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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.
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Discovery reinvents
Discovery UK senior vice-president and channel director, Jill Offman said she wanted to shake off the Discovery Channel's image of 'sharks and Nazis' and is looking to commission more drama with a human element. Where possible programmes would be shot in high definition.
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Forces order fresh serving of DIY show
British Forces Broadcasting Service Television, the TV and radio service exclusively for the armed forces, has ordered a fifth series of DIY show Hung, Drawn & Quartered. Avent Productions and Deborah McKenna Limited will co-produce the 6 x 30-minute show, which is set at British military ...
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Nat Geo orders terrorism series from ITN Factual
National Geographic has commissioned ITN Factual to make a mini documentary series examining the complex nature of modern terrorism.
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Five ponders Trisha
Five is looking for more vehicles for talkshow host Trisha Goddard. Director of programmes Dan Chambers said he has lined up a 'reality event' show and another involving 'quirky individuals', but had yet to decide between the two. Trisha currently hosts Trisha Goddardon Five.
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Walking on the wild side
Bethan Corney has perfected the art of reworking documentaries for broadcast on Five. Now she's taking on the BBC with original commissions.
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Channel 4 draws a blank for breakfast
Channel 4 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has admitted that he is still no closer to finding a new breakfast show, despite having heard pitches for nearly two years.
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More4 invests in British drama
Channel 4 has earmarked budgets of between£300,000 and£1m for 60-minute documentaries on new factual digital channel More4.
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NewsITV1 signs up cancer charity show
ITV1 has acquired the rights 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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NewsParamount orders You've Been Maimed
Paramount Comedy has picked up a new clip show dubbed the You've Been Framedfor the Jackass generation.
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Forsyth makes plea for missing Palladium tapes.
Bruce Forsyth has thrown his weight behind ITV's BFI-backed campaign Missing Believed Wiped, in a bid to uncover classic Sunday Night at the Palladium shows, writes Colin Robertson.
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NewsFive orders 'thirtysomething' drama.
Five has made a rare two-hour drama, Perfect Day, for its autumn schedule.
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NewsBBC dramatises Paddington rail crash
BBC1 is to air a docu-drama based on the Paddington rail disaster in which 31 people died.
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NewsBBC reporter 'greys up' for sting show
BBC1 undercover expos programme Rogue Tradershas used an Oscar-nominated make-up artist to turn its presenter into a pensioner to catch out shifty tradesmen.
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Shine launches Navy doc for BBC1
Indie Shine has bolstered its factual slate with a pair of series commissions for BBC1 and ITV1.