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Racing UK gets slot
Racing UK, the channel owned by 30 of the UK's leading racecourses, has secured a permanent broadcast slot and announced that it will cost a maximum of£20 a month. The company has signed an agreement with Setanta Sport to broadcast Racing UK on channel 432 on Sky.
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Glasgow indie lands German TV task
Glasgow-based indie Caledonia Sterne & Wyld has been hired by German public broadcaster ZDF to shoot a series of interviews for a strand on powerful couples. CS&W will spend the next three weeks filming in the UK and US for an episode being produced by ZDF about Prince Charles and ...
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One Life follows up Lager, Mum and Me
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a spin-off of documentary strand One Life, as well as committing to the main series until at least 2007.
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Kemp on guns for Sky One doc
ITV's former star signing Ross Kemp has landed his first TV role since relinquishing his golden handcuffs deal with the network.
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Joey to lead Five comedy
Five is planning to use new US acquisition Joey costing£500,000 an episode - to launch a block of comedy programming, said its chief executive, Jane Lighting, at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Clone doc picked up
Electric Sky has taken on distribution rights to a controversial documentary about human cloning from producer Peter Williams. Cloning the Dead, a 52-minute piece, follows Professor Panayiotis Zavos' successful attempts to produce a 64-cell embryo from three dead people. The documentary was produced over three ...
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Camp TV criticised
Prominent gay figures have rounded on Channel 4 for its portrayal of homosexuality, claiming commissioners still rely on stereotyped camp imagery. All broadcasters came under fire in Edinburgh for commissioning shows that portrayed gay men as camp figures, such as Living's Queer Eye for a ...
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Court camera pilot
Television cameras will be allowed into English and Welsh courtrooms as part of a pilot study which could pave the way for a permanent TV presence in the courts. The pilot will take place in the Court of Appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Footage from the ...
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Britain gets Move Channel
The UK's first dedicated property channel is due to launch this month.
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Footballers talk to Bravo
Bravo has commissioned a video diary show for an access-all-areas look into a week in the lives of two Premiership footballers.
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Five schedules Beckham documentary
Startling revelations are promised in a Five documentary about Victoria Beckham. Sham Sandhu, controller of pop features and special events for Five, has commissioned indie Vascha to produce the 60-minute show, which will feature archive footage and interviews and is pencilled in for October. Dave Hills will produce and direct.
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Fremantle to sell BBC's Fingersmith
Fingersmith , the BBC's forthcoming lesbian-themed drama from the author of Tipping the Velvet , is to be sold worldwide by Fremantle International Distribution. The 3 x 60-minute historical drama is based on Sarah Waters' third novel and is due to air on BBC1 in ...
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BBC Prime to launch on French satellite
Entertainment channel BBC Prime is to boost its presence in France by launching on pay-TV platform Canalsatellite. It will begin broadcasting to Canalsatellite's 2.8 million subscribers this month, taking BBC Prime's total reach across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to 19 million. The schedule includes BBC staples such as ...
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Inside soap awards will be a scream
Scream Films has been commissioned by Living TV to produce its coverage of the Inside Soap Awards. The 60-minute compendium of highlights will air at the end of the month, presented by Living TV regulars Richard Arnold, Alison Slade and Angela Buttolph. It is the ...
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UKTV to air first-time buyers weekend
Reef Television has been commissioned by UKTV Style to follow six prospective home-owners as they attempt to get on the property ladder. The series of 30-minute and 60-minute programmes will form part of a First Time Buyers Weekend on UKTV Style. Nick Thorogood, UKTV's outgoing head of lifestyle, has ordered ...
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Sky One to air new Simpsons every week
Sky One is to screen a brand new episode of The Simpsons every week from the autumn in a bid to capitalise on a major advertising campaign pushing the animated show on Channel 4.
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CBBC to adapt adventure yarn
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale Kidnapped is to be dramatised with an all-star cast as part of a raft of new CBBC dramas.
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ITV orders drama about hangman Pierrepoint
ITV looks set to commission a one-off drama telling the story of one of Britain's last hangmen, Albert Pierrepoint, who executed Ruth Ellis along with around 400 other people.
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C4 orders eighth Scrapheap Challenge
Channel 4 has ordered another series of Scrapheap Challenge from RDF Media before the latest series, which airs this month, has even gone out. C4 head of science Simon Andreae has just commissioned series eight of the popular format, which will be broadcast next year. ...
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C4 unveils autumn
Channel 4 this week unveiled its autumn headed by sex slavery drama Sex Traffic and homegrown comedies Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , a Phoenix Nights spin-off, and Green ...