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Challenge gambles on Poker series
Challenge, the Flextech-owned games entertainment channel, has acquired exclusive TV rights to the Pacific Poker UK Open. The 22 x 120-minute series will feature 108 players competing for£630,000. Produced by indie Matchroom, the series will air throughout September.
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Yentob to paint a picture of Britain
Alan Yentob, the BBC's director of drama, entertainment and children's, is set to present another series for the corporation. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has asked Yentob - who fronts the Imagine arts strand - to host the forthcoming 6 x 60-minute A Picture of Britain ...
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BBC's wide eye travels to middle east
Pre-school BBC co-production Wide Eye is to be shown throughout the Middle East following a deal between rights owner Abbey Home Media and TV1 International. The 26 x 10-minute series, made by King Rollo Films, could be screened in up to 16 countries throughout the region including Egypt, Saudi Arabia ...
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Disney to launch Freeview channel in autumn
Disney has announced an autumn launch for its long-delayed Freeview entertainment channel, which it plans to call ABC1 after its US network ABC, write Naomi Rovnick and Michael Rosser.
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Stein to barge around coast of france
Celebrity chef Rick Stein is to travel on a barge around the coast of France for his next BBC2 culinary series. Rick Stein's Between Two Seas, through indie Denham Productions, will either be eight or 10 episodes long. It will be produced and directed by David Pritchard and executive produced ...
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Wall to Wall turns to agatha christie
Indie Wall to Wall is to follow up its George Orwell - a Life in Pictures BBC2 special by turning its gaze on novelist Agatha Christie. The 90-minute Agatha Christie - a Life in Pictures will look at the Poirot creator's life and work and be based on her autobiography. ...
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IWC adds colour to the Russian revolution
IWC Media is to team up with a host of international broadcasters to produce a documentary about the Russian revolution, which includes new coloured prints of classic archive footage, writes Glen Mutel.
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Endemol UK acquires rights to the farm
Endemol UK has picked up the rights to long-running Swedish reality format The Farm. The show, created by format house Strix, sends six women and six men to a remote part of the country where they have to fend for themselves on a 19th century farm for 10 weeks. The ...
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C4 doc set to examine UK Asian stereotypes
Indie Juniper is making a two-hour peaktime documentary for Channel 4 that it hopes will dispel the stereotypes associated with British Asians, writes Glen Mutel.
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Ten Alps pays£1m for indie Blakeway
Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps Communications, said he is now looking to buy a factual entertainment or drama producer following his indie's£1m acquisition of documentary specialist Blakeway Productions.
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NewsDyke to front C4 doc about his time as DG
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke is to front a film for Channel 4 charting his four years at the corporation.
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C4 doubles Big Brother airtime
Channel 4 has increased its commitment to Big Brother by setting aside almost twice as much terrestrial airtime to the flagship reality show as it did last year.
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Audi to fund two Le Mans shows
Car manufacturer Audi is fully funding two major shows on the Le Mans motor-racing tournament for ITV and Channel 4.
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Five goes live in bid to win kids
Five is venturing into live children's programming on Saturday mornings in a bid to challenge the might of BBC1 and ITV throughout the summer.
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NewsSewell charts history of the Roller
Five has drafted in art critic Brian Sewell to front another documentary, this time on luxury car manufacturer Rolls Royce.
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ITV snares Ozzy
Rock family the Osbournes, who starred in the eponymous MTV and Channel 4 hit reality series, have been signed up by ITV to appear in the next outing of its An Audience with? strand as part of a brace of new Saturday night entertainment shows.
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Granada wild to revisit predator series
Bristol-based Granada Wild has been commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to make four more instalments for the Built for the Kill series. Subjects to be covered in the 4 x 60-minute series are cats, snakes, sharks and raptors. Andrew Buchanan will executive produce and ...
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Sky One launches transvestite reality gameshow
Sky One is to follow its reality show There's Something About Miriam with a gameshow in which men compete against each other to be the most convincing women.
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Trouble searches for dance idol
Flextech teen channel Trouble has ordered its biggest ever commission with a£1m Pop Idol -style dance talent show to be made by Back to Reality producer Princess Productions.
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Life of grime relocates to New York City
BBC1 docu-soap A Life of Grime , about the work of environmental health officers, is to relocate to New York. The new 3 x 60-minute run, a co-production between BBC Bristol and Discovery, is due to air in the autumn. It is executive produced by ...