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Basil brush heading for the US
Entertainment Rights is hunting for partners to bring children's character Basil Brush to US audiences. The company, which also owns the rights to Postman Pat, said the popular fox puppet would probably remain English with a supporting US cast. Entertainment Rights is meeting with studios and is unlikely to produce ...
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Reef goes bargain spotting in France
Reef Television has been commissioned to make a daytime show for BBC2 called Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting , in which contestants shop for antiques in the flea markets of southern France before trying to sell them in the UK for a profit. It will ...
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Tiger Aspect wins first radio orders
Tiger Aspect, the independent production company behind Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley , has picked up its first radio commissions.
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Hotbed wins two BBC arts orders
Hotbed Media has been commissioned to make a new series of its successful BBC1 arts show Star Portraits with Rolf Harris. The programme has been commissioned for next spring by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and will be executive produced by Johannah Dyer and series ...
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BBC commissions more accidents
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has recommissioned Accidents Can Happen , which looks at what happens after disasters strike people's homes. The 20 x 60-minute series, which will again be presented by former EastEnders actress Nadia Sawalha, will look ...
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CS&W produces teen court for C4
Scottish indie Caledonia Sterne and Wyld (CS&W) has won its first commission from its new London office with a Channel 4 show in which juveniles who have committed minor offences are tried and sentenced by fellow teenagers.
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Flora funds IWC to make C4 health show
Indie IWC Media has entered the world of advertiser-funded programmes for the first time with a five-part series for Channel 4.
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BBC3 to stage live opera in railway station
BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.
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Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing
Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...
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NewsFive explores dark side of Richard & Judy
Five is to reveal the 'darker side' of rival Channel 4's biggest stars with exposés of daytime stars Richard and Judy and TV chef Gordon Ramsay.
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NewsBBC's ballroom dancers poised to battle Bart
The BBC is to pit a nightly spin-off of its popular Strictly Come Dancing series against The Simpsons when the animation transfers to Channel 4.
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Watson uses drinking film to slate reality TV
Veteran documentary-maker Paul Watson is to make his first film for the BBC in a decade with a landmark special on binge drinking which he will also use as a retort to reality television.
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Olympic medal winners sign up for Superstars
Fresh from bringing home a gold medal as part of Britain's coxless four, Olympic rower James Cracknell has been handed a new challenge - winning BBC1's Superstars.
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E4 pits old comics against new
Endemol UK will attempt to see whether old-time comic heroes are better than the new breed with its first commission out of its new Bristol Studios offshoot.
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NewsKeating boosts BBC2 docs
Documentaries on BBC2 are to get a 'significant' boost following the agreement of a new strategy for the genre by controller Roly Keating.
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NewsBBC4 to feature atheism series
BBC4 unveiled an autumn schedule led by highbrow series on atheism and the power of light this morning (Wednesday).
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High Point goes into production
Drama distributor High Point Films and Television is to move into original production for the first time with the creation of an in-house division.
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Frost to do occasional interview series
The BBC has commissioned an occasional interview series featuring Sir David Frost after confirming his long-running Sunday morning show Breakfast with Frost is to end. The Frost Interview - part of a new three-year deal signed by Frost with the ...
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First job for Total Eclipse
TOTAL Eclipse Television, the new indie set up by former Carlton controller of children's David Mercer, has won its first commission, with a Christmas show for the BBC.
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Peter Duncan takes son on trip for Five
Former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan has been commissioned by Five to make a travel documentary starring his son. Five controller of children's programmes Nick Wilson has ordered the 30-minute documentary Arthur's Trip from indie Here's One I Made Earlier. ...