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RDF wins two travel shows from five
Five controller, features and entertainment Ben Frow has ordered two travel shows from RDF Media - Great Escapes and The World's 20 Best?. The shows are due to air next month and were both executive produced by RDF chief executive David Frank
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Imago inks Extreme entertainment deal
Indie Imago Productions has signed a joint-venture deal with Extreme Entertainment to represent its new projects around the world. The deal is intended to generate
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Rogue trader to play celebrity poker
Flextech channel Challenge has lined up rogue trader Nick Leeson, Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray and Tom Parker Bowles for a new series of Celebrity Poker Club. Indie Presentable is making the 9 x 90-minute series, which will air from the end of June. The executive producers for Challenge are ...
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Celador racks up global format sales
Celador International has secured a raft of sales for three of its key formats. Talking Telephone Numbers has been picked up by producer TV Prava, which will produce a local series for RTS. The Brainiest format has been licensed to TVN in Poland for 10 x 60-minute series, ...
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Bravo buys Guns 'n' Roses inspired sitcom
Bravo has bought an animated sitcom staring guitarist Slash from rock band Guns 'n' Roses. The 8 x 30-minute Kid Notorious , from Comedy Central, is voiced by Robert Evans, the Hollywood producer behind The Godfather, Chinatown and ...
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Lads to battle it out
Indie Prospect Pictures has been commissioned to make a live 180-minute special for UKTV Gold about whether Terry and Bob from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? or Gary and Tony from Men Behaving Badly were the 'best lads ...
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Ancient Egyptians on route to Japan
Ancient egyptians, Wall to Wall's award-winning£6m historical documentary series, is set to be screened in Japan, writes Colin Robertson.
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Five factual series to analyse rare diseases
Five is to launch a factual strand focusing on unusual diseases and has commissioned Lion Television and Landmark Films to produce the first batch, writes Michael Rosser.
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Discovery orders al-qaida documentary
October Films has been commissioned by Discovery Europe to produce a fast turnaround documentary on the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid. The one-hour special will examine the events of 11 March in which a suspected al-Qaida bomb killed more than 190 train passengers. Relatives of victims and investigators will be ...
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Latin america to air without prejudice?
Channel 4 gameshow Without Prejudice is to be remade for viewers in Latin America. The 12 Yard format has been sold by Screentime Partners to Buenos Aires-based producer RGB Entertainment. The hidden-camera format, which gives a cash prize to members of the public based ...
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S4C rejigs team in bid to boost co-pros
Welsh channel S4C has reshuffled its international team as part of a bid to shift its focus onto co-productions, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 commissions shaken babies film
Channel 4 editor, education and science Simon Dickson has ordered a 60-minute documentary on the recent controversy surrounding shaken babies from Films of Record in association with Pillarbox. The working-titled Beyond Reasonable Doubt will be directed by Juliet Murray and Clarissa Kindred and executive produced by Roger Graef and Clare ...
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3DD wins global rights to aids benefit
3DD Entertainment has picked up the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to Nelson Mandela's Aids awareness concert, 46664: The Message. The concert, held in Cape Town in November, was produced by Endemol UK's Initial TV and has been packaged as an hour-long TV special. It features performances from musicians such as ...
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NewsITV turns to Cowell to fill Pop Idol slot
ITV has called in Simon Cowell's new independent production company, Simcow, to make a Saturday night replacement for Pop Idol.
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NewsLiving TV sends divorced couples on honeymoon
Divorced couples are to be flown back to their honeymoon destination to consider where it all went wrong for a Living TV series.
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NewsBBC reality show to look at family life
The BBC is developing one of its most ambitious shows ever - a docu-soap with Big Brother -style cameras installed in family homes throughout Britain.
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ITV puts£20m into Midsomer
ITV has made another long-order commission, taking 16 episodes of Bentley Productions' detective series Midsomer Murders in a deal worth around£20m.
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Fake lottery winners run amok in latest Sky show
Sky One is continuing the trend for cruel reality shows with a series in which members of the public dupe friends and families into believing they've won the lottery.
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William and Mary return for third time
ITV1 has commissioned a third series of hit romantic drama William and Mary , starring Martin Clunes and Julie Graham, from Granada London. The new six-part order comes after the second series, which finishes on 11 April, continued the ratings success of its first outing, ...
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UKTV Food puts Wozza special on menu
Anthony Worrall Thompson, host of BBC2 cooking strand Saturday Kitchen , is to be the subject of a UKTV Food documentary series.