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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ITV2 lines up Bad Girls special
ITV2 has commissioned a 60-minute Bad Girls spin-off from Shed Productions to air this autumn. The behind-the-scenes special has been commissioned by Daniela Neumann and will be produced by Jodie Reynolds with Brian Park as executive producer. The order follows a ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Hilary Bell
The Channel 4 commissioning editor - documentaries is looking for ratings winners for the primetime 21.00 slot, possibly along the lines of the programme she is most proud of during her tenure at the channel: Faking It
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Indies chalk up daytime orders
Two indies have secured footholds in ITV1 and BBC1's daytime schedules.
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CNN presents recalls Warsaw uprising
CNN International has lined up 60-minute documentary Warsaw Rising: the Forgotten Soldiers of World War II. The film, which tells the story of the 63-day Warsaw uprising during the city's occupation by the Nazis, is being made by the channel's CNN Presents team, with ...
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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.
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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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NewsGilligan makes TV debut with C4 doc
Andrew Gilligan, whose controversial Today report plunged the BBC into the worst crisis in its history, is to return to broadcasting with a programme for Channel 4 on Britain's intelligence services.