All Commissioning articles – Page 660
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Boorman back on road for Sky One
Sky One has secured exclusive rights to broadcast a follow-up to road trip series Long Way Round, which saw Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman go on a 20,000-mile motorcycle journey around the world. For the follow-up, Boorman has teamed up with BMW rider Simon ...
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Doctor Doctor fills Five morning slot
Princess Productions is to make a new live medical Q&A show to replace The Wright Stuffon Five during the summer. Doctor Doctor, commissioned by Five controller of daytime Kim Peat, will see familiar TV medics, including Dr Phil Hammond, Dr Mark Porter ...
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NewsFive orders UK 'Desperate Housewives'
A British answer to Desperate Housewives- a comedy thriller set in the Home Counties - is to launch on Five.
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ITV reopens Real Crime casebook
ITV1 is to revive its Real Crimestrand with a new 12 x 60-minute series.
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NewsITV1 stacks up daytime orders
ITV1 has commissioned three new shows for its daytime schedule, including a show that aims to find Britain's best amateur portrait painter.
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IWC wins BBC1 daytime order
IWC Media has bagged its first BBC1 daytime commission with a series that pits modern doctors and nurses against medics from the 1950s.
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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.