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NewsHammond wins ITV1 daytime slot
ITV1 plans to turn Top Gearpresenter Richard Hammond into a daytime TV star with its new teatime factual entertainment show.
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Discovery tunes up reality show
Discovery Channel UK is making its first foray into reality TV, commissioning Endemol UK to produce a series based in an expat-run garage in Spain.
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NewsUKTV gets sporty
1pm:UKTV is making its first foray into sports programming with a ten part weekly series from TWI, designed to encourage people to participate in sports.
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NewsComics strip off for BBC2 show
11am:Comedians Griff Rhys-Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain are to strip off on camera as part of a bid to recreate the journey that inspired the book Three Men In A Boatfor BBC2.
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NewsITV woos Omaar for 7/7 special
Rageh Omaar, the reporter famed for his coverage of the war in Iraq, is set to turn his sights closer to home for his next ITV project.
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NewsNigella signs to BBC2
Nigella Lawson is to front her first show for the BBC after her ITV daytime show for ITV1 flopped.
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NewsNat Geo lines up hurricane doc
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster.
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NewsDecode launches Aardman copro
Aardman Animation's first TV co-production is set to launch at Mipcom ahead of its debut on Canada's Teletoon this November.
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NewsC4I pushes Two Sides TV special
Channel 4 International is heading to Cannes with a new animated special from the veteran producer of Yellow Submarineand The Snowman.
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NewsPeak to promote Muffin the Mule at Mipcom
Derbyshire-based kids entertainment outfit Peak Entertainment is bringing BBC kids classic Muffin the Muleto Mipcom, ahead of the character's 60th anniversary in 2006.
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NewsBBC brings Charlie & Lola to Cannes
BBC Worldwide will be looking to tie up further deals for Tiger Aspect's 26-part pre-school series Charlie & Lolaat Mipcom, following its launch on Playhouse Disney in the US earlier this year.
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NewsBBC drama to probe IVF treatment
Former EastEndersstar Michelle Collins and Waking The Deadactor Trevor Eve are set to star in a new BBC1 drama about the world of fertility treatment.
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NewsPratchett drama for CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel.
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Aussie Ten takes BBC3 kids diet show
Australia's Ten network has snapped up the rights to new BBC3 lifestyle format Honey, We're Killing the Kids!The You Are What You Eat-style show, created by BBC Manchester's format entertainment department for BBC Learning, looks at the diet parents feed their children ...
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Robbie season on C4
Channel 4 has commissioned a season of programmes on Robbie Williams, including a follow up to his Live at Knebworth concert. Robbie Williams: Live in Berlin(working title), is being filmed by indie Done And Dusted for broadcast on 22 or 23 October, when C4 also has ...
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Channel 4 hires The Comedy Unit for music and science show
Glasgow-based indie The Comedy Unit is to combine science experiments and music trivia for a new show for Channel 4.
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Radio 4 to air Morrissey memoirs
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a 30-minute one-off programme looking at life on the road with Mancunian indie icon Morrissey. I Was Morrissey's Drummeris based around the memoirs of drummer, comedian and writer Andrew McGibbon, who worked with The Smiths singer. Contributors include Morrissey, Madness frontman ...
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BBC Worldwide presells football doc
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold its football series The Greatest Show on Earthto three new territories. The 6 x 50-minute documentary on the football World Cup, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide and Fifa, has been bought by Canal Plus in Spain, RTP in Portugal and the rights ...
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BBC signs up for Chinatown doc
Films of Record has been commissioned to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about the lives of the inhabitants of London's Chinatown for BBC2.
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Presentable wins BBC Wales job
Cardiff-based indie Presentable has won a series of commissions from BBC Wales, including a one-off comedy about a maverick historian-cum-cabbie.