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NewsC4 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Crime 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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NewsWildebeest trek finally arrives at BBC1
BBC1 has finally scheduled Trek, an epic wildlife documentary following the great wildebeest trek across the African savanna, which has been more than two years in production.
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NewsBBC moves cricket to BBC1
The BBC has decided to switch its cricket World Cup highlights from BBC2 to BBC1, when action starts in the West Indies in March 2007.
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NewsC4 attacks Panorama slot shift
Channel 4 has hit out at the BBC's decision to re-schedule Panoramain a Monday night slot that pits it against its own acclaimed current affairs strand Dispatches.
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NewsLucas and Walliams at work on new BBC1 series
Matt Lucas and David Walliams are developing a new series for BBC1 featuring characters from Little Britain after signing a three-year exclusive deal with the corporation.
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NewsTalent to spearhead BBC1's autumn
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham has unveiled his autumn schedule, claiming that he is putting 'top talent' at the heart of the channel with new shows for Sarah Lancashire, Lenny Henry and Dawn French.
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NewsPanorama to make primetime comeback
Panoramawill return to a regular weekday primetime slot, airing for 30-minutes on Mondays at 8.30pm from January, BBC1 controller Peter Fincham announced today.