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RDF international in New Zealand deals
RDF International has signed a series of deals with broadcasters in New Zealand. TVNZ has picked up RDF's BBC2 quiz show Nobody Likes a Smartassplus Hunting the Washington Sniper, Perfect Match USA and Lion TV's new documentary ...
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Electric Sky scores doc deals worldwide
Electric Sky has sold a trio of documentaries to broadcasters around the world, including an investigation into amateur footage of JFK's assassination. The 52-minute programme, Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film, has been licensed to the A&E History Channel, New ...
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ITV commissions fly-on-the-wall docs
ITV controller of news and current affairs Steve Anderson has ordered two fly-on-the-wall documentary series for the spring, following taxi drivers in Manchester and police officers in cities around the UK, writes Paul Revoir.
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CNN signs top journalists for shows
CNN International general manager Rena Golden has lined up two documentary reports from award-winning journalists for its winter schedule. On 6 and 7 December in a 60-minute CNN Our Planet report, global environmental correspondent Gary Strieker visits the island of Madagascar to make Frontline of ...
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Granada and Carlton merge US divisions
Carlton and Granada have unveiled a US division called Granada America, which will be formed by merging the two companies' American production businesses, writes Paul Revoir.
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Fremantle takes Britney special to US
Fremantle International Distribution has picked up the rights to a behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. The 60-minute programme will feature the starlet recording her latest album and rehearsing with dancers. Fremantle has acquired Britney Spears: In the Zonefrom BMG Visual Media for international distribution. ...
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Lion makes bold leap into China
Independent producer Lion TV has linked up with Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television to produce programmes for the Chinese market as well as programming about China for the rest of the world, writes Jane Marlow.
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Blast! doc looks at notorious chancers
Blast! Films, the indie behind Channel 4's award-winning opera The Death of Klinghoffer, is making a series of documentaries for BBC2 tracking the lives of entrepreneurs living on the edge of the law, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC World to be dubbed into Russian
Programmes from BBC World, the corporation's international service, are to be dubbed into Russian as part of a new channel aimed at Russian ex-pats, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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BBC prime lines up TOTP new year show
Entertainment channel BBC Prime will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Top of the Popswith a special New Year's Eve countdown hosted by former Spice Girl Mel C. Over the next two months, viewers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa will vote for their ...
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BBC religion goes for mass appeal
BBC Religion is attempting to appeal to the masses with a new series that asks sports stars, politicians and celebrities such as Pamela Anderson how their faith affects their lives, writes Lisa Campbell.
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Lion looks at the lives of Sex addicts
Lion Television is to explore the pitfalls of sex addiction in a documentary for Five and Discovery Health. Commissioned by Justine Kershaw and Alex Sutherland at Five and Mark Poertner at Discovery Health, Sex Maniawill feature addicts of all ages in a 50-minute programme. They ...
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Maverick wins three from C4
Birmingham-based indie Maverick TV has won three commissions from Channel 4 for next year, including a property show, a programme on premature babies and a makeover series, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Radio 2 rounds up celebs for christmas
BBC Radio 2 has commissioned Wise Buddah to develop three celebrity-fronted programmes for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, comedian Lenny Henry will present a 60-minute tribute to Barry White in Let the Music Play while Simon Mayo will host a two-hour show in which some of ...
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Eamonn Holmes to front ITV1 Xmas show
ITV1 has lined up GMTV front man Eamonn Holmes to present a three-week series of live shows in the run-up to Christmas. The Christmas Showwill feature music, entertainment, lifestyle advice and celebrity guests. Tess Daly will co-host the Carlton show which will air weekdays from ...
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NewsCheeky BBC1 show brings back Monkey
Monkey, the knitted simian mascot of the ill-fated ITV Digital, is set to take on ITV stalwarts Ant and Dec by fronting his own star-studded family entertainment show on the BBC.
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ITV1 sends single women into bush
ITV1 is set to come to the aid of lonely farmers living in the Australian bush with a£1.2m dating show in which British women travel down under in search of potential husbands in the Outback.
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Living taps in to live psychic show
Living TV is bulking up its paranormal output with a daily live teatime psychic show in which mediums will work with celebrities to try and contact the dead.
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NewsHolmes fronts ITV1 live Xmas show
ITV1 has lined up GMTV front-man Eamonn Holmes to present a three week series of live shows in the run up to Christmas.
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Landrover on H&L
Discovery Home & Leisure channel director Paul Welling has commissioned independent producer i2i to produce a 15 x 30-minute show covering the restoration of an early series one Landrover, which was made between 1948 and 1958. A Landrover is Born, the seventh in Discovery Home & Leisure's ? ...