All Commissioning articles – Page 689
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NewsMurphy seeks therapy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has said he wants to create a new portfolio of programmes dealing with issues such as therapy and bereavement as he seeks to build his channel's factual output.
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NewsReality drives Five autumn line-up
Five is to give reality and drama another shot in its new autumn schedule to sit alongside its staple of celebrity, arts and property shows.
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NewsSky One takes on C4 in battle of Springfield
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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Skinner's Shane taken by Paramount
Paramount Comedy 2 has acquired Frank Skinner's ITV1 sitcom Shane and will screen the first series next year. The 7 x 30-minute comedy series, produced by Avalon Television, features Skinner as a wise-cracking minicab driver whose career and family life is slowly disintegrating. It will ...
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Thames signs up talent for ITV sitcom
Thames TV has assembled an established team of comedy talent including the writer of Murder Most Horrid for a new ITV1 sitcom.
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UKTV on history Trail
UKTV History has commissioned a primetime DIY history series which will show viewers how to unlock local secrets by looking around the features of their area.
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Five takes wildlife, science for kids
Five has recommissioned two of its most popular children's series for the weekend Shake strand. Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson has ordered a second 13 x 30-minute series of Michaela's Wild Challenge from Two Hand Productions. The series, ...
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Doc follows football trainees
BBC Radio Five Live is to launch a new documentary series tracking the ambitious students of Birmingham City's football academy.
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ITV's UEFA cup coup
ITV has signed an agreement with Newcastle United to show exclusive live coverage of the team's Uefa Cup home games this season. The games will air on either ITV1 or ITV2 when the competition begins with two first-round matches from 16 September. ITV has rights for all the home games ...
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Commissioners Q&A
Angharad Jones S4C's commissioning editor, drama and film is looking for plot-driven stories, reckons her channel could do with more humour and is excited by a choir drama filled with songs and sex
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The Contender fails to floor rival Champ
Mark Burnett, the British producer behind forthcoming NBC boxing show The Contender , has lost his first bid to block a rival show airing on Fox.
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More planet rock for Biography channel
The Biography Channel has picked up a further batch of Planet Rock profiles for a forthcoming music month. The deal, with Ireland-based indie Monster Distributes, will see profiles on musicians such as Moby, Air and Beyoncé air in October. The batch of 14 episodes marks ...
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Challenge bets on US co-pros
CHALLENGE, the Flextech entertainment channel, has signed a multimillion-pound co-production deal with new US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).
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BBC Gnome rights go to Southern Star
Southern Star International has secured the international distribution rights to new BBC pre-school animated show Gordon the Garden Gnome. The 52 x 11-minute series, which follows the daily adventures of a garden gnome and his friends, is produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment and narrated ...
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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 ...