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Composer leads Five’s new year
An epic biography of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams from prolific music film director Tony Palmer will form the centrepiece of Five’s New Year’s Day programming.
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NewsLiving to air unseen Spice films
Living is to celebrate the re-forming of the Spice Girls with a one-off special on the birth of “girl power” featuring unseen early footage.
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NewsITV1 marks 50 years of Queen’s Xmas speech
ITV1 has secured exclusive access to the entire archive of the Queen’s televised Christmas messages for a documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of the first TV broadcast.
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NewsDispatches editor commits to indie investigations
Kevin Sutcliffe has pledged his support to indies producing hard-hitting docs for Dispatches after Ofcom cleared Channel 4 over complaints about its Undercover Mosque film.
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NewsBrand taking the mic for C4
Russell Brand is to compere a one-off Saturday Night Live-style comedy show for Channel 4.
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FeaturesMaking sense of classics
A glut of recent period dramas suggests that commissioners believe that they are perennially popular, but what does it take to make a classic appeal to a modern audience?
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NewsC4 tucks into food season
Channel 4 is lining up specials featuring celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as part of its two-week food season in January.
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NewsBBC2 orders war comedy
A comedy about “a small African war” as seen through the eyes of journalists will be aired by BBC2, as part of its winter/spring 2008 schedule.
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NewsWar comedy tops new BBC2 season
A comedy about 'a small African war' as seen through the eyes of journalists will air as part of BBC2's winter/spring 2008 schedule.
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NewsWar comedy tops new BBC2 season
A comedy about 'a small African war' as seen through the eyes of journalists will be aired by BBC2, as part of its winter/spring 2008 schedule.
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News'War comedy' tops new BBC2 season
A comedy about 'a small African war' as seen through the eyes of journalists will be aired by BBC2, as part of its winter/spring 2008 schedule.
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NewsBBC2 unveils White season
BBC2 is to focus on white working class Britain in a season of “unflinching” programmes looking at why some sections of that community “feel increasingly marginalised”.
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NewsBBC2 to tackle white working class
BBC2 will focus on white working class Britain this autumn/winter, with a raft of “unflinching” programmes looking at why some sections of that community “feel increasingly marginalised”.
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NewsC4 orders peace activist death drama
Channel 4 is lining up a feature-length drama about the death of British peace activist Tom Hurndall for next spring.
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NewsWould I Lie to You recommissioned
BBC1 has ordered a second series of the Zeppotron-produced comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?
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FeaturesEureka! Escape from Luanda
Film-maker Phil Grabsky used music students to explore a country in flux
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CommentThe Insider: Development hell
The tortuous e-commissioning process holds torments worthy of the devil.
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NewsBBC2’s Natural World goes on the hunt with Indian tigers
Filming a tiger catch its prey, one of natural history film-making’s toughest challenges, is to be the subject of an edition of BBC2’s Natural World.
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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.