All Commissioning articles – Page 675
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C4 puts£13.5m more into event drama.
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from
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NewsBBC4 revives Quatermass Experiment
BBC4 has put a remake of 1950s classic live sci-fi drama The Quatermass Experimentat the heart of its summer season.
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Bailiffs return in BBC1 factual slate
BBC1 has commissioned seven factual series, including a drama-doc about what would happen if Britain was beset by a meteor-ological disaster.
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C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...
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C4 spotlights sport of eating
Twofour Productions is making a documentary about the bizarre 'sport' of competitive eating for Channel 4.
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Channel 4 conceives Morning After Show
Popworldhost Simon Amstell is to front a new live magazine show for Channel 4 taking a comedic look at the week's events. The 6 x 60-minute series, The Morning After Show, will be produced by Talkback Thames and see Amstell and co-hosts Olivia Lee and Barunka ...
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Frow: life lesson shows are losing appeal
Lifestyle shows that attempt to tell people how to run their lives are losing their appeal, according to Ben Frow, the former Channel 4 commissioner behind hits including How Clean is Your House?
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Commissioner's Q&A: Finn Arnesen
Senior vice-president original animation and acquisitions Cartoon Network, Toonami, Boomerang and EMEA international head of programme production on his admiration for Spongebob Squarepants
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Hartswood in Australian co-pro comedy
Hartswood Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Carrie and Barry, has started shooting its latest comedy series, Supernova, in Australia. A co-production with Fox World Australia, the 6 x 30-minute BBC2 series is about a team of astronomers working in the desert. ...
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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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Dickinson stumps up own cash for show
Antiques expert David Dickinson is to host a new 6 x 60-minute peaktime series for BBC1 in which he gives 12 people£50,000 of his own money to buy and sell collectables. Dealing with Dickinsonwill be made by Lion TV and has been ordered by outgoing BBC1 ...
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Lion follows Dickens' trip
Lion TV Scotland is to produce a major new documentary for the BBC chronicling Charles Dickens' travels around the US.
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Tigress turns lost pooches into working dogs
Specialist factual indie Tigress Productions is training three abandoned dogs to competition standard sheepherders in the hope of finding them new homes.
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Five goes for Supersize She
Five is to explore the world of female body-building in documentary Supersize She. The 60-minute film will focus on the story of British female body-builder Joanna Thomas, in her bid to become Miss Olympia - the highest accolade in the sport. Producer Special Edition Films will ...
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UKTV History orders WWII specials
UKTV History has commissioned two series as part of a special V for Victory season, marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in the second world war. Wingspan Fulcrum TV has been commissioned to make 1945, a 5 x 46-minute series on the last months ...
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Abbott moves into docs with ITV survival series
Paul Abbott, the award-winning creator of Shameless, is overseeing a Touching the Void-style documentary series for ITV1.
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NewsFive to screen Empire Awards
Five has snatched the rights to screen the 10 thEmpire Movie Awards from Sky, which Johnny Vaughan is hosting this year.
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NewsC4 puts£22m into drama
Channel 4 is pumping a total of£22m into drama in a bid to air a major production every month from next year.
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NewsFive makeover duo to front The Farm
Five's reality series The Farmis to return for a second run in April hosted by property presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan.
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BBC1 to make a 'star' out of T-Rex
The team behind Walking with Dinosaurshave secured co-production partners for a light-hearted BBC mock-umentary about the 'career' of Tyrannosaurus Rex.