All Commissioning articles – Page 598

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    Take It or Leave It

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Gameshow network Challenge has commissioned IMG Media-owned producer TWI to make a second series of gameshow Take It or Leave It.

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    Dragon's Jones to front Tycoon show for ITV

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Dragons' Den judge Peter Jones is to become ITV1's version of Alan Sugar next summer as the face of primetime business series The Tycoon.

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    Stein to present Daphne Du Maurier doc

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Indie Denham Productions is making a 60-minute film for BBC2 focusing on writer Daphne du Maurier's relationship with Cornwall.

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    Crime and Investigation Network recounts West victim story

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Manchester-based indie Multi Media Arts has won a commission from the Crime and Investigation Network to make a documentary on a woman who survived a sexual assault by serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.

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    Comment - The conflict must stop

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    C4's Kevin Sutcliffe examines the impact of scheduling Panoramaagainst Dispatches

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    Cicada exposes wildlife crimes

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Cicada Films has gone undercover to reveal the world's worst wildlife crimes in a major six-part series for Animal Planet.

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    Celebs go to hospital for Five reality series

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Granada Factual London has been commissioned to make So You Think You Can Nursefor the channel.

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    On the box - Walks on the wild side

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Nick Curwin was impressed by the good intentions of the youngsters going on Mission Africabut found Ray Mears' Wild Foodrather harder to swallow.

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    Neville the Blue Bear given BBC series

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    BBC children’s puppet Neville the Blue Bear will follow in the footsteps of Gordon the Gopher and Basil Brush after being handed his own spin-off show.

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    Commissioner's Q&A: Barbara Gibbon

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    The head of Sky Travel mostly gets pitched travelogue ideas - even though the channel doesn't run travelogues. What she does want is observational docs to match the success of the Airline brand.

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    Pirates capture peaktime Boxing Day audience

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Before you tuck into the festive season figures, can I point out that this year - 2007 - will be the final full year of analogue television broadcasting in Britain. In the second half of next year the analogue network will begin to close down, starting with the Border region, ...

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    AOL orders Paparazzi show for broadband

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    AOL has taken the next step to becoming a regular UK content commissioner by giving the greenlight to a weekly broadband show made by TwoFour.

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    Optomen TV show to help ailing shops

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Retail guru Mary Portas will use her expertise to revitalise flagging independent fashion shops for a major new series on BBC2.

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    BBC1 daytime orders Leopard drama

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    Indie Leopard Drama is to make a one-off, 45-minute drama based on a novella by ex-SAS author Andy McNab for BBC1. The Grey Man, a light-hearted story about a man who is inspired by heist films to rob the bank where he works, will air ...

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    Green Bay to make kids films for BBC1

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    BBC1 has commissioned Cardiff indie Green Bay Media to make a 4 x 30-minute series called Through Children's Eyes, which is based on a one-off show it made for the BBC in 2006.

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    Radio 1 orders two doc/debate hybrids

    2007-01-04T08:00:00Z

    All Out Productions has secured two commissions from Radio 1 that combine short documentaries with a live debate. Fighting the Power, about the influence of hip-hop legends Public Enemy, and Universally Educated, about the increasing number of students attending university, are 20-minute documentaries that have ...

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    Disney shows available on Orange

    2007-01-03T17:30:00Z

    Disney Channel and mobile network Orange have signed a deal allowing customers with 3G handsets to watch Disney shows such as Kim Possible,for the first time in the UK.

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    US network buys Bad Girls for gay appeal

    2007-01-03T17:30:00Z

    Shed Productions' long-running prison drama Bad Girlshas been acquired by gay US cable network, Logo.

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    C4 signs PSP podcast deal

    2007-01-03T10:10:00Z

    Channel 4 is to deliver Celebrity Big Brotherpodcasts and radio content to listeners on the move via the handheld Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) console.

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    ITV makes Mowlam doc

    2007-01-02T10:50:00Z

    ITV Productions is making a C4 drama based on the life of the former Northern Ireland secretary.