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C4 extends celebrity Big Brother show
Celebrity Big Brother will be returning to Channel 4 for a third series early next year. After the success of Big Brother 5 this summer, its celebrity spin-off has been stretched from 10 days to two weeks and will feature eight celebrity housemates instead of ...
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S4C Takes a second trip up the Aisle
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned a second run of wedding-themed format Y Briodas Fawr. It will again see six Welsh celebrities organise a real wedding and pitch in by baking the cake, taking the photos and playing the organ during the service. S4C commissioning ...
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BBC1 orders second New Tricks series
Indie Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a second series of BBC1 crime drama New Tricks. The new run has been extended to 8 x 60-minute episodes following the success of the original 6 x 60-minutes series, which pulled in about 8 ...
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NewsWife Swap duo to run B&B for C4
Channel 4 is giving Wife Swap star Lizzy Bardsley another shot at screen fame - this time as the landlady of a seaside bed and breakfast.
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BBC boosts animation with Aardman order
The BBC has commissioned Aardman to make a 40-part spin-off to Wallace and Gromit in a bid to meet its commitment to invest in UK animation.
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Five to screen major ops
Five is set to screen major medical operations such as open-heart surgery in a bid to build on the success of Cosmetic Surgery Live.
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Norway picks up fremantle formats
Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...
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Format focus: the immortals
In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.
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Sky One orders Easycruise show
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.
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Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc
Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...
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Granada International in wildlife deal
Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...
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Hunniford returns with celeb homes series
Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.
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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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Gamer.tv to produce new bravo series
Bravo has commissioned a new series for video games players to replace long-running series Gamepad. Dominik Diamond will host 20 x 30-minute series When Games Attack , which will be made by indie Gamer.tv and shown this autumn. The ...
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BBC signs Lancashire to play Cannings
Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a BBC1 docu-drama. Cherished will be based on the case of Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her children and spent two years in prison ...
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Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV
Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.
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I'd do anything to be remade for Romania
BBC1 Saturday night show I'd Do Anything is be remade for Romanian audiences. Distraction Formats has brokered the deal with Prima TV for the TWI-owned format that challenges people to face their worst fears to win a prize for a loved one. The format has ...
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Fox's FX picks up action sports docs
Fox-owned FX's vice-president of broadcasting and marketing, Jason Thorp, has bought three action sports and adventure documentaries from indie Black Diamond. They are surfing documentaries Step in Liquid and The Endless Summer and Chlorine , ...
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C4 orders refugee doc from insight
Indie Insight News Television has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a documentary about refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. A co-production with the Discovery Channel, Living with Refugees follows journalist Sorious Samura in eastern Chad as he travels with families forced to ...
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League of Gentlemen writer is signed for new BBC3 comedy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the writer of The League of Gentlemen.