All Commissioning articles – Page 593
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NewsCommissioner's Q&A - Ralph Lee
Channel 4's commissioning editor, history has up to£180,000 an hour to spend and he's looking for big, memorable primetime series, enduring formats for weekends and adventurous new ways to present history.
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Fremantle improvises comedy for ITV
Fremantle Media is developing comedy improvisation format Thank God You're Here for ITV1.
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Five books The Little Princess sequel
Five has commissioned a second series of Illuminated Films' The Little Princess.
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NewsSave Kids TV bids for a slice of PSP
Save Kids TV is in talks with Ofcom about getting a large chunk of the proposed public service publisher (PSP) fund to create a new 'golden age' of children's television.
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BBC mulls new TOTP
The BBC is considering a Top Gear-style music show as a reworked mainstream replacement for Top of the Pops.
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Bravo revisits the good, bad and ugly in football
Flextech-owned men's entertainment channel Bravo has commissioned a revamped version of its show The Football Factoriesas part of a raft of new programmes exploring alternative sides of 'the beautiful game' worldwide.
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Green Bay assumes Missionary Position
Cardiff indie Green Bay has secured a commission from BBC Wales to make a one-off documentary about Britain's first Christian sex shop.
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Portman buys Party Animals rights
Portman Film and Television has acquired the inter-national distribution rights to World Productions' Party Animals.
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R4 orders fresh Adams adaptation
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned Above the Title to make an 18 x 30-minute adaptation of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gentlybooks following the indie's successful production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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NewsC4 genealogy show to investigate British Empire
Channel 4 is getting in on the genealogy boom with Empire's Children, a new series from Who Do You Think You Are? producer Wall to Wall.
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Silver River has BBC3 Pulling power
Pulling, the dark BBC3 comedy made by Silver River Productions, has been commissioned for a second series.
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Dancing on Ice warms up ITV1's Saturday
The return of ITV1's hit entertainment format Dancing on Icedazzled the viewers as the centrepiece of a new look to ITV1's Saturday peaktime line-up.
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NewsLiving TV sends WAG on US modelling mission
LivingTV is to follow Britain's Next Top Modelstar Abbey Clancy as she attempts to crack the US market with the help of legendary supermodel Janice Dickinson.
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NewsKeith Allen to explore God TV
Actor Keith Allen is to front a controversial Channel 4 documentary focusing on the British-owned Christian broadcaster God TV.
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NewsSingh joins Celeb BB review
Channel 4 has beefed up the panel charged with conducting a review into Celebrity Big Brotherafter adding legal heavyweight Rabinder Singh QC to the three-strong team.
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NewsBlog: Why Duncan and Johnson should 'stay the course' on BB
Broadcastsenior reporter Dan Wootton extols the virtues of the Channel 4 chiefs and laughs off suggestions that they should be 'voted out' of Horseferry Road.
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NewsBBC shows could appear on YouTube
The BBC is in talks with Google about making some of its programming available on online video site YouTube.
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NewsChoppy waters for C4 as 200 complain about Shipwrecked
Channel 4 has found itself defending another reality show after almost 200 people complained about a contestant on Shipwreckedwho labelled black people 'really bad'.
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NewsTarget strikes Natpe deals
Independent producer and distributor Target Entertainment has returned from Natpe with a string of sales secured across the US and Latin America, including a raft of deals with BBC America.
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NewsNBC orders comedy format from Fremantle
US network NBC has ordered 6 x 60-minute episodes of FremantleMedia North America's new improvisational comedy series Thank God You're Here.