesWhat’s up with docs?
Commissioners spent last weekend’s Sheffield Doc Festival trying to reassure film-makers that things are not as bad as they seem for the genre.
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NewsC4 orders conjoined twin doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a documentary on an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs as she undergoes an operation to remove her conjoined twin.
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NewsBBC1 updates Cinderella
BBC1’s next search-for-a-star format will uncover a Cinderella for a part in a made-for-TV musical film as part of Comic Relief 2009.
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FeaturesEureka! Free Agents
Free Agents producer Nira Park explains why C4’s new show was forged from experience
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NewsSouthern Africa channel launch
Southern Africa Direct, a new free-to-air lifestyle TV channel, is planning its first round of commissioning in the new year.
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NewsBBC Horizon explores execution
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo is to hunt for a humane method of execution in an edition of the BBC’s science strand Horizon.
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NewsC4’s First Cut airs new talent
Channel 4 is lining up films from Raw Television, Century Films, Talkback Thames, Renegade Pictures and Eleven Films for its new primetime documentary strand for up-and-coming directors.
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus: Five Sport
Five has become ever more successful since it decided to rethink its sports offering. Katy Elliott looks at the broadcaster’s new agendas.
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NewsFive’s Hidden Lives to end?
The future of Five’s successful shock doc strand Hidden Lives is uncertain, with indies believing the next series could be its last.
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NewsFive pulls plug on scripted comedy
Five will not develop or commission any more scripted comedy shows for at least the next 12 months and will instead concentrate on light entertainment and comedy panel shows.
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NewsNHU sets off on new Expeditions
BBC1 is to examine the landscapes and wildlife of Guyana and Papua New Guinea in two major new series for its Expedition strand.