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All3Media tops $1m with Serious sales
All3Media International has sold all three of the available series from the the BBC children's factual strand Serious? to Discovery Kids in the US.
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NewsFive extends rights to Noddy until 2012
Five has picked up seven more years of children's classic Noddy, extending its rights deal to 2012.
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NewsITV London charts 7/7 attacks
ITV London is to revisit this summer's terrorist attacks that crippled the capital, with two documentaries from Mosaic Films.
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NewsBBC's Africa Live heads to America
Africa Live, the concert movie featured in BBC4's Africa Lives season in August, has been sold to US public service network, PBS.
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NewsJamie's Great Escape heads to Australia
9.45am: TV chef Jamie Oliver is heading Down Under after Fremantle International Distribution signed a deal with Australian broadcaster Network Ten.
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NewsCommander In Chief exec producer defends show
The French executive producer of new US drama Commander In Chief has hit back at UK terrestrial broadcasters' claims the show is 'jingoistic'.
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NewsITV2 brings back Oprah
8am: American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is to return to UK screens after a three-year absence.
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BBC3 forks out for more Spendaholics
BBC3 has commissioned a third helping of its hit series Spendaholics from indie Betty. In Spendaholics out-of-control shoppers are cut off from their credit cards and given help to change their extravagant ways. The 6 x 60-minute series will start filming this month and is due to air early next ...
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C4 orders seventh series of Wife Swap
Channel 4 has picked up a further 6 x 60-minute run of RDF Media's Wife Swap to air late next year. The seventh series order has been made despite the sixth series still being in production. A further 6 x 30-minute run of the accompanying studio-based series Wife Swap The ...
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C4/NatGeo tie-up marks disaster anniversary
Channel 4 and the US National Geographic Channel have jointly backed a major drama-documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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ITV4 set to air Wahlberg's Entourage
ITV4 has signed a deal for HBO comedy Entourage, the series executive produced by Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg. Entourage looks at the day-to-day life of fictional Hollywood actor Vincent Chase (played by Adrian Brenier) and his group of hangers-on, who follow him from New York to Los Angeles.
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My family writers aim at comedy slot
BBC1 is hoping to crack the critical 8.30pm comedy slot with a new series from two of the writers of My Family and My Hero. Home Again, a 6 x 30-minute in-house series written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie, centres around a married couple - played by Samantha Janus ...
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Format focus: All star record breakers
You know celebrity reality shows are far from finished when Guinness World Records TV gets in on the act.
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Animal Planet looks at worst pets in UK
Animal Planet UK has commissioned three series for its winter season, including a Mentorn-produced show looking at the country's naughtiest pets, writes Susan Thompson.
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Zeal fails to find UK terrestrial berth for Miss World
Miss World will be shown to its largest potential global audience ever this year but Zeal Television has failed to secure UK distribution on a terrestrial network.
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Stelios cruises Caribbean for US show
Two Four Productions has secured a deal to produce a US version of the Sky One documentary series Cruise with Stelios for the Travel Channel. Renamed Cruiseline, the series will be shot in the Caribbean. ID Distribution has also sold the 20 x 30-minute UK series to The Travel Channel.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Richard Melman
Channel director of The History Channel and The Biography Channel is open to ideas that will hold an audience for an hour - even if they are written on the back of a fag packet.
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At It cracks US with TLC orders
At IT Productions has secured its first US series commissions with a brace of shows for Discovery-owned cable network TLC.
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It's Me or the Dog format goes French
French network M6 has bought the format to the Ricochet series It's Me or the Dog, which screened on Channel 4 earlier in the year. C4 International has also sold the finished UK series to TV Norge (Norway), YLE (Finland), TV4 (Sweden), TVB (Hong Kong), SBS (the Netherlands) and TV2 ...
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September's weighing in down under
September Films has sold its BBC1 fat camp daytime series, Weighing In, to Australian broadcaster Channel Ten. The 10-part series, presented by Richard Bacon, goes behind the scenes at Europe's first weight-loss camp for children, based in Leeds.