All Commissioning articles – Page 625
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Discovery Kids in commissioning drive
Discovery Kids UK has commissioned two shows, one co-production and two interactive games in the channel's biggest commissioning round since its launch in 2000.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Siwan Jobbins
The commissioning editor, children's, at S4C has high regard for the yuck factor, Trevor Eve's crime-busting antics and C4's recent drama about David Blunkett's fall from grace.
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Portillo fronts doc for BBC/Discovery
Michael Portillo is to confront bears, lynxes and killer whales as he retraces his family roots to Spain for a BBC1 documentary.
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Pioneer order celebrates Americanlove affair with cars
London-based science indie Pioneer Productions has secured a commission from the US Travel Channel to make a series celebrating America's love of cars, trucks and bikes.
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Radio 4 and OU in natural history co-pro
The Open University is working with BBC Radio 4 on an 8 x 30-minute co-production on animal behaviour. The Rules of Life will see Professor Aubrey Manning travel across Europe, the US and Africa with the BBC's Natural History Unit, examining animals' drive for natural selection. The series, which airs ...
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Century films makes More4 prison film
More 4 has ordered a 3 x 60-minute series from Feltham Sings indie Century Films, which will once again explore the British criminal justice system. Prison Monologues (working title) will see actors recreate the experiences of people involved - from victims and criminals to the police and barristers. The series, ...
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C4 ditches Princess
Channel 4 has pulled the plug on a Liverpool Street Productions documentary following Princess Michael of Kent as she tries to sell her 17th-century home, Nether Lypiatt Manor. The broadcaster had concerns that the princess had negotiated with the production company to have full editorial control over the final product, ...
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Daisybeck to profile former East 17 star
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned to make an access-led documentary following former East 17 front man Brian Harvey. The show is the producer's first commission for BBC1's One Life strand and follows the singer's progress since emerging from intensive care following a near fatal car accident in May. ...
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Surgery show for ITV1 day
Endemol UK-owned Brighter Pictures has been commissioned to produce a major new daytime series for ITV1 following the transformation of 15 women who have suffered emotional trauma as a result of their looks.
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Profile: Danny Cohen - An eye on the wider world
Channel 4's self-effacing documentaries chief Danny Cohen has proven range, but could this rising star really be the next Mark Thompson? By Jessica Hodgson.
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Leopard leaps on true drama
ITV drama controller Nick Elliott has commissioned a hard-hitting one-off drama about disability, starring Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall.
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NewsLawson heads to BBC4
Presenter Mark Lawson has quit BBC2's Newsnight Review after 11 years to front an interview series for BBC4.
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NewsJimmy McGovern looks north for BBC
Cracker and The Lakes writer Jimmy McGovern has penned a new drama series for BBC1, staring Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Sue Johnston, and Timothy Spall.
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NewsSharman gives go ahead to Me Too!
8am: CBBC has commissioned preschool series Me Too! from Scottish indie Tattiemoon, the producer of its hit series Balamory.
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NewsFive looks to break records
4pm: Five has commissioned Two Hand Productions to produce Wild World of Records featuring Domino Day, a show covering record breaking attempts such as car dominos and live cockroach eating.
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NewsLiving TV commissions workplace special
Living TV has greenlit All3Media to make Now I'm The Boss, a 60 minute special following an employee who thinks she can do a better job than her manager.
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NewsLiving TV picks up The Comeback
8am: Living TV has picked up the rights for Friends star Lisa Kudrow's HBO comedy The Comeback, which was panned by critics and axed by the network after one series in US.
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US set for 'Muppet idol'
The Muppets are on the comeback trail after US network ABC commissioned a script and five-episode outline for a new
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Format focus: Ranking the Stars
Hot on the heels of Five's Hot Tub Ranking comes a similar Japanese format using using low-grade celebrities.
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Top Gear drives down under
BBC Worldwide Australasia has licensed two series of Top Gear to Australian public broadcaster SBS. The Jeremy Clarkson-hosted motoring show already screens in Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Russia, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, the Philippines and Israel and on global channels BBC Prime, BBC Asia and BBC Japan.