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Zig Zag lands Duracell-funded series deal
ADVERTISER-funded programming specialists Broadcast Marketing has appointed Zig Zag Productions to make the third series of a Duracell-funded science series.
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Miles to debut deals at Mipcom
Sally Miles, the former chief operating officer of September Films, has unveiled the formats and indies she will be pushing at Mipcom with her new venture ID Distribution.
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Indie nets satirical format
Hat Trick Productions, the indie behind Have I Got News for You , has picked up the format to Finnish satirical 'mockumentary' The ? Show.
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The Stables goes to TV Ontario
BBC Worldwide has sold children's docusoap The Stables to Canadian broadcaster TV Ontario. The 10 x 27-minute series, made by Prism Entertainment, follows the lives of a group of inner-city children who meet at charity-run stables in Newcastle.
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Sky Travel nets Husband Hunt
Sky Travel has picked up Touchdown TV's reality series Husband Hunt for its autumn schedule. The New Zealand-based show takes six women into a farming community where they hunt the man of their dreams. The 2 x 60-minute show will air as part of a ...
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Miami Slice picked up by networks
September International has made a series of new sales of Sky One's plastic surgery reality series Miami Slice. The 6 x 60-minute series, made by September Films, has been licensed to Australia's Nine Network, RLT in the Netherlands and M-Net in South Africa. It ...
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NewsTalkback hit goes continental
France and Denmark are due for a domestic clean-up as Channel 4's hit grime-busting show How Clean Is Your House? is lined up for local adaptations.
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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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C4 revamps US gay dating flop
Gay-themed dating reality format Playing it Straight , axed in the US after just three episodes, is being remade for Channel 4.
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C4 renews ITN deal
Channel 4 has renewed ITN's contract to produce its midday news show for another two years. ITN will now supply C4's half-hour lunchtime newscast until the end of 2006, to coincide with the expiry of its existing contract for the channel's evening news show. The two contracts will now run ...
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C4 devotes season to Robbie Williams
Channel 4 has lined up a Robbie Williams season featuring an original documentary and a studio interview with the pop star. C4's editor for youth strand T4 and music, Neil McCallum, has commissioned an hour-long documentary entitled Robbie Williams: The Show Off Must Go On for primetime transmission in October. ...
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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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Dalziel and Pascoe Gets another run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a further run of long-running detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. The series, which will air as four batches of 2 x 60-minute episodes from February, will again star Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the two detectives. It ...
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Shed sets up kids and factual arms
Footballers' Wives ' producer Shed Productions has set up a kids division after securing a commission for a seven-part thriller for CiTV.
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Shameless picks up Prix Italia award
Shameless , Channel 4's comedy drama about a dysfunctional Manchester family, has been named best drama series at the Prix Italia Awards, while the BBC has won four awards.
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ITN Factual handed documentary brief
ITN Factual has been commissioned by A&E Network in the US to make six documentaries for the Biography Channel.
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Format Focus: How to Build Your Love
This dating and DIY hybrid follows 15 singles as they go all out to build a house and find love in the process, writes Michael Rosser
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UK indie gets Canada extreme-sports job
Indie and distributor Black Diamond Films has been commissioned to produce two extreme-sports series by Global Broadcasting in Canada. The cable broadcaster X-Treme Channel will air bike sports series Spoked and skating series Concrete and Chaos , Both series will be 65 x 30-minutes long.
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Lion to catch a thief format goes Dutch
Lion TV format To Catch a Thief is to be remade for Dutch audiences. The BBC1 daytime show, in which two ex-convicts burgle a house on camera to expose its security deficiencies, will be reworked by indie Palazzina TV Productions in the Netherlands. The show is believed to be set ...