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NewsCommissioner's Q&A - Liam Humphreys
Channel 4's commissioning editor, features has£140,000 per hour to spend on mischievous ideas for popular factual docs and he wants to know what indies think C4 is missing.
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UKTV comes home to Colin & Justin
UKTV Style will follow designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan as they go on a UK tour showing viewers how to make the most of their home. Starting in September, Colin & Justin's Home Showis a 10 x 60-minute magazine series that will form part ...
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Tiscali produces content for Scamp channel
Tiscali, the ISP which bought on-demand platform Homechoice in August 2006, has produced the first piece of original content for its new educational zone aimed at pre-school children which launches next month.
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NewsFive slams TV cancer claim
Five director of children's programmes, Nick Wilson, has rubbished a psychologist's claims that children under three should be banned from watching TV because it is linked to cancer, autism and Alzheimer's disease.
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Tomlinson film marks One Life birthday
BBC1 will mark the 50th broadcast of its documentary strand One Lifewith a film on the dark years of actor Ricky Tomlinson's life.
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Little Bird to tell tales of a Punjabi princess
Indie Little Bird has won two new commissions with a strong Asian flavour, including a major new live action children's drama series for Five.
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ID scores deals for Betty's Freaky Eaters
ID Distribution has secured a hat trick of international deals for Betty TV's new BBC3 series Freaky Eaters.
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NewsRecriminations begin over Richard & Judy
A row has broken out over who is to blame for the alleged misuse of premium rate phone lines on Channel 4's Richard and Judy Showbetween producer Cactus TV and Eckoh, which runs the show's phone service.
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BBC nets huge response from The Verdict
The BBC has had one of its biggest ever online responses to its courtroom reality series The Verdictdespite lukewarm ratings and a harsh response from critics.
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Hit poaches Copley to head Hot Animation
Hit Entertainment has hired Andi Copley as the new managing director of its animation studio Hot Animation.
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Lion gets to Entertain You again
Lion Television's BBC2 daytime variety show Let Me Entertain Youhas been commissioned for a second series.
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Corrie Confidential helps ITV's afternoon revival
Last week was half-term for many schools. If you spent it at home with the kids, did you check out ITV1's new afternoon shows? They're not kids programmes exactly, I'm talking about Coronation Street Confidentialwhich aired every day last week at 3pm and ...
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Dai4Films hunts new comics for BBC Wales
Dai4Films is to film untapped comic talent in clubs across Wales in Funny Business, a new four-parter for BBC Wales.
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C4 deals out poker foursome
Channel 4 is to cash in on the UK's poker boom with a deck of programmes dedicated to the game later this year.
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NewsBBC3 reporter sets off to find eternal youth
The woman who went on a 30-day drinking binge to demonstrate the effects of alcohol abuse will be the subject of a new BBC3 series exploring how far people are prepared to go in pursuit of eternal youth.
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Ladette to Lady gets third outing on ITV1
RDF has been commissioned to make a third series of Ladette to Lady, the ITV1 series which attempts to transform some of Britain's most unrepentant ladettes into perfect ladies.
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NewsDesperate Housewives to run until 2011
US studio ABC has signed up Desperate Housewivescreator Mark Cherry for a further four years. The eight-figure deal will secure the future of the hit US show until 2011.
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NewsSky One pulls Sport Uncovered
Sky One has pulled Sport Uncoveredfrom its Tuesday night schedule after the first episode of the series only attracted 60,000 viewers - less than a third of Sky One's slot average for Tuesdays at 10pm last year.
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C4I lines up drama offer for MipTV
A BBC1 drama-documentary from Touching the Voidproducer Darlow Smithson and the first TV comedy from Trainspottingauthor Irvine Welsh are among the highlights of Channel 4 International's programme at MipTV.
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NewsBad year for BBC at RTS Journalism Awards
The BBC picked up just three gongs out of a possible 16 at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2005/2006 last night.