All Commissioning articles – Page 656

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    Series to show celibate teenagers

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Teens who volunteer to abstain from sex are to be filmed for a new BBC2 documentary. No Sex Please, We're Teenagers, commissioned from indie IWC Media, will follow a group of 12 Harrow teenagers aged 15 to 17 as they take a vow of chastity for ...

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.

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    Fifth Gear relaunches as one-hour show

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Five motoring show Fifth Gearis to be extended to an hour-long format in a bid to ape the successful relaunch of BBC2's Top Gear. For its eighth outing in the autumn, The North One show will be filmed at a studio in Birmingham. ...

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    Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...

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    Shed cracks BBC with school drama

    2005-06-30T07:50:12Z

    Shed Productions, the stock market-listed indie behind Footballers' Wives, has bagged its first BBC commission.

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    Five makes film on conman

    2005-06-30T07:50:08Z

    Five has commissioned Creative Touch Films to make a documentary based on bogus MI5 conman Robert Hendy-Freegard and has signed an exclusive contract with one of his victims.

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    Winterbottom to direct Guantanamo Bay feature for C4

    2005-06-30T07:50:06Z

    Film director Michael Winterbottom is making his first drama for Channel 4 with a feature-length piece on the three British prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

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    Sky sets off on adventure

    2005-06-30T07:50:02Z

    Sky One has commissioned a new travel show featuring celebrities attempting challenges such as climbing the highest mountain in the Arctic and retracing the 1941 Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union.

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    BBC makes Mitchell and Kenyon follow up

    2005-06-28T10:11:57Z

    BBC2 is making a follow up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon.

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    Commissioning - BBC3 TEARAWAYS SHOW GETS SECOND RUN.

    2005-06-27T09:16:39Z

    Family advice series The House of Tiny Tearaways has been greenlit for a second run on

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    NBC to search for celebrity pop star wannabes

    2005-06-24T10:21:25Z

    Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in their Eyesstyle show for US network NBC, called I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.

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    Lynam to reveal 'real age' on BBC1

    2005-06-24T09:23:29Z

    Des Lynam is to reveal his 'real age' as part of a live, interactive health programme for BBC1's Saturday night schedule.

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    BBC3 tearaways show gets second run

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Family advice series The House of Tiny Tearawayshas been greenlit for a second run on BBC3. The programme, in which clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Byron attempts to improve the behaviour of disruptive kids at a special 'toddler sanctuary', will return in the autumn for a six-episode ...

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    BBC3 shoots live nude art in Newcastle

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is to film several hundred naked people as they take part in a live art event at the Newcastle Gateshead cultural centre. The event is the work of Spencer Tunick, the New York artist whose gatherings of naked people have appeared everywhere, from London to Chile (pictured). The live ...

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    Corrie killer starts a new life in Africa

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Lucy-Jo Hudson, who played Coronation Streetkiller Katy Harris, is to star in a six-part ITV1 drama following a family's attempts to build a new life in Africa. The series, which is called Wild at Heartand also stars Amanda Holden and Stephen Tompkinson, ...

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    Sky lines up goals

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has commissioned Ten Alps TV to make two 120-minute football specials looking at Premiership stars Manchester United.

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    Trouble takes students to US

    2005-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Flextech's youth channel Trouble is giving five Brits the chance to live like American university students in a new reality series from Princess Productions.

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    Taylor responds to Curtis Al-Qaeda doc

    2005-06-23T07:50:12Z

    Veteran terrorism reporter Peter Taylor is to make a BBC2 series on Al-Qaeda, to counter producer Adam Curtis's documentary The Power of Nightmares.

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    C4 orders 'edge of death' series

    2005-06-23T07:49:00Z

    Channel 4is hoping to build on the success of mountaineering docu-drama Touching the Voidwith a new series about people trapped in perilous situations.

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    Vaughan to front ABC show

    2005-06-22T14:12:40Z

    Johnny Vaughan has become the latest UK presenter to land his own show in the US.