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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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Sharman orders Pratchett drama
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel. Zoë Wanamaker, Frank Finlay and Keith Barron have been lined up to star in Johnny and the Bomb. The 3 x 50-minute series is being ...
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Ex-Clinton spokesman for Sky News
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News. World News Tonightwill see Rubin presenting a weekday 60-minute roundup of the big international stories and will include interviews with key figures on the international stage. The show, which is ...
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Talkback makes history for Five kids
Talkback Thames is making a history show for Five's children's strand Shake. Heroes of Historysees Fran Beauman and Ania Dykczak taking on a different character each week, getting inside their skins by living the life they would have led - mastering horseriding as Joan of Arc, ...
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UK indies scoop MTV Int orders
UK indies have been given a strong hand in MTV Networks International's autumn line-up, which includes a Tiger Aspect production following a group of virgins on the road to sexual maturity.
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UKTV launches sports series
UKTV is making its first foray into sports with a 10-part weekly series from TWI, designed to encourage people to participate in sport. The 90-minute show, UKTV Sport, will include coverage of nine events such as badminton as well as information on upcoming sporting events. BBC presenter John Inverdale, Olympic ...
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NewsBBC2 to capture patient's dying moment on TV
BBC2 is to screen a real death as part of a controversial Endemol UK documentary investigating end-of-life care in Britain.
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NewsHammond wins ITV1 daytime slot
ITV1 plans to turn Top Gearpresenter Richard Hammond into a daytime TV star with its new teatime factual entertainment show.
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Discovery tunes up reality show
Discovery Channel UK is making its first foray into reality TV, commissioning Endemol UK to produce a series based in an expat-run garage in Spain.
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NewsUKTV gets sporty
1pm:UKTV is making its first foray into sports programming with a ten part weekly series from TWI, designed to encourage people to participate in sports.
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NewsComics strip off for BBC2 show
11am:Comedians Griff Rhys-Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain are to strip off on camera as part of a bid to recreate the journey that inspired the book Three Men In A Boatfor BBC2.
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NewsITV woos Omaar for 7/7 special
Rageh Omaar, the reporter famed for his coverage of the war in Iraq, is set to turn his sights closer to home for his next ITV project.
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NewsNigella signs to BBC2
Nigella Lawson is to front her first show for the BBC after her ITV daytime show for ITV1 flopped.
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NewsNat Geo lines up hurricane doc
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster.
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NewsDecode launches Aardman copro
Aardman Animation's first TV co-production is set to launch at Mipcom ahead of its debut on Canada's Teletoon this November.
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NewsC4I pushes Two Sides TV special
Channel 4 International is heading to Cannes with a new animated special from the veteran producer of Yellow Submarineand The Snowman.
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NewsPeak to promote Muffin the Mule at Mipcom
Derbyshire-based kids entertainment outfit Peak Entertainment is bringing BBC kids classic Muffin the Muleto Mipcom, ahead of the character's 60th anniversary in 2006.
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NewsBBC brings Charlie & Lola to Cannes
BBC Worldwide will be looking to tie up further deals for Tiger Aspect's 26-part pre-school series Charlie & Lolaat Mipcom, following its launch on Playhouse Disney in the US earlier this year.
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NewsBBC drama to probe IVF treatment
Former EastEndersstar Michelle Collins and Waking The Deadactor Trevor Eve are set to star in a new BBC1 drama about the world of fertility treatment.
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NewsPratchett drama for CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel.