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ITV2 aims to raise spirits
ITV2 is taking on Living TV's grip on paranormal TV with a new series called Haunted Homes.September Films is making the 6 x 45-minute series, in which a group of experts go into a home to establish the truth about a family's claims that ghosts and ...
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Discovery to air businesswoman show
Discovery Home & Health vice-president and channel controller Clare Laycock has commissioned Tern Television to make an observational documentary looking at women entrepreneurs as they prepare to launch their businesses. Ladies That Launchis 15 x 30-minute series set to air later this year. The executive producers ...
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Davina joins BBC
Big Brother presenter Davina McCall is to make her first programme for BBC1 - a parenting show called He's Having a Baby. The primetime Saturday show follows the experiences of eight new fathers as they cope with the arrival of their babies. The Hat Trick-produced series ...
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Five to show its bottle for kids
Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson has commissioned Bottle Top Bill, an animated kids series for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. Produced by Southern Star, the 26 x 11-minute series follows Bottle Top Bill and his horse, Corky. The pair use ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Jon Plowman
The BBC's head of comedy entertainment is looking for half-hour comedies which chime with the real world and have real characters
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Mentorn wins trio of commissions
Mentorn has won a trio of commissions for Channel 4 and Discovery Health, including a programme which follows attempts to create a diet plan for the world's fattest man.
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ITV to consider love island return
ITV has commissioned research into the performance of controversial reality series Celebrity Love Island, before deciding whether to recommission the Granada show. The broadcaster will use the research, which will examine the viewers' opinions on the show, to decide if the celebrity romance series will come ...
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Five helps viewers get dream job
Five is looking to help people to secure their dream job with a new series created by indies Maverick Television and Shine.
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First timewatch order for Testimony
Testimony Films has been given its first commission for the BBC's Timewatchstrand. Children of the Doomed Voyagetells the story of the evacuee ship SS Benares, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1940. The 50-minute documentary uses archive footage and interviews ...
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Living TV orders two paranormal shows
Living TV is beefing up its paranormal output with two primetime orders.
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BBC show spend rises to£2.4bn
The BBC is to reveal that it pumped an extra£100m into programme-making last year, but the amount given to the indie sector grew by only£3m.
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19TV makes M15 conman drama for Five
Simon Fuller's indie, 19TV, is developing a one-off drama for Five on the astonishing true story of a conman who posed as an MI5 agent and ruthlessly deceived victims over a 10-year period.
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NewsMcCall signs up for BBC1 primetime
Big Brotherpresenter Davina McCall is to make her first programme for BBC1 - a parenting show called He's Having a Baby.
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NewsITV bags Liverpool Champions League bid
ITV has signed a deal to broadcast Liverpool's defence of the Champions League title after securing the rights to the home and away legs of the club's first qualifying match.
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BBC2 lines up new archive programme
BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...
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BBC2 orders major series on Middle East
The BBC is hoping to address concerns over its coverage of the Middle East with a landmark documentary on the peace process.
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C4 ends Countdown era
Channel 4 will tomorrow (Friday) screen the last Richard Whiteley-fronted episode of Countdownas part of an afternoon dedicated to the channel's longest serving face.
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Five orders doc about oldest mother
Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.
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BBC America co-pros
BBC America has agreed to co-produce two BBC TV movies from Talkback, written by Stephen Poliakoff. Friends and Crocodilescharts the shifts in power between a boss and his secretary and Gideon's Daughterstars Bill Nighy as a PR guru forced to re-evaluate his ...
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Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV
CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...