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C4I sales success in France and Germany
Channel 4 International has made several documentary sales into France and Germany. French broadcaster M6 has bought six titles, including The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart from Darlow Smithson Productions, Lock up Your Songs from Firecracker Films, ...
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C4 probes 9/11 terror attacks
Conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks will be put to the test in an investigative documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsFive and Paramount pair up for comedy
Five has teamed up with Paramount Comedy to launch a co-production initiative aimed at creating comedy hits like The Office.
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NewsBig Ron racism film kicks off his comeback
Ron Atkinson, the flamboyant ex football pundit who trashed his career after making an offensive remark towards a black player, is to work out if he really is a racist with a peaktime film for BBC1.
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Endemol handed Five reality brief
Five has enlisted Big Brother producer Endemol to help it take another shot at the reality genre.
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Face ops revisited
Five has become the latest broadcaster to turn its attention to face rebuilding, with a two-part series examining the trauma associated with the operation.
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Feted director returns with C4 cocaine doc
The director of The Last Peasants - Channel 4's hard-hitting documentary on the struggles of Romanian migrants - is making a three-part observational documentary on the South American drug trade.
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Skinner returns for eighth series
The Frank Skinner Show is set to return this autumn to ITV1 for an eighth series and for the first time the show will feature musical performances from top acts in the 12 x 50-minute run. The Avalon Television production will be executive produced ...
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NewsC4 books Countdown til 2009
Channel 4 has re-commissioned its long-running daytime quiz show Countdown for another five years.
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NewsDiet Trials lead BBC German push
BBC Worldwide is to co-produce a new series of slimming reality series Diet Trials for German audiences.
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NewsITV orders new thrillers
ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department.
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Whistledown profiles Thackray's life
Whistledown Productions has secured three commissions for BBC Radio 4. That Jake Thackray Thing, a 30-minute programme profiling the folk singer/songwriter (pictured) who died last year, is due to air towards the end of 2005. The producer is David Prest. ...
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ITV watches naturists at work
Naturists of all professions are to star in an ITV primetime show called Going to Work Naked. Indie Hanharan Media, which is making the show, claimed to have found people doing a diverse range of jobs who can work unclothed. Ordered by ITV controller ...
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Rights for lion shows go to screentime
Screentime Partners has picked up the rights to a brace of entertainment formats from Lion Television. The indie, r...
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Dee takes lead in Simon Nye film for ITV
Jack Dee is to star in an ITV film penned by Men Behaving Badlycreator Simon Nye, writes Michael Rosser.
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Italian prospect of straight dates
Indie Prospect Pictures has sold the format of reality show ...
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Spain cooks up own Takeaway
Spain is to be the first country to show its own version of hit ITV show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
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Commissioner's Q&A : Gary Shoefield
GSB director of programming has a maximum of£10,000 an hour to spend so has little chance of realising his dream of poaching The Sopranos, but he can afford another Sold in 60 Seconds
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Living takes celebrity snaps
Living TV has commissioned new indie Thumbs Up to make a 20 x 30-minute reality show about photographers who snap celebrities for a living.