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NewsC4 show to create new girl band
Fame Academyproducer Initial has teamed up with Polydor, the record label behind Eminem and Girls Aloud, to make an ambitious Channel 4 series following an all-girl pop group's attempts to crack the mainstream.
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NewsBBC2 to turn bad dressers into style icons
Frumpy members of the public are to be forced to dress as dominatrixes, geishas and bunny girls for a BBC2 makeover series.
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Sky and Chelsea scout for footballing talent
Premiership champions Chelsea FC have teamed up with Sky One for a£2m UK-wide talent search to find the club's next star.
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ITV2 follows X-Factor contestant
ITV2 has commissioned Sienna Productions to make a one-hour special about The X-Factorcontestant Tabby Callaghan. The programme, working titled What Tabby Did Next, has been following the singer since he was on the show and will also look at his family life. ...
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Diverse draws on art world for BBC booking
Diverse, the indie behind Operatunityand Musicality, is attempting to democratise the world of high art for a new show for the BBC.
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Avalon bags fifth run for TV Burp
ITV1 has commissioned Avalon to make a fifth series of Harry Hill's TV Burp, with an increased 10-part run. The Bafta-nominated show, which takes a sideways glance at the week's television, has been booked for a 10 x 30-minute series, which is due to be delivered ...
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Lion TV expands Beat the... format for BBC
Lion TV has secured another BBC daytime series with a spin-off of its Beat the Burglarformat.
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Second bite for Masterchef Goes Large
BBC2 has commissioned a second series of Masterchef Goes Largefrom indie Shine, adding an extra 10 episodes to its run. The programme, which hunts out budding chefs, putting them through their paces to earn a place in a top restaurant or as a TV chef ' ...
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ITV to enter ring with boxing bouts
ITV could be set to make boxing coverage a permanent part of its schedule after Saturday's bout between Amir Khan and Mario Kindelan pulled in 6.3 million viewers. The live fight on 14 May was the first boxing match that the channel had broadcast in about 10 years and was ...
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Brighton lines up Saddam's doctor
Indie Brighton TV has inked three commissions for US broadcaster A&E's History Channel including a film exploring the relationship between Saddam Hussein and his doctor.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Katie Speight
More4's editor is already getting excited by the programmes in development for this year's launch night, but she is still looking for some landmark event pieces to fill up next year's schedules
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Discovery Kids ups new output
Discovery Kids channel director Clare Laycock has signed off the channel's biggest commission slate to date with three new 13 x 15-minute series.
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New Tricks secures first ever BBC double
The BBC has handed an unprecedented double series commission to Wall to Wall's detective drama New Tricks, in what it claimed is a move to give more security to indies.
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8mm wins backgammon series
8mm Productions has won a commission from gaming channel Pokerzone to cover the forthcoming backgammon world championship. The indie will make High Stakes Backgammonas a 4 x 60-minute series following the event in July. 8mm Productions chief executive and creative director Andy Bell is producing with Pokerzone's ...
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NewsC4 buys feted Hitler biopic
Channel 4 has boosted its line-up for its soon-to-launch digital channel More4 by snapping up the first-run rights to celebrated German film Downfall.
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NewsStars line up for US Strictly Come Dancing
Supermodel Rachel Hunter and heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield are to go head to head in the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.
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C4 show looks at black farmer
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series following Britain's only black farmer as he attempts to get more young black and Asian people involved in rural affairs.
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C4 backs playwright reality show
Budding playwrights are being given the chance to see their work produced for the West End stage in The Play's The Thing, a new reality arts series for Channel 4, ordered from Granada and ScreenStage. The 4 x 60-minute series will follow the search for an ...
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Aardman to adapt Doyle novel
Wallace and Grommitproducer Aardman is making a stop-motion TV adaptation of Roddy Doyle's children's book The Giggler Treatment. The Bristol-based indie has teamed up with Treasure Entertainment on the 30-minute show, which is currently being pitched to broadcasters. Production is expected to start in the autumn.
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Five to air The Tribe sequel
Five has commissioned a sequel to its children's sci-fi drama The Tribe.