All Commissioning articles – Page 646
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NewsAardman animates Roddy Doyle book
Wallace and Gromitproducer Aardman is making a stop motion TV adaptation of Roddy Doyle's children's book The Giggler Treatment.
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NewsITV revisits old classics
ITV has commissioned more than 30 hours of primetime television to celebrate its 50th anniversary later this year.
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Commissioner's Q & A - Glenwyn Benson
The controller of BBC factual TV is proud to be part of the broadcasting team that helped to raise audience figures for factual shows, and is keen to deliver a follow-up to Supervolcano.
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NewsBBC/ITV exit poll comes up trumps
The BBC and ITV's decision to commission their first ever joint exit poll appears to have been vindicated after the survey correctly predicted a labour majority of 66 seats.
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GF's last hurrah
BBC1's Ground Forceteam are to get a final outing creating an African-themed garden for a one-off programme. The Endemol UK-made series was dropped in March after eight years, in the wake of comments by media secretary Tessa Jowell that the corporation should not 'play copycat' on ...
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Discovery turns fiction into fact
The Discovery Channel's new channel director, Jill Offman, has made her first batch of commissions, including a new...
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Deal for dickinson
The BBC has axed the primetime version of Bargain Huntand given host David Dickinson a new role in another antiques series. Bargain Huntwas given a peaktime slot in 2002 but has failed to meet audience expectations. The daytime edition will remain, hosted ...
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UKTV commissions Pub series
UKTV has commissioned three series from Eagle Media Productions based around an old country pub in Berkshire called The Pot Kiln. For UKTV Food, Eagle is making the 10 x 46-minute A Pub in the Country, which follows a couple as they take over running the ...
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CiTV braces itself for phobias show
CiTV has commissioned indie Darrall Macqueen to make Feel the Fear, a new factual entertainment series exploring fears and phobias. The 13 x 15-minute show challenges CiTV presenters Holly Willoughby and Steve Wilson to face 13 phobias such as a fear of sharks and heights. Aimed ...
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Commissioners Q&A: Glenwyn Benson
The controller of BBC factual TV is proud to be part of the broadcasting team that helped to raise audience figures for factual shows, and is keen to deliver a follow-up to Supervolcano
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Talkback to deliver QI for BBC
Talkback has been commissioned by BBC2 to make a third series of comedy quiz show QI.Filming will start next month on the 12 x 30-minute show, for transmission in the autumn. Produced by creator John Lloyd, the series will be co-produced by Quite Interesting Productions.
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Sky to air football awards
Sky One has picked up the UK rights to a new awards ceremony that is being billed as football's answer to the Oscar...
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NBC set to air hit me baby in JUne
US network NBC has rushed through production on its version of Granada's Saturday night entertainment show Hit Me Baby One More Timeto get the format on air early next month. NBC has ordered three episodes of the show and plans to debut it on 2 June ...
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C4 aims to find a family for the elderly
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a show in which elderly people are adopted by families who have no grandparents.
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SC4 tasks indies to produce three documentary strands
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned content for three new documentary strands it plans to introduce next year.
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C4 takes on Comedy unit's Music spoof
Scottish indie The Comedy Unit has secured a brace of new commissions including a new mockumentary for Channel 4 based on the music scene. Neil McCallum, commissioning editor for music, youth and T4, has ordered 6 x 20-minute series Soundproof.The spoof documentary series will explore why ...
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Wife swap set to return to C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor of documentaries Meredith Chambers has ordered a further two 6 x 60-minute series of RDF Media's Wife Swap.The fifth series will air in the autumn, while the sixth will go out next year.
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Mentorn wins£2m of science orders
Mentorn has landed£2m worth of new science commissions, including this year's Royal Institution's Christmas Lectur...
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NewsBBC axes 'two-tick' commissioning
The BBC is axing the 'double tick' commissioning system introduced by former director general Greg Dyke, and putting more power in the hands of genre commissioners.
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NewsSugar told 'you're hired' for Apprentice II
Electronics tycoon Sir Alan Sugar is to return for a second series of BBC2 reality hit The Apprentice.