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Challenge gambles around the world
Challenge has commissioned Class Films to make The Ultimate Gambler, a 15 x 30-minute series following an ex-croupier as he gambles his way around the world. Armed with£15,000 and travelling to 15 different countries Cole Parker will bet his money on everything from Filipino fighting spiders ...
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Zig Zag backs Hotel Channel
Zig Zag Productions has branched out into the channel market, backing a new broadband TV station aimed at tourists and business travellers in London.
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Box TV embarks on Conrad Black drama
Hollywood actress Lara Flynn Boyle will arrive in London next week to begin filming on the 120-minute Box TV production Shades of Black, dramatising the fall of disgraced former Daily Telegraphproprietor Conrad Black. Flynn Boyle stars as Black's wife, Barbara Amiel, while Black ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Karen Brown
The BBC's daytime commissioning editor - out of London and entertainment is most excited by a project chronicling one woman's efforts to transform a deprived housing estate
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Cartoon network superhero exclusive
The Cartoon Network has optioned exclusive broadcasting rights in the US for Gene-Fusion, an animated action adventure produced by Belfast-based Banjax Studios, Pop6 and Beckett Entertainment. The film will be delivered in late 2006, with a 26 x 30-minute TV series to follow in 2007. The ...
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Quiz Nation debuts Celebrity Sudoku
Optimistic Entertainment is making a live daily series called Celebrity Sudokuto kick off its new look Quiz Nation channel. The two-hour show, being executive produced by radio presenter Richard Bacon and Flipsideassociate producer David Owen, uses nine celebrity faces instead of the ...
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Clocking Off writer pens postal drama
Daniel Brocklehurst, one of the writers behind Clocking Off, has won his first series commission with a six-part BBC1 drama about postal workers.
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Five doc follows disabled skateboarder
A film entitled Half Woman Half Skateboardwill form part of Five's fourth series of its Extraordinary Peoplepopular science strand this winter.
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Sky One orders doc on Kate moss fall
Sky One has commissioned Scream Films to make a fast turnaround documentary charting the fall from grace of supermodel Kate Moss. Kate Moss: Fashion Victim?is an hour-long special looking at the media outcry which followed printed pictures of Moss taking drugs and her subsequent dismissal by ...
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Postman Pat firm posts profits rise
Entertainment Rights, the rights firm behind Postman Patand Basil Brush, has reported a 56% increase in profits. Turnover increased by 37% to£12.4m while operating profit was up to£1.2m for the six months to 30 June. Deals with HBO in the US and ...
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Format Focus: Showhouse
Primetime home makeover shows seemed a thing of the past but an Irish indie wants to revive them.
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Granada sells US reality hit to French
Starting Over, a Bunim and Murray reality format represented by Granada International, has been commissioned by French network TF1. An initial order of 50 x 60-minute episodes has been placed for the reality series which gives women the opportunity to make extraordinary changes in their lives such as embarking on ...
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Hit to make Thomas radio show for Fun
Hit Entertainment is to produce two new radio shows for digital children's station Fun Radio, in which it holds a 47.5% stake. From 3 October five to 10 minute Thomas & Friendsstories will go out on weekdays at 3.30pm. Hit has also produced a daily 10.30am ...
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UK hour for Iberia
Viewers in Spain and Portugal are to be offered a daily hour of UK comedy and drama, after a deal was struck between BBC Worldwide and the People + Arts channel. The channel's Iberian feed - a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery - will carry a specially branded ...
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NewsBBC show to offer life of a millionaire
Initial is to make a primetime National Lottery show for BBC1, in which ordinary people are moved into a mansion to lead the lifestyle of a millionaire.
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Le grand Ron: parlez vous?
Pardon my French indeed! Ron Atkinson, the disgraced former football pundit whose poor choice of vocabulary got him sacked by ITV, is to have his foreign language skills put to the test in a new BBC reality show.
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NewsBurchill essay adapted for BBC2
Manchester-based indie Scarlet Television has adapted an essay by journalist Julie Burchill on
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NewsHoney, we've got a second series!
Honey We're Killing The Kids- the BBC3 series that shows how unhealthy lifestyles will affect youngsters later in life - has been recommissioned for a second series.
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NewsComment: Hard times in toon town
Over 700 movers and shakers from Europe's animation industry descended on the Danish city of Kolding last week on the hunt for the next Bob the Builder.
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NewsMinotaur still going strong at ten
Flextech-owned Minotaur International will celebrate its tenth anniversary at next month's Mipcom with the launch of over 150 hours of new programming, including six new 90-minute films in SMG's ITV crime franchise Rebus.