All Commissioning articles – Page 598
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NewsC4 turns back the clock on kids
Indie Twenty Twenty is to turn back the clock in a primetime series for Channel 4 that will give spoilt modern-day kids a taste of the childhood their parents would have typically lived through.
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NewsSharman unveils slate of factual commissions
Alison Sharman has unveiled her first major raft of factual commissions since becoming director of factual and daytime at ITV.
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NewsWAGs to run clothes shop on TV
The queens of chav-chic and shopping, England's footballers' wives and girlfriends (WAGs), look set to compete against each other off the pitch, selling designer gear in a new series from Off the Radar productions.
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NewsVicar of Dibley hangs up cassock
Long-running BBC1 sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, starring Dawn French, is being brought to its conclusion after 12 years, with a two-part Christmas special.
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Celebrities roadtest diets for BBC2 show
Vic Reeves, Liza Tarbuck and Colin Jackson have signed up for a BBC2 programme which aims to test whether what you eat can really affect who you are.
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NewsCTVC hires head of production and wins 7/7 commission
CTVC has appointed Glynis Robertson as its new head of production as the indie builds on its success with Channel 4's Opus Dei and the Da Vinci Codeand the 9/11 documentary for ITV, Victim 0001.
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NewsITV to give celebs 24-hour grilling
ITV is to give celebrities the grilling of their lives in a pilot chat show that will see presenter Jamie Campbell interview stars non-stop for 24-hours.
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Southern Star to distribute Sky's Kylie interview
Australia's Southern Star International has been appointed as the international distributor of The Kylie Interview, which is set to air on Sky One on Sunday July 16 and on the Nine Network Australia on Monday July 17.
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NewsDiscovery US orders seconds of FutureWeapons
Discovery US has ordered a double helping of modern-day warfare series FutureWeaponsfrom Northern Ireland indie Waddell Media.
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Nick Knowles in jail
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of the UK's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha. Behind Bars, which is produced by CityHospitalmaker Topical Television, ...
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ITV wins Uefa rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the Uefa Cup in a deal understood to be worth over£20m. Covering the 2006-7 to 2008-9 seasons, the agreement will give ITV exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of the tournament. ITV, which fought off ...
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Setanta wrestles PGA Tour golf from Sky
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from this January and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel. The Irish sports group, which recently picked up two live Premier League rights packages, has brokered a six-year deal to air the PGA Tour competition in ...
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UKTV Food searches for local food heroes
UKTV Food is launching a search for Britain's Local Food Hero 2006 with the help of celebrity chef Gary Rhodes and former politician Edwina Currie.
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Five swaps state and public school students
Five has greenlit a observational documentary series from Granada Factual which follows three pupils from a public school and three from an inner-city comprehensive as they complete a two week exchange.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Chiara Cipriani
The director of television at The Poker Channel does a lot with very little and is looking for indies that can think commercially as well as creatively and drive more mainstream awareness
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Eastern Europe snaps up BBC dramas
BBC Worldwide has licensed over 500 hours of programming to the major broadcasters in eastern Europe, following Discop, the area's largest market for content buyers.
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BBC shows for Folio
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been re-commissioned to make new series for peaktime BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in over 5 million viewers, has ...
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Production base for Turner in UK
Turner Broadcasting is to set up a London-based development unit to develop original animated comedy outside the US for the Cartoon Network.
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Back to Futurama
Cult animated comedy Futuramais to be brought back three years after being axed for poor ratings. US cable network Comedy Central is to revive the Matt Groening show, which follows a pizza delivery boy who wakes up to discover he is living in the year ...
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Waddell Media looks at angry sports stars
Northern Ireland indie Waddell Media is making a two-hour special, when Sports Stars See Red, looking at 'red card moments' when sports stars have snapped with rage.