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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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NewsBBC1 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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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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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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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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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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America 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.