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Redgrave rows in
Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave, the rower who bagged six gold medals for Great Britain, is to star in a new ITV1 factual show. Made by Outline Productions, Redgrave will be charged with turning eight youngsters from inner-city Liverpool into top-class rowers. He will gather a team of expert coaches, ...
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Wright heads west
Football pundit and presenter Ian Wright is taking to the road across America in a new 10 x 60-minute series for Men and Motors. Ordered by commissioning editor Joe Talbot, Wright Across America from Thumbs Up Productions, will see Wright cross the US on a Harley-Davidson. The series, starting on ...
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Frost to front ITV London politics show
Sir David Frost has been signed up to present ITV London's new politics show, as the network revamps its regional political programming. Produced by Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions, Frost Tonight will broadcast on Thursday evenings from January, covering all the major political issues in the capital. It will ...
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Hunt orders found
BBC1 controller of daytime Jay Hunt has ordered a series from Leopard Films looking at the lives of foundlings - babies abandoned on doorsteps by their parents. Presented by Kate Adie, the 5 x 45-minute series Found will look at the effect of abandonment on their lives. Gill Waddington will ...
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Format focus: So Sudoku
ITV Production has released details of its long-awaited sudoku gameshow format.
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Tory grandee to front Five series on trees
Former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine is to present a 60-minute one-off documentary on Britain's best known trees for Five.
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Oryx takes Guinness World Recordsto Middle East
The Arab world's unlikely fascination with that most British of institutions, Guinness World Records, is set to continue in a deal in which Oryx Production and Distribution will repackage Ultimate Guinness World Records for 18 Arabic-speaking countries, including Iraq and Syria.
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NBDTV wins global rights to Quo doc
Specialist music and factual distributor NBDTV will handle international rights for the 55-minute Little Green Men documentary The Party Ain't Over Yet - 40 Years of Status Quo. The special, made to mark the band's upcoming anniversary, will provide unique access to the band in the studio, on tour and ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Paul Crompton
Commissioning editor, popular factual at Sky One is looking for more faces like Danny Wallace and Julie Burchill to front shows and for big ideas to fill the 9pm weekday slot.
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Third Best of Friends on way to CBBC
Indie Talent TV has won a third commission for its CBBC entertainment show Best of Friends. The indie is to make 20 half-hour episodes, which tasks 10-year-olds to prove how much their friends mean to them by undertaking challenges. It was developed by Jonathan Wolfman from an original idea by ...
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New south-west indie bags order
Former BBC documentaries controller Jeremy Gibson has teamed up with two former indie heads and an ex-editor of Channel 4's Big Breakfast to launch a production outfit in the south-west.
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Leopard USA to make second Cash in Attic
US channel Home and Garden TV (HGTV) has commissioned Leopard Films USA to make a second 26 x 30-minute series of Cash in the Attic. The cable channel has also commissioned new property format Hidden Potential from Leopard Films USA. The programme uses graphics and CGI to show buyers how ...
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Martha Stewart's Apprentice axed
US broadcaster NBC has axed the struggling Martha Stewart version of The Apprentice, denting the show's chances in the UK. Industry speculation had suggested that the BBC and Talkback Thames were considering producing a local female-fronted version of the reality show, to run as a companion to the Sir Alan ...
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Endemol risks it all on Space Cadets
Endemol UK - the creator of Big Brother and There's Something About Miriam - has admitted it is taking its biggest ever risk by launching a reality show which pretends to send members of the public into space. The wannabe astronauts that feature in C4's Space Cadets will believe they ...
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Village show competition to air on BBC
One of Britain's national institutions, the village show, is to be examined on BBC1 in a series described as 'Pop Idol with vegetables'. The Great British Village Show from 12 Yard Productions will be filmed next summer, with broadcast set for 2007 in a Sunday night slot. Six 40-minute regional ...
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Kickback bags C4 cartoon commission
Indie Kickback Media has secured its first UK commission, a 30-minute animated Christmas special for Channel 4.
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C4 brings back squirtgate pranksters
The Channel 4 entertainment series that was responsible for Tom Cruise being sprayed with a water pistol before a film premiere has been recommissioned. Objective's Balls of Steel will return for an as yet undecided run of 45-minute episodes helmed by Mark Dolan, who will continue his part-time presenting role ...
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C4 follows unusual beauty pageant
Channel 4 is to delve into the world of beauty pageants with an hour-long documentary commission with a twist. Plus Size Beauty Pageant (working title) is the story of a group of British women attempting to put on a US-style beauty pageant, but for size 16 and above women. C4 ...
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Carbon nets C4 doc
Indie Carbon Media is to follow two gay clergy members for Channel 4 as they take advantage of changes in the law to get married. Love and the Church (working title) follows an Anglican Church priest and a vicar from the Metropolitan Church who are marrying their partners. The idea ...
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C4 to chart 2005's disasters
Channel 4 has commissioned indie Pioneer Productions to produce a major fast turnaround documentary chronicling the year's numerous natural disasters.