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NewsSpun Gold handles new C4 doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a documentary following compulsive masturbators as they try different ways to kick their habit.
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NewsHeidi Thomas pens 1920s drama for BBC1
Heidi Thomas, the screenwriter behind I Capture The Castleand Madam Bovary, has penned an eight-part drama for BBC1 set in 1920s Liverpool.
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NewsReeves and Vegas sign up for O'Briain grilling
Vic Reeves, Johnny Vegas and Ruby Wax have been confirmed as guests on Dara O'Briain's new BBC2 chat show.
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NewsBBC2 to aim for 'broad appeal'
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has said he is leaving the targeting of 16 to 24-year-old viewers to BBC3, focusing instead on 'broad appeal' for the channel's autumn launch.
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NewsCrime channel orders surveillance series
Crime & Investigation Network (CI), which launched on 10 July, and ITV London have commissioned Flame TV to make a 6 x 30-minute series looking at the ways the public is monitored.
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Sky One pushes science to breaking point with Crash Test
Sky One has ordered a Brainiac-style series that will test how far objects, machines and vehicles can be pushed before cracking, exploding or flying off the track.
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NewsRantzen to expose scams in BBC show
Consumer champions Esther Rantzen and Lynn Faulds Wood are to be brought together in a new consumer action series ordered by BBC features and factual entertainment commissioner Elaine Bedell.
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NewsFive gets on talent show bandwagon
Five is to launch a celebrity talent contest fronted by former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass with Julian Clary and Andi Peters lined up as judges.
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Taylor revisits Al-Qaeda for terror anniversary
Veteran reporter Peter Taylor is to make a new series of programmes on Al-Qaeda, timed for broadcast on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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BBC plans African eco build
The BBC is to build an eco lodge in Africa from scratch as part of a major new BBC1 primetime series being described as one of the corporation's most important projects of 2007.
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Second outing for BBC4's Modernism
BBC4 series Living with Modernismhas been commissioned for a second run.
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R4 books post-watershed Chatterley
Radio indie Catherine Bailey Productions has been commissioned to adapt DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfor BBC Radio 4.
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C4 docu-drama to tell the story of Waco siege
Darlow Smithson will attempt to uncover what really happened during the infamous Waco siege in a big-budget feature for Channel 4 and the US Discovery Channel, its first commission since being acquired by IMG Media.
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Destiny's Child join C4 talent show
Channel 4 has signed up Mathew Knowles - the father of Beyoncé - and the members of Destiny's Child to feature in talent series Chancers.
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C4 books Church for Friday nights
Charlotte Church is to become the new face of Friday night entertainment on Channel 4.
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NewsC4 hopes Freshly Squeezed will wake up breakfast slot
Channel 4 has commissioned its first long-running breakfast entertainment show since the demise of Risein 2003.
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NewsITV set to chop 30 minutes from lunchtime news
ITV is set to cut 30 minutes from ITV1's one-hour lunchtime news show as part of its bid to stem the channel's ratings decline.
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C4 gets on bike for 3 Minute doc slot
Channel 4 has commissioned four new short films for its 3 Minute Wonderslot in a competition run by the broadcaster together with ITN Source and the Brit Doc Festival.
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BBC2 discovers nature in major daytime series
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham is to present a major daytime series for BBC2 about the best locations to capture the beauty of British nature, with 10 shows being dedicated to each of the seasons.
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BBC2 adds variety
BBC2 is reviving the variety show in a daytime series to be hosted by Brian Conley. Let Me Entertain You, being made by Lion Television, sees the studio audience vote on performers, with the winners from each show going through to a grand finale. The ...