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NewsAmerica gets Piers
America's Got Talent, the new talent show on which former Mirroreditor Piers Morgan is appearing as a judge, debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC last week. Made by Simon Cowell's indie, Syco, and Fremantle Media, it was the most watched ...
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On the box: Coogan scores again
Five years ago a new Steve Coogan character-based comedy would have been given the usual overhyped trumpet blast that always backfires. Having handed the baton of 'comedy media darling' to Ricky Gervais and Little Britain, Saxondaleslipped out with little ...
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20th Century Fox to make Hustle movie
Kudos Film & Television drama Hustleis set to move to the big screen after US studio 20th Century Fox picked up the film rights to the BBC1 series. Fox 2000, which has previously produced hit movies such as Fight Cluband ...
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BBC2/4 orders George Clinton doc
Indie Somethin' Else has won a commission from BBC2 and BBC4 to make an hour-long documentary about the 50-year career of R&B star George Clinton. The Clones of Dr Funkenstein - The Story of George Clinton will include new interviews with Clinton, along with other ...
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C4 to list 100 greatest stand-ups
Channel 4 has commissioned three list shows from Visual Voodoo. The four-part The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, greenlit by commissioning editor Andrew MacKenzie, will allow the public to vote for the greatest stand-ups. Meanwhile, C4's Shane Allen has ordered The 50 ...
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BBC1 comes to aid of rural singletons
BBC1 is to play matchmaker for a group of rural singletons, throwing together 16 people from opposite ends of the country and watching the sparks fly for a primetime observational documentary.
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NewsStephen Fry returns to ITV in legal drama
Stephen Fry is to make his first drama series for ITV in over 10 years, with a show about a country solicitor with the human touch.
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ITV set to bring back drama to daytime
ITV is to bring back drama into its daytime schedules in a bid to tap into the success that the BBC has had with shows such as Doctors.
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Uefa Cup final stages to air on ITV
ITV has bought the UK broadcast rights to the final stages of the Uefa Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth more than£20m. ITV now has exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals over the next three seasons of the tournament, after fighting ...
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NewsBBC to set Casualty in 1906
The BBC is to make a medical drama set 100 years ago, but filmed in the fast-paced style of modern shows such as Casualty.
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NewsITV to bring Gervais' Flanimals to TV
ITV is to bring to life Ricky Gervais' best selling book Flanimalsfor a new series which will be narrated and written by the comic.
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Format focus: Master of Champions
Major US network ABC has given a new lease of life to a extreme Japanese talent format
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NewsITV scores UEFA Cup rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the UEFA Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth over£20m.
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NewsBBC's website proves to be World Cup favourite
World Cup coverage on the BBC's website has seen it take a 58% share of traffic to sports and gambling websites during the tournament, according to figures from internet research group Nielsen/NetRatings.
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NewsBBC & ITV divvy up World Cup quarter-final matches
ITV and the BBC have agreed the split of games for the quarter finals of the World Cup, excluding the England match which had already been bagged by BBC1 in a prior arrangement.
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NewsBBC goes behind bars with prison special
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of Britain's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha.
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Electric Sky tops up for Sunnyside
Brighton-based distributor Electric Sky has bagged a number of new factual titles in time for this week's Sunnyside of the Doc programme market in La Rochelle.
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NewsMobile deal for Baby Cow world cup song
A teaser of Baby Cow's new animation Fulking Hillwill appear on mobiles ahead of a TV commission, following a deal brokered with Phones International Group by Target Entertainment.
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NewsGranada America to make paranormal show for Discovery
Granada America has picked up a commission from Discovery Channel in the US for a new paranormal reality series which attempts to solve murder cases with the help of psychic sleuths.
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NewsBBC Buckingham Palace joke backfires
The BBC received over 100 complaints last night following a spoof newsflash which claimed a 'major incident' had occurred at Buckingham Palace.