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S4C drama to celebrate Cardiff city
The director of British gangster film Rancid Aluminium is making a£1.5m Cardiff-based drama series for Welsh channel S4C, writes Michael Rosser.
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Objective makes over E4 dating show
Objective Productions is to revamp its E4 dating show Five Go Dating and will deliver 30 episodes of a new-look programme. Called Four Go Dating, the new run will place four men and four women in two£1.5m loft apartments in London. The two groups will ...
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ITV commissions 2DTV for fifth run
ITV has commissioned another series of satirical animation show 2DTV from the indie of the same name. The 6 x 30-minute series, ordered by ITV controller of comedy Sioned Wiliam, will feature new celebrities such as rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson. The series, which is due ...
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BBC1 plans issue focused dramas
BBC1 has commissioned a factual drama exploring what would happen if London was attacked by a 'dirty' radiological bomb, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC1 banks on Spicer for daytime show
Self-made millionaire and TV antiques expert Lorne Spicer will attempt to boost the coffers of families around the country in a new daytime show for BBC1, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 hunts for new breakfast format
Channel 4 director of television Kevin Lygo is on the hunt for a new daily live breakfast show and hopes to get it on air by the autumn.
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NewsMiriam prepares to bare all in doc about 'her' life
Brighter Pictures has been commissioned to make a documentary about Miriam - the star of its controversial Sky One reality series There's Something About Miriam.
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Hislop comedy wins peak slot
My Dad's the Prime Minister , the BBC1 comedy written by Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, has been commissioned for a second run and promoted to a peaktime slot.
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NewsFive opts for morning gameshows
Five will not be commissioning a replacement show when it axes its morning chatshow The Terry and Gaby Show next month.
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NewsBBC commissions gay pensioner drama
A drama about two men in their early 60s who fall in love with each other is set to form the centre-piece of a BBC season on age.
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NewsWark Clements set for footie coup
Scottish indie Wark Clements will co-produce 38 Scottish Premier League matches if its production partner Setanta Sports succeeds in securing exclusive rights to the games next week.
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NewsITV orders Hitler in Colour
TWI is lining up another installment of its ITV1 In Colour strand, with a 90-minute film marking the 60th anniversary of Hitler's death.
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Newsnight special looks at Iraq war
Jeremy Paxman is to front a 90-minute primetime Newsnight special on the reasons why Britain went to war in Iraq. Prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to appear on the programme, which will mark the first anniversary of the war. It will look at ...
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Lion to produce more hammer shows
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show Homes Under the Hammer for BBC1. They are scheduled for broadcast this autumn, with a further 20 episodes for spring 2005. Melanie Eriksen will executive produce.
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...
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Lion makes gay format for Fox
Lion Television has strengthened its foothold in the US with a major new commission for the Fox network.
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Mosaic to follow olympic fortunes
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for BBC4. Nick Fraser, commissioning editor of BBC4 strand Storyville, has ordered Athens Through the Hoops for broadcast in the week before the Games start in August. The programme will investigate how the Olympics are ...
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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NewsMiriam gets February date on Sky
Sky One will finally screen its controversial reality show There Something About Miriam later this month after paying the show's six contestants£125,000 each. The six claimed they were tricked into competing for the affections of a dark-haired 'woman' called Miriam, unaware that she was actually ...
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Sky One co-pro deal
Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel in the US have joined forces to make a 13 x 60-minute series of the 1980s sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica. Filming is due to start next month in Vancouver with David Eick as executive producer. The show expected ...