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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 ...
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Series to show celibate teenagers
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
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
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
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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NewsShed cracks BBC with school drama
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
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
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
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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NewsBBC makes Mitchell and Kenyon follow up
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.
Family advice series The House of Tiny Tearaways has been greenlit for a second run on
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NewsNBC to search for celebrity pop star wannabes
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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NewsLynam to reveal 'real age' on BBC1
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
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
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 ...