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Wartime reunion for VE anniversary
Wavelength Films is making a 30-minute BBC1 documentary about wartime friends who have lost touch for the broadcaster's season of programmes marking the 60th anniversary of VE Day. The as yet untitled film is currently in pre-production to air as part of the BBC's People's War strand in May. The ...
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BBC3 to show life in a fashion store
Richard Macer, the film-maker behind Shaun Ryder: The Ecstasy and the Agony, has trained his camera on a Middlesbrough fashion store for a new BBC3 documentary. Working-titled Psycheafter the Middlesbrough shop where he has been filming, the 4 x ...
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BBC2 doc will recreate 17th-century farm
A team of academics has been challenged to run a farm in the way it would have worked in the 17th century for a BBC2 documentary series.
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Survival adds to BBC1 medical file
Patients battling life-threatening conditions are to be filmed as part of a major new series for BBC1 to be recorded over two years.
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Ransley does crime for ITV1
The scriptwriter behind the BBC's forthcoming costume drama Fingersmithhas been signed up by ITV to write an original crime drama.
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BBC1 goes to Egypt
The lives of the ancient Egyptians and the archaeologists who uncovered them are being portrayed in a landmark BBC1 series. Discovering Ancient Egyptwill dramatise the tales of explorers who searched for artefacts from the ancient civilization, and recreate the lives of the pharaohs. The 6 x ...
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NewsFive moves Trisha to morning slot
Five is planning to steal a march on ITV by moving Trisha Goddard's new show into the 9.25am berth where ITV1's Trisha has been airing for more than six years.
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Sky One probes politicians' affairs
Sky News anchor Kay Burley is fronting a documentary for Sky One spotlighting the seedy world of Westminster affairs.
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NewsBBC4 charts post-war 'lost decade'
Britain's 'lost decade' in the post-war years is being uncovered as part of a major season for BBC4.
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NewsBBC unveils Strictly Come Dancing for kids
The BBC has made a kids version of its massively successful Strictly Come Dancingformat.
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NewsO'Grady set for third ITV1 series
Paul O'Grady is to be given a third series for his ITV1 daytime show after making a strong return to the channel's afternoon slot this week.
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Stott to star as Rebus returns
ITV1 is to bring back Scottish detective drama Rebus, after a four-year break, with The Vice star Ken Stott taking over the lead role from John Hannah.
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ITV to serve up primetime series on obesity
ITV has commissioned a primetime documentary series that will focus on Britain's first private obesity hospital.
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Sewell tours Italian landmarks for Five
Art critic Brian Sewell is to follow up his Naked Pilgrimseries for Five with a tour of Italy's most prominent art and architectural landmarks. Brian Sewell's Grand Tour of Italywill air this autumn over a 9 x 45-minute series. Kim Peat, controller ...
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Fulmar West to cover Hay-on-Wye
Cardiff-based indie Fulmar West has won a commission to cover the Hay-on-Wye literary festival for Channel 4. Fulmar will produce a 50-minute programme about an as-yet-unnamed contemporary writer and four short films to be shown in the Three Minute Wonderpost-news slot on Channel 4 in the run-up ...
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Commissioning Q&A: Clare Hollywood
The commissioning editor for Living TV is looking for the biggest paranormal idea ever to make the Flextech channel the undisputed home of supernatural programming
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Jailbirds sing for Century
Factual producer Century Films is following up its musical documentary about young offenders, Feltham Sings, with a project set in a women's prison.
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Robert Carlyle to star in ITV thriller
Indie Zenith Entertainment has landed an ITV1 drama commission with a psychological thriller starring Robert Carlyle.
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New Best of Friends
CBBC has commissioned indie Talent Television to make a special version of its kids reality show Best of Friendsfor its upcoming Africa season. The 5 x 30-minute series was commissioned by Anne Gilchrist and will travel to South Africa to test kids' friendships through a series ...