All Commissioning articles – Page 594
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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.
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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.