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BBC commissions more eggheads
BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt has commissioned a fourth series of 12 Yard Productions 'quiz format Eggheads. A further 40 x 30-minute run of the show has been ordered for an eight-week, 6pm slot on BBC2 from November. David Young is the executive ...
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BBC hires Zenith North for spit game
Indie Zenith North has been commissioned to make a hard-hitting drama for a season of BBC2 programmes on racism. Spit Gamehas been written by Peter G Morgan, a former reporter for Channel 4 News, and explores how two youngsters - one a ...
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Format focus: Ciao Darwin
A durable hit in Italy, contestants battle it out in challenges designed to test their evolutionary mettle.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Robert Curran
Discovery Networks International vice-president, production and development, believes surprising viewers is the way to stop audience erosion, wants to deliver uplifting programming and is a Lost fan.
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NewsBBC factual unit facing carve-up
BBC factual director John Willis is considering carving up the division among several creative heads as part of a major re-organisation of the department.
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BBC to air Red's northern legal drama
The BBC is on the verge of signing off its second major drama series in the north of England, with a show from Manchester-based Red Production.
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Five in Bermuda Triangle
The legendary Bermuda Triangle is the subject of Five's next week-long live programming event.
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NewsUKTV buys Paris Hilton reality show
UKTV Style has bought NBC reality sitcom I Want to be a Hilton,which sees Paris Hilton's mother teach wannabe it-girls how to fit into high society.
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NewsHadlow plans BBC4 seasons
BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow is looking to develop the channel by putting on a season of programmes every three months.
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NewsITV unveils new politics format
ITV's new Sunday morning political format, which will replace Jonathan Dimbleby from next year, is to be called Meet the Reporters- a discussion show in which well-known journalists and columnists grill senior politicians.
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ITV1 in charity gig coup
ITV1 is to broadcast the Asda Tickled Pink breast cancer awareness event, featuring music acts including Westlife and Sheryl Crow, for its Saturday night schedule.
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All Out assault bags six commissions for R4 and 1Xtra
Radio indie All Out Productions has won six commissions for BBC Radio 4 and 1Xtra's autumn line-ups.
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ITV4 goes to war
ITV4 has bought two hour-long war documentaries from distributor Mercury Media. The Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters, from French producer Les Films Grain de Sable, is an investigation into the sinking of the Russian super-sub. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, produced by Globalvision in the ...
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Shoebox Zoo to be unleashed once again
BBC kids series Shoebox Zoo has won a second series commission and is being shown on the CBBC Channel before transferring to BBC1. The animation features the voices of Simon Callow, Rik Mayall and Jason Connery and is a co-production between CBBC Scotland, Los Angeles-based producer Blueprint Entertainment and Canadian ...
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Belfast documentary is last in trilogy
Five has commissioned a 40-minute documentary from film-maker Michael Grigsby looking at Belfast as it recovers from its violent past. Rehearsals, shot in high definition, revolves around a group of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes and pubs, set against images of Belfast. It is ...
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Living branches out
Living TV director Richard Woolfe said the channel was no longer looking to commission shows for its pink and paranormal strands and was on the look out for the 'next big, noisy breakthrough genre'. He said the channel's budget is£20,000 per half hour for daytime and£100,000 plus for primetime.
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Bravo takes Bullrun rally by the horns
Bravo has commissioned Giant Film and TV to produce coverage of this year's Bullrun 2005 race in the US. Dubbed the
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Discovery stocks up for Christmas
Discovery Real Time channel director Paul Welling has greenlit more than 50 hours of programming for the channel's pre-Christmas and early 2006 schedules.
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Impossible wins Discovery US order
Impossible Pictures, the company formed by the team behind Walking with Dinosaurs, is making an ambitious documentary series for Discovery Channel US, which will recreate major natural disasters.