All Commissioning articles – Page 608
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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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NewsElectric 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.
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NewsFuturama to make TV comeback
Cult Channel 4 animated comedy Futurama is to be brought back from the dead, three years after the series from TheSimpsonscreator Matt Groening was axed.
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NewsPiers Morgan makes strong US debut
Piers Morgan is on track to repeat the American success of Simon Cowell, as the new talent show he judges on debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC.
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Talkback takes on troublesome teens
Five has commissioned Talkback Thames to follow up its factual series Families Behaving Badlywith a series called The Teen Tamer. The 6 x 60-minute series will see teen behaviour expert Lorrine Marer tackle unruly youngsters whose problems include truancy, bullying, ...
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Swan song for TOTP
The BBC has brought the final curtain down on Top of the Pops, the world's longest-running weekly music show, after 42 years on the air. The show underwent a relaunch in November 2003, but that did not stop a decline in viewer numbers, which had ...
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Wall Street meets The Office for Storyville
The BBC's Storyvillestrand has co-funded its first series, a documentary billed as a cross between Wall Streetand The Office.
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Commissioner's Q & A :Jonathan Webb
The director of programming of lads channel Bravo is looking for returnable series, especially on domestic crime, and is looking at a number of co-productions
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New channel makes gun crime shorts
The soon-to-launch Crime & Investigation Network is making a series of two-minute shorts to highlight the impact of gun crime in Leeds . Set to coincide with the channel's launch on 10 July, between 10 and 15 interstitials are being made in partnership with the Royal Armouries in Leeds . ...
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Cash boost for ITN
ITN chief executive Mark Wood has confirmed that an additional£1m is to be ploughed into the company by shareholders in a bid to accelerate the growth of its archive and its mobile TV business. This latest cash investment, which follows on from a£2m boost last year, came as the company ...
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Format Focus: Black White
A controversial US reality format challenging racial stereotypes is likely to be made in the UK
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On the box - A classy alternative to BB
The Convent , in which women are cooped up under the control of an all-seeing being, could be seen as an upmarket version of Big Brother, says Piers Vellacott
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It is all over now
The BBC has axed comedy panel show They Think It's All Overafter 11 years. Made by Talkback Thames the show has run for 20 series, but BBC1 controller Peter Fincham said it has reached its 'natural conclusion' and would not be returning in this year's ...
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Wright and Marsh appeal to adults on Five
Dan Wright and Steve Marsh, the presenters of Big Cook, Little Cook, are to venture into the world of adult programmes, hosting a broadcast pilot for Five. Viral Visionis a programme dedicated to homemade short films and 'viral advertising' - ...
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Caledonia TV wins Five order about Orkney kids
Caledonia TV has been commissioned to make a documentary series about a group of children from the Orkney Islands who are forced to leave their homes to go to school on the mainland.
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Liddle to look at the Bible for C4
Former Todayeditor Rod Liddle is to front a Channel 4 religious special investigating how the Bible first came to be translated into English - one of two feature-length documentaries greenlit by the broadcaster.