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BBC1 rebuilds houses after acts of God
BBC1 has commissioned a new twist on the home makeover show, with a series following families' attempts to rebuild homes destroyed by floods, fires and even runaway coaches.
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BBC3 puts parenting in the spotlight
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a second series of parenting show Who Rules the Roost as part of a season on the subject. The 10 x 60-minute Ricochet-made series, which is due to air later in the year, asks working parents to stay at ...
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ITN analyses Iraqi handover for C4 news
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN to make a quick-turnaround two-hour news special devoted to the 30 June handover of sovereignty in Iraq. Iraq: Counting the Cost , presented by Jon Snow, will be broadcast between 19.00 and 21.00 on 28 June. C4 claims the show ...
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ITV to grant Harry Hill an audience
ITV is poised to commission a new An Audience with ? starring big-collared funny-man Harry Hill. The show from Granada's entertainment division is likely to go out in the autumn to kick-start the new series of Harry Hill's TV Burp ...
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Dream Home back for sixth time on TVNZ
Distraction's Dream Home format has been licensed for a sixth series to TVNZ in New Zealand and has gone into production for a second series with French Canada's TVA. The format, in which two young families renovate neighbouring derelict properties over nine weeks, has done ...
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BBC puts footage sales into Motion
The BBC has launched a new web-based clip sales service which it hopes will double the amount of revenue it gets from selling footage such as The Blue Planet within four years.
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Endemol sells Big Brother to Croatia
Endemol has inked a deal with the newly launched RTL Televizija to air Big Brother in Croatia. It is the first time the Dutch production company has sold a programme format to the east European country. Big Brother, which has now been sold to a ...
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Canada is next to show The Bill
Canada will become the 43rd country to screen ITV1 police drama The Billafter it was sold to cable channel Showcase
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Firecracker takes on world's strongest boy
Firecracker Films has tied down a trio of commissions, including The World's Strongest Boy for Five..
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UK's galleon invests in us toon business
UK animation company Galleon has taken a 50% stake in a Hollywood animation company set up by ex-Disney producer Chris Henderson. J Christopher Entertainment is made up of numerous high-profile US animators based in Los Angeles. Galleon, set up by Shoe People creator Jim Driscoll, is putting in half the ...
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TWI keeps contract to distribute MUTV
TWI has been re-appointed to the contract to distribute Manchester United Television (MUTV) across the world for the next three years. In the last contract TWI secured deals in the Middle East, Far East, Europe and Africa and there are established deals in New York and Scandinavia.
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Prospect watches diet for discovery
Indie Prospect Pictures has been commissioned by Discovery Health to make a dieting show for January next year. The 15 x 30-minute The A-List Dietwith the Food Doctor , ordered by commissioning editor Louissa Grange, will see nutritionist to the stars Ian Marber give 15 ...
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Mandrill wins discovery health orders
York-based indie Mandrill Television has landed a raft of commissions for Discovery Health, including Body Builders - a series set for autumn which trains novices to take part in their first bodybuilding competition. For next year, Sex Change will follow ...
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Format Focus: Nosy Neighbours
br>Not another property programme but a new spin on the wind-up show, this time with neighbours from hell.
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Mipcom names personality of the year
Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five majority shareholder RTL, is to be given the personality of the year award at this year's Mipcom TV market. Zeiler, a former Austrian government press officer who has headed the German media group since March 2003, will pick up the award at a gala ...
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NewsC4 experiment tests steroids on athletes
Athletes are to be injected with anabolic steroids for a Channel 4 programme that will attempt to measure the impact of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Popstars back in fresh guise
Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.
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BBC joins Russia for Space Race
The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.
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NewsPoliakoff scripts three films for BBC
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the sweeping history of the 1980s and 90s.
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.