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Real life goes to hospital for Living TV
Living TV has commissioned Real Life Media to make Hospital Live, following on from the previous five-day production of Baby Hospital Live last year. The 5 x 180-minute show will be presented by Carol Smillie and Most Haunted Live's Dr David Bull from South Yorkshire's Rotherham Hospital, in a week-long ...
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Malaysian soccer star to join Fulham
Fulham Football Club has signed up to be involved in the Malaysian version of the Screentime Partners-distributed series Soccer Stars. The London club will provide a 12-month academy placement for the winner of the show, which has also been produced in Portugal and the Middle East. The 13-episode Malaysian series ...
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Zeal wins rights to Sky's football icon
Zeal Television has secured the international format and programme series rights to Sky One's Football Icon. The 8 x 60-minute North One reality series, which will begin screening later this month, is a search for the best unsigned 17-year-old soccer player in the country, who will receive a contract with ...
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Five and Nick Jr re-order Peppa Pig
Contender Entertainment's Peppa Pig has been recommissioned for a further 52 episodes by Five and Nick Jr. The animated pre-school series, which recently launched in the US on Cartoon Network, follows a mischievous pig and her family during everyday adventures. Production will begin immediately with delivery of the first 26 ...
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FX picks up comedy
The FX channel has boosted its comedy slate by buying a pair of sketch shows from Comedy Central. It has picked up the first two seasons of Chappelle Show, written and hosted by Dave Chappelle, for its Comedy Thursdays slot. It will air on FX from January next year. The ...
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Granada Int leads charge into China
Chinese broadcasters' appetite for classic UK drama and educational documentaries has helped Granada International secure five new deals in the territory.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Hannah Beckerman
More4's commissioning editor is keen to develop entertaining, intelligent programming and is on the lookout for provocative features that reflect modern living.
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BBC Worldwide invests in ITV Christmas movie
BBC Worldwide has become an investor in a major ITV Christmas movie, as part of a distribution deal with indie Ecosse Films.
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Format focus: Ballroom Bootcamp
This new reality/entertainment hybrid focuses on uplifting personal stories rather than routine humiliation.
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Five to bring back Swinging sketch show
Five's first homegrown comedy commission, Swinging, a sketch show about relationships and sex, has been recommissioned by the broadcaster.
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Turner is back on TV with Housewives
Anthea Turner, the former GMTV presenter whose career hit the skids following a disastrous appearance in OK! magazine, has resurfaced with a new reality show for BBC3. RDF Media's 8 x 60-minute series Perfect Housewives (working title) will see the former Blue Peter presenter attempt to educate the nation's incompetent ...
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Five ups spend and axes The Farm
Five is increasing its programme budget to more than£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers has confirmed. He said the budget for 2006 would be up at least£10m from the£190m signed off for this year, taking the budget to 'substantially more' than£200m. However, he said the extra cash would ...
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Angry Kid travels to Europe
Cult cartoon Angry Kid will cross the channel after Aardman Animation secured deals with TV Catalunya in Spain and Canal+ in France this week.
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Sky airs Star Wars
BSkyB has signed a major content agreement to show the entire Star Wars saga in 2006. Sky has bought exclusive UK TV rights from Lucas Films and Twentieth Century Fox for the films and will air them from August 2006 to coincide with the start of the pay-TV window for ...
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C4 orders new Bodyshock docs
Some of the world's rarest diseases and conditions are explored in a trio of documentaries from indie Redback for Channel 4.
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C4I to distribute Find Me a Family
Channel 4 International has acquired the global distribution rights to Find Me a Family, a new formatted documentary series from Zig Zag Productions that will air on C4 next year. The show will unite a senior citizen with a family in need of old-fashioned advice and help from the aged. ...
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BBC3 to look at darts legends
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is continuing a push into the factual genre, commissioning a pair of authored documentaries and looking for more programmes to make up a strand.
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BBC3 orders Little Britain studio show
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to star in a Trisha-style chat show in which they will be quizzed on aspects of the show by a studio audience.
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Ladette to Lady in return to ITV1
ITV1 reality show Ladette to Lady has been recommissioned by controller of factual Bridget Boseley for another 5 x 60-minute series.
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ITV1 plans DNA daytime show
SMG TV Productions has landed another ITV1 daytime order, with a 10-part factual series about DNA testing.