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NewsShed cracks BBC with school drama
Shed Productions, the stock market-listed indie behind Footballers' Wives, has bagged its first BBC commission.
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Five makes film on conman
Five has commissioned Creative Touch Films to make a documentary based on bogus MI5 conman Robert Hendy-Freegard and has signed an exclusive contract with one of his victims.
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Winterbottom to direct Guantanamo Bay feature for C4
Film director Michael Winterbottom is making his first drama for Channel 4 with a feature-length piece on the three British prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Sky sets off on adventure
Sky One has commissioned a new travel show featuring celebrities attempting challenges such as climbing the highest mountain in the Arctic and retracing the 1941 Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union.
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NewsBBC makes Mitchell and Kenyon follow up
BBC2 is making a follow up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon.
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Commissioning - BBC3 TEARAWAYS SHOW GETS SECOND RUN.
Family advice series The House of Tiny Tearaways has been greenlit for a second run on
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NewsNBC to search for celebrity pop star wannabes
Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in their Eyesstyle show for US network NBC, called I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.
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NewsLynam to reveal 'real age' on BBC1
Des Lynam is to reveal his 'real age' as part of a live, interactive health programme for BBC1's Saturday night schedule.
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Trouble takes students to US
Flextech's youth channel Trouble is giving five Brits the chance to live like American university students in a new reality series from Princess Productions.
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Sky lines up goals
Sky One has commissioned Ten Alps TV to make two 120-minute football specials looking at Premiership stars Manchester United.
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Corrie killer starts a new life in Africa
Lucy-Jo Hudson, who played Coronation Streetkiller Katy Harris, is to star in a six-part ITV1 drama following a family's attempts to build a new life in Africa. The series, which is called Wild at Heartand also stars Amanda Holden and Stephen Tompkinson, ...
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BBC3 tearaways show gets second run
Family advice series The House of Tiny Tearawayshas been greenlit for a second run on BBC3. The programme, in which clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Byron attempts to improve the behaviour of disruptive kids at a special 'toddler sanctuary', will return in the autumn for a six-episode ...
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BBC3 shoots live nude art in Newcastle
BBC3 is to film several hundred naked people as they take part in a live art event at the Newcastle Gateshead cultural centre. The event is the work of Spencer Tunick, the New York artist whose gatherings of naked people have appeared everywhere, from London to Chile (pictured). The live ...
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Taylor responds to Curtis Al-Qaeda doc
Veteran terrorism reporter Peter Taylor is to make a BBC2 series on Al-Qaeda, to counter producer Adam Curtis's documentary The Power of Nightmares.
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C4 orders 'edge of death' series
Channel 4is hoping to build on the success of mountaineering docu-drama Touching the Voidwith a new series about people trapped in perilous situations.
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NewsVaughan to front ABC show
Johnny Vaughan has become the latest UK presenter to land his own show in the US.
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NewsSpringwatch recommissioned
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has given the thumbs up for another three-week run of the channel's natural history extravaganza Springwatch with Bill Oddienext year.
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Flashback wins US History orders
Indie Flashback TV has further cemented its relationship with US broadcaster A&E, landing $3m (£1.67m) worth of new business for the History Channel.
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Monkey Dust writer gets the message
The writer behind Radio 4 comedy programme Radio 9has been given his first TV series commission by BBC3. Johnny Daukes, who also contributed to BBC3 animation sketch show Monkey Dust, is to write The Message, created around a spoof channel ...
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Floyd to explore pakistani cuisine
Sky's commissioning editor of factual entertainment, Paul Crompton, greenlit the series for the autumn.