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NewsC4I pushes Two Sides TV special
Channel 4 International is heading to Cannes with a new animated special from the veteran producer of Yellow Submarineand The Snowman.
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NewsPeak to promote Muffin the Mule at Mipcom
Derbyshire-based kids entertainment outfit Peak Entertainment is bringing BBC kids classic Muffin the Muleto Mipcom, ahead of the character's 60th anniversary in 2006.
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NewsBBC brings Charlie & Lola to Cannes
BBC Worldwide will be looking to tie up further deals for Tiger Aspect's 26-part pre-school series Charlie & Lolaat Mipcom, following its launch on Playhouse Disney in the US earlier this year.
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NewsBBC drama to probe IVF treatment
Former EastEndersstar Michelle Collins and Waking The Deadactor Trevor Eve are set to star in a new BBC1 drama about the world of fertility treatment.
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NewsPratchett drama for CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Robert Curran
Discovery Networks International vice-president, production and development, believes surprising viewers is the way to stop audience erosion, wants to deliver uplifting programming and is a Lost fan.
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Format focus: Ciao Darwin
A durable hit in Italy, contestants battle it out in challenges designed to test their evolutionary mettle.
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BBC Worldwide presells football doc
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold its football series The Greatest Show on Earthto three new territories. The 6 x 50-minute documentary on the football World Cup, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide and Fifa, has been bought by Canal Plus in Spain, RTP in Portugal and the rights ...
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BBC signs up for Chinatown doc
Films of Record has been commissioned to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about the lives of the inhabitants of London's Chinatown for BBC2.
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Presentable wins BBC Wales job
Cardiff-based indie Presentable has won a series of commissions from BBC Wales, including a one-off comedy about a maverick historian-cum-cabbie.
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BBC commissions more eggheads
BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt has commissioned a fourth series of 12 Yard Productions 'quiz format Eggheads. A further 40 x 30-minute run of the show has been ordered for an eight-week, 6pm slot on BBC2 from November. David Young is the executive ...
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BBC hires Zenith North for spit game
Indie Zenith North has been commissioned to make a hard-hitting drama for a season of BBC2 programmes on racism. Spit Gamehas been written by Peter G Morgan, a former reporter for Channel 4 News, and explores how two youngsters - one a ...
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Robbie season on C4
Channel 4 has commissioned a season of programmes on Robbie Williams, including a follow up to his Live at Knebworth concert. Robbie Williams: Live in Berlin(working title), is being filmed by indie Done And Dusted for broadcast on 22 or 23 October, when C4 also has ...
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Channel 4 hires The Comedy Unit for music and science show
Glasgow-based indie The Comedy Unit is to combine science experiments and music trivia for a new show for Channel 4.
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Radio 4 to air Morrissey memoirs
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a 30-minute one-off programme looking at life on the road with Mancunian indie icon Morrissey. I Was Morrissey's Drummeris based around the memoirs of drummer, comedian and writer Andrew McGibbon, who worked with The Smiths singer. Contributors include Morrissey, Madness frontman ...
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Aussie Ten takes BBC3 kids diet show
Australia's Ten network has snapped up the rights to new BBC3 lifestyle format Honey, We're Killing the Kids!The You Are What You Eat-style show, created by BBC Manchester's format entertainment department for BBC Learning, looks at the diet parents feed their children ...
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NewsBBC factual unit facing carve-up
BBC factual director John Willis is considering carving up the division among several creative heads as part of a major re-organisation of the department.
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BBC to air Red's northern legal drama
The BBC is on the verge of signing off its second major drama series in the north of England, with a show from Manchester-based Red Production.
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Five in Bermuda Triangle
The legendary Bermuda Triangle is the subject of Five's next week-long live programming event.
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NewsUKTV buys Paris Hilton reality show
UKTV Style has bought NBC reality sitcom I Want to be a Hilton,which sees Paris Hilton's mother teach wannabe it-girls how to fit into high society.