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BBC orders terror simulation series
BBC2 has commissioned a topical entertainment series in which members of the public will take on the role of government ministers and react to simulated major national disasters such as a bomb on the tube, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsC4 recommissions Peep Show
Peep Show , the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy from Objective Productions, has been re-commissioned for a second series.
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NewsCelebdaq put on critical list
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has given his channel's high profile celebrity stock-trading show Celebdaq two weeks to prove itself or face the axe.
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Trevor's World of Sport set for revival
BBC2 controller Jane Root could revive Hat Trick's BBC1 sitcom Trevor's World of Sport if a forthcoming repeat of the series performs well. The comedy has been greenlit for a repeat on BBC2 and a new series has been pitched to Root. Writer Andy Hamilton ...
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Jimmy's key to ITV1 religion
Yorkshire Television (YTV) is reviving its hospital docu-soap Jimmy' s as a key part of ITV1's religious output.
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NewsSky close to deal with men to air Miriam
Sky One is making plans to show its controversial reality show, in which a transsexual man 'tricks' a group of single men into thinking he is female.
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Most Haunted spins off two
Living TV is set to build on the success of its ratings banker Most Haunted by launching a brace of spin-off shows.
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ITV dramatises life of Hurricane Higgins
Carlton is set to make a two-hour ITV drama based on the career of snooker wild man Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Producers are currently choosing a writer for the drama, which will be based on the Irishman's life as described in the unauthorised biography of him by Bill Borrows. Carlton's James ...
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Tiger claws recommission for Teachers
Tiger Aspect has scored recommissions for Channel 4 high-school comedy drama Teachers and BBC crime drama Murphy's Law. Teachers will return for a fourth 9 x 60-minute series. Jane Fallon will executive produce while ...
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The Lab unveils capital shows
The Lab has landed four commissions for LWT including a history series on the second world war.
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BBC offers fresh take on history
Nick Knowles, the presenter of BBC1's long-running home improvement show DIY SOS , has written a six-part comedy history series for BBC1 in which he travels back in time to meet notorious figures such as Dick Turpin.
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BBC nets Reef's Bargain Hunt gameshow
Indie Reef Television has been commissioned by BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman to make a 5 x 60-minute series for BBC2 about buying antiques abroad . Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting , which will be presented by antiques dealer Chris Gower, will mix hunting ...
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Lion builds on successful Bad Behaviour
Lion Television is to revisit the subject of badly behaved children for a Channel 4 series.
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Avalon brings up third TV burp with Hill
Off-the-wall comic Harry Hill has been lined up by ITV1 to present a third series of his television review show. Avalon Television has been recommissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute series of Harry Hill's TV Burp, which is due to be screened from mid-February. Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday ...
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BBC takes on US' Arrested Development
The BBC has secured the exclusive UK television rights to the acclaimed US comedy Arrested Development from 20th Century Fox TV.
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Channel 4 picks up Britney
Fremantle International Distribution has scored 25 sales for ABC's behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. Channel 4 is among those which will screen Britney Spears: In the Zone , after Fremantle picked up the rights to distribute the 60-minute programme in November. Other European broadcasters ...
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S4C to screen second Fireman Sam series
Animated children's show Fireman Sam is set to return to S4C for another Welsh-language series in 2005. The channel is currently screening the first series of the programme - its first new series since 1994. In addition, the BBC will screen English-language versions of both ...
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NewsBacon format to offer 'biggest TV prize'
TV presenter Richard Bacon is to offer 'one of the biggest prizes in television' as the front man of a new entertainment format from new Birmingham-based indie Your Slice of the Cake.
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NewsRose & Maloney extends to a full series
Company Pictures has been commissioned to make a full series of the ITV1 Sarah Lancashire drama Rose & Maloney.
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BBC2 TO MAKE THREE-PART DIET JUNKIES.
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a third instalment of its... Junkies strand with a look