All Commissioning articles – Page 666
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Commissioners Q&A: Anne Gilchrist
CBBC's head of entertainment has a budget of up to£132,000 an hour and would like to hear from indies who have a great idea for a comedy for children who've just migrated from Cbeebies
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Second series for Vegas comedy
Johnny Vegas's comedy Idealwill get another series after being recommissioned as part of a series of orders for BBC3. Vegas will be back on screens next year as small-time dope dealer Moz in the comedy, a co-venture between BBC Comedy North and indie Baby Cow Productions. ...
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ITV commissions second Vincent series
ITV has commissioned a second series of the Ray Winstone drama Vincent,before the first series has even aired. ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott was so impressed by the Granada series that he has ordered a further four episodes for next year. Winstone plays a workaholic ...
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Company gets ITV order
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned Shamelessproducer Company Pictures to make a two-part thriller starring Stephen Tompkinson.
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Street-Porter to front women's doc
Janet Street-Porter is to argue that women have never had it so bad in a documentary called Desperate Womenordered by Channel 4 editor of factual entertainment Nav Raman. The 60-minute show is being made by North One Television for transmission later this year. North One is ...
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NewsBBC doc looks at tsunami
BBC1 is to dive deep under the waves of the Indian Ocean for a multimillion-pound programme which will attempt to uncover exactly what triggered last year's devastating Asian tsunami.
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NewsITV restages Gunpowder Plot
ITV is to build an exact replica of the old Houses of Parliament and then blow it up for a new show looking at what would have happened if the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot had been a success.
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NewsPilger plans cinema release for next film
Campaigning journalist John Pilger is positioning himself to be Britain's answer to Michael Moore by lining up his next film for a cinematic release.
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NewsMortal blow for Celeb Wrestling
ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard has moved to address the channel's Saturday night ratings slide by taking the axe to teatime turkey Celebrity Wrestlinghalfway through its run.
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NewsC4 brings back Shipwrecked
Channel 4 is bringing back RDF Media's reality format Shipwreckedin an extended version for its youth zone T4.
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NewsAardman animates Roddy Doyle book
Wallace and Gromitproducer Aardman is making a stop motion TV adaptation of Roddy Doyle's children's book The Giggler Treatment.
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NewsITV revisits old classics
ITV has commissioned more than 30 hours of primetime television to celebrate its 50th anniversary later this year.
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Commissioner's Q & A - Glenwyn Benson
The controller of BBC factual TV is proud to be part of the broadcasting team that helped to raise audience figures for factual shows, and is keen to deliver a follow-up to Supervolcano.
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NewsBBC/ITV exit poll comes up trumps
The BBC and ITV's decision to commission their first ever joint exit poll appears to have been vindicated after the survey correctly predicted a labour majority of 66 seats.
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Mentorn wins£2m of science orders
Mentorn has landed£2m worth of new science commissions, including this year's Royal Institution's Christmas Lectur...
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C4 aims to find a family for the elderly
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a show in which elderly people are adopted by families who have no grandparents.
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SC4 tasks indies to produce three documentary strands
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned content for three new documentary strands it plans to introduce next year.
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C4 takes on Comedy unit's Music spoof
Scottish indie The Comedy Unit has secured a brace of new commissions including a new mockumentary for Channel 4 based on the music scene. Neil McCallum, commissioning editor for music, youth and T4, has ordered 6 x 20-minute series Soundproof.The spoof documentary series will explore why ...
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Wife swap set to return to C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor of documentaries Meredith Chambers has ordered a further two 6 x 60-minute series of RDF Media's Wife Swap.The fifth series will air in the autumn, while the sixth will go out next year.
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Sky to air football awards
Sky One has picked up the UK rights to a new awards ceremony that is being billed as football's answer to the Oscar...