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    Psychic Challenge remade for Lifetime

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    US cable network Lifetime has commissioned a full series of America's Psychic Challenge, based on the UK format from Town House TV.

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    Wildlife series for Cineflix and Tigress

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    Cineflix and Tigress Productions have been commissioned to produce a major new wildlife series for a trio of broadcasters.

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    Objective picks up trio of commissions

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    Objective Productions has marked its acquisition by super-indie All3Media by securing three commissions from BBC1 and digital channel E4.

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    Touch to expose kindergarten competition

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    Discovery-owned US cable network TLC has commissioned UK indie Touch Productions to document parents' efforts to get their children into their preferred kindergartens in New York.

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    ITV drama

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    ITV has laboured with a reputation for dreary or out-of-date drama for several years - but now the network is pinning the genre's revival to the broadcaster's expected return to form.

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    Goldenballs extended

    2007-08-23T08:00:00Z

    ITV1 has thrown its weight behind daytime gameshow Goldenballs, ordering 60 x 60-minute new episodes from Endemol subsidiary Initial.

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    BBC3 returns to My Penis

    2007-08-22T11:30:00Z

    Firecracker Films has made a new documentary for BBC3's Body Imageseason that asks why men don't talk about their genitals. [ALL]

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    Wallace and Gromit relaunch website

    2007-08-22T09:40:00Z

    Aardman Animations has made free video clips of Wallace and Gromitavailable on the popular characters' relaunched website. [ALL]

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    C4 to hand over Dispatches footage

    2007-08-21T14:40:00Z

    The Old Bailey has ordered Channel 4 to hand over unbroadcast material filmed for the Dispatchesdocumentary Britain Under Attackto the Metropolitan Police. [ALL]

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    Blog: Thatcher edit sets dangerous precedent

    2007-08-21T08:00:00Z

    The removal of a swear word from the screenplay of a docu-drama about Margaret Thatcher will be greeted with dismay by screenwriters looking to real life for inspiration, argues Robin Parker. [ALL]

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    Aardman to make Jamie Oliver cartoon

    2007-08-20T14:20:00Z

    Aardman Animations will create an animated Jamie Oliver as part of a new series being made in partnership with the chef's indie, Fresh One Productions.

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    F-word dropped from Thatcher film

    2007-08-20T10:30:00Z

    The BBC has removed a swear word from a new television docudrama about the young Margaret Thatcher in a bid to avoid offending the former prime minister. [ALL]

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    Tories defend C4 in Dispatches mosque row

    2007-08-17T11:15:00Z

    The Conservative party has said that the West Midlands Police's inquiry into the Channel 4 Dispatchesdocumentary, Undercover Mosque,raises serious questions about media freedom. [ALL]

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    BBC axes Inspector Lynley

    2007-08-17T08:00:00Z

    The BBC has axed detective series The Inspector Lynley Mysteriesafter six years, a decision greeted with bafflement by its star Nathaniel Parker. [ALL]

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    Living hungry for Yo-Yo Diets

    2007-08-16T08:30:00Z

    Living has built on the success of its Extremestrand by ordering the 60-minute Extreme: Celebrity Yo-Yo Diets.

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    Springer to host Sky One gameshow

    2007-08-16T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has lined up Jerry Springer to host new gameshow Nothing But the Truthand is bringing Noel Edmonds back to host an old Christmas favourite.

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    New order for BBC3's Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

    2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

    BBC3 has commissioned a second series of Kill It, Cook It, Eat It, this time following the meat production process from younger animals.

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    Super swap for major C4 series

    2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

    Size-zero health freaks and overweight junk-food fans are to experience each other's lifestyles in a major series from Endemol-owned indie Cheetah Television for Channel 4.

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    Inferno 999

    2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

    Founder of V Good Films Victoria Powell explains how obs-doc Inferno 999 broke new ground.

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    Firefly turns to addiction

    2007-08-16T08:00:00Z

    Indie Firefly is to take a scientific look at drug abuse for Channel 4. Britain's Deadliest Addictionswill follow three addicts, including an alcoholic, as they undergo treatment at a leading clinic.