All Commissioning articles – Page 637

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    Sex Traffic writer makes Tsunami doc

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Abi Morgan, writer of the Bafta-winning C4 drama Sex Traffic, has teamed up with drama indie Kudos to make a three-hour BBC drama about last year's Asian tsunami disaster, which claimed more than 200,000 lives on Boxing Day 2004. The show is scheduled to air in ...

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    Discovery takes second Superhomes

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Discovery has commissioned UK-based Flashback Television to produce a second series of Superhomesto air on Discovery Travel & Living in the UK this autumn. Now in production, the 15 x 30-minute lifestyle series will go behind the gates of some of the world's most expensive houses ...

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    Wall to Wall in child prodigy film

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Indie Wall To Wall is to film a set of child prodigies as they grow from childhood to adulthood. Alpha Toddlers, ordered by Channel 4 factual entertainment editor Nav Raman, will follow a group of children who have already been identified as geniuses. The indie will ...

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    Telewest launches football channels

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Telewest Broadband this week launched three new sport channels, timed to coincide with the start of the Bank of Scotland Premier League (SPL) football season. Setanta Sports 2, Celtic TV and Rangers TV will join Setanta Sports 1 on the cable company's digital TV service, providing exclusive live coverage of ...

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    Five hires Betty for birthright show

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Five has given the green light to a 60-minute documentary from Betty TV called Middle Child Syndrome. Commissioned by controller of features and entertainment Ben Frow, the show will examine the psychology of birthright and explore the issues facing middle children, such as Tony Blair and ...

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    Five Backs Gadgets

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    Five has commissioned three new series of its popular science strand The Gadget Showfrom indie North One Television Midlands. Suzi Perry, Jason Bradbury and Jon Bentley will jointly present the 10-episode runs. The first series is set to go out in the autumn. Richard Pearson, who ...

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    BBC set to screen asylum-seekers doc

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has spent three years following a group of asylum- seekers for a landmark programme for BBC2.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Ewan Angus

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    BBC Scotland's commissioning editor, television, explains why, for him, laughter is the best medicine and why the demise of linear scheduling will present broadcasters with one of their biggest challenges.

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    C4 to screen anorexia film for teenagers

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    The disturbing trend among teenage girls to celebrate anorexia and extreme slimming is to be explored in a film for Channel 4's education strand.

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    Radio 2 joins with Open Mike for Edinburgh Fringe coverage

    2005-08-04T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 2 is expanding its coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, teaming up with indie Open Mike Productions to co-produce Lee Mack and Friends' at the Fringe- the first time the station has staged its own show at the comedy festival.

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    Open University to fund history show

    2005-08-04T07:49:00Z

    The Open University's TV arm is pushing ahead with its drive into mainstream programmes by backing a commission from the BBC for a series of history programmes.

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    Harry Hill to front CITV show

    2005-08-03T10:17:17Z

    Comedian Harry Hill is making his first foray into kids TV with a show for CiTV.

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    Five axes Family Affairs

    2005-08-02T09:03:25Z

    Five has axed Family Affairs, the long running soap produced by Talkback Thames, despite efforts by the producer to revive its flagging performance.

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    ITV role for Gimme Gimme's Dreyfus

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    James Dreyfus, star of Gimme Gimme Gimme, is to play the part of two characters in his first lead role in an ITV1 comedy. Inside Out(working title), a 90-minute comedy from Tiger Aspect, revolves around a career criminal and an actor who ...

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    Commissioner's Q&A: Geoff Daniels

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    The senior vice-president of development & production for National Geographic Channels International hopes to stir things up again with a provocative new format and find a breakout science series

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    Marr to host BBC's European quiz show

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's outgoing political editor, Andrew Marr, is to front a BBC2 quiz that will test the European credentials of British viewers. How Euro Are You?is being made by Talent TV, the indie behind inter-active quiz Test the Nation, and will test ...

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    Objective wins Balls of Steel spin-off

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    Objective has been commissioned to make a spin-off of its forthcoming Balls of Steelprank show - the programme which famously filmed actor Tom Cruise getting sprayed with a water pistol, writesGeoff White.

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    Initial to make John Peel special for C4

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is to dig into the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel's record collection for a documentary special this autumn. Initial is making John Peel's Record Boxwith help from the Peel family, notably his son Tom Ravenscroft who is a researcher on the 60-minute show. ...

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    Outhwaite to star in BBC1 hotel drama

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    The world of sex and seduction in the luxury hotel industry is being filmed for a new BBC1 drama by indie Carnival Films. Hotel Babylon- inspired by author Imogen Edwards-Jones' book of the same name - stars Tamzin Outhwaite as an ambitious hotel manager and Max Beesley ...

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    BBC1 looks at international adoption

    2005-07-28T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 is planning a two-part documentary looking at the international adoption trade. The series, called Baby Be Mine, follows several would-be parents as they explore the different options for adopting children abroad, in countries from Romania to Cambodia. The 2 x 60-minute programmes are in production, ...