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Kudos works up fraud romance for BBC
Kudos is developing a drama for BBC1 based around one of the world's fastest growing frauds. Skimming (working title) is a romantic tale about a man stealing money from the company he works for and the woman who is brought in to investigate. Nick Fisher is writing the six-part series, ...
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TWI to bring colour to Queen's birthday party
TWI's next big project in its award-winning In Colour series will be The Queen in Colour, which it hopes to air in April to accompany Elizabeth II's birthday celebrations.
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Manic to make rent boy co-pro
UK indie Manic Television Production & Film has signed a co-production deal with Czech-based International Production Company for an eight-part TV drama series about London rent boys. Rules of the Game is based on a true story and filming is due to begin in Prague next April. No broadcaster is ...
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Sundance to bring ladettes to US pay-TV
US premium cable channel Sundance has bought the US pay-TV rights to RDF Media reality series Ladette to Lady, which became a surprise hit on ITV1 earlier in the year. The 5 x 60-minute series features 10 'ladettes' leaving behind their 'blokeish' lives to become well-mannered ladies. ITV has already ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Chantal Rutherford Browne
The commissioning editor of three UKTV lifestyle channels has her short-term sights set on women's relationships and well-being.
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CBS snaps up Gameshow Marathon
US network CBS has picked up the rights to the UK celebrity format Gameshow Marathon. The Ant and Dec-hosted series, produced by Fremantle Media and Granada, became a massive hit for ITV1 during its recent Saturday night run in September. The Geordie duo is not expected to host the US ...
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Redback recruits reeve for conspiracies
Redback has recruited Simon Reeve, the presenter of BBC2's Holidays in the Danger Zone and Places that Don't Exist, to front the third series of its Sky One show Conspiracies. He takes over from Danny Wallace for the 3 x 60-minute series, which has just gone into production for transmission ...
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Twofour to make daytime rowing epic
Twofour Broadcast has been commissioned by Jay Hunt, controller of BBC daytime, to produce an hour-long documentary following Olympic rower James Cracknell and presenter and rowing novice Ben Fogle's bid to win the Atlantic Rowing Race. In Two Boys in a Boat (working title) the pair will attempt to row ...
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Sky One hires war reporter topresent mercenaries doc
Sky One has hired former war correspondent Sam Kiley to front a series of investigative shows.
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Format focus: Treasure Hunters
A big budget reality format set to air on NBC in the US next year could soon be making its way here.
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Talpa stocks up on history
BBC Worldwide has signed its first deal with Big Brother creator John De Mol's new Dutch TV channel Talpa.
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ITV's US hunt set to push up prices
ITV's poaching of Five director of acquisitions Jay Kandola could have major implications for the ever-expanding US acquisitions marketplace.
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Tiger runs with a third Seaside Parish
A third run of Tiger Aspect documentary series A Seaside Parish has been commissioned by BBC2. The 10 x 30-minute episodes will revisit the Reverend Christine Musser and her parishioners in Boscastle to discover how they are coping with the first crucial tourist season since the 2004 floods. For the ...
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ITV's new doyenne of daytime
Simon Shaps pulled off a coup by enticing CBBC controller Alison Sharman to defect to ITV. But is his new factual and daytime boss ready for the challenge?
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Return of the heroes
A rush to remake classic adventure series such as Doctor Who, Robin Hood and The Prisoner suggests we've had enough of anti-heroes and ambiguity and that old-school heroes are back in fashion, says David Wood.
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NewsC4 has another art attack
Channel 4 has launched another major public art initiative, with a scheme to fund three 'Sci-Art' projects.
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Five to capture Pompeii dig live
Five is continuing its series of live historical outside broadcasts with a series of major excavations in the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, planned for next summer.
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NewsBBC series looks at convent life
BBC2 is to follow up its hit series The Monastery with a programme looking at women's progress in a convent.
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NewsCollins to host Have I Got News For You
Hat Trick has lined up former Dynasty star Joan Collins as a guest presenter for Have I Got News For You in the run up to Christmas.
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NewsBBC4 profiles Kenneth Williams
BBC4 is to profile the life and death of the legendary star of the Carry On... films, Kenneth Williams, in a drama for broadcast next spring.