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S4C reorganises
S4C has restructured its commissioning department. Factual output will be separated into three areas: co-productions, headed by Cenwyn Edwards; factual entertainment, headed by Nici Beech; and a new yet to be filled post for general factual. Commissioning editor, light entertainment Huw Chiswell is leaving and will not be replaced. Meirion ...
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BBC and C4 scrap over the apprentice
The BBC and Channel 4 are in a bidding war to screen a local version of hit US reality show The Apprentice. The show, in which 16 candidates compete to win a job and six-figure salary with a high-profile businessman, will be made by ...
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Noddy's market leaps by 95 million
Noddy owner Chorion has secured a deal with a Chinese academic publisher, which will take the Enid Blyton character into the world's most populous nation. Chorion has awarded the Beijing-based Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) the mainland Chinese rights for the new CGI animated series Make Way for ...
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Tigress restructures after securing orders
Tigress Productions has restructured its senior management team after securing over 40 hours of commissions, writes Glen Mutel.
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Alastair Campbell to front five show
Indie Liberty Bell has been commissioned by Five senior programme controller Chris Shaw to make a six-part series in which former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell interviews people from the world of politics, business and sport. The Newcastle-based indie has also secured a one-off documentary order from Shaw ...
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Another Hustle
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a second series of con-artist drama Hustle before the first run has finished. The Kudos-produced series received mixed reviews when it debuted last month and picked up an average of 6.2 million viewers for its first three episodes. The ...
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Austria's orf picks up three uk docs
Channel 4 International has sold three one-off documentaries to Austria's ORF. The broadcaster has picked up Child Trafficking, made by Hardcash Productions, Inside the Mind of Suicide Bombers, produced by October Films, and Dying to be Apart, from ITN Factual.
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ITV books MIT in Autumn peaktime slot
ITV1 is looking to bolster its Saturday night schedule in the autumn with a second series of Murder Investigation Team. The cop drama from Thames, which was originally a spin-off from The Bill , has been recommissioned by ITV ...
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BBC to challenge wasteful youths
Young people who rely on their parents to bankroll their lavish lifestyles will be challenged to change their ways in a BBC factual entertainment show, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Bob creator to make series for five
Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman is to have another of his kids' creations turned into a TV show. Five and Nick Jr have commissioned Chapman to make an initial 52 x 10-minute episodes of pre-school series Fifi and ...
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Done and Dusted to film Britney concert
Indie Done and Dusted has been commissioned by US channel Showtime to produce live coverage of Britney Spears' Miami concert next week - its second major US order since setting up an office in the states in October. Channel 4 is expected to pick up the UK rights to the ...
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Five in canadian co-pro deal for milkshake
Five has entered a co-production deal with Canadian animation house Nelvana for pre-school series Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. The channel has picked up the initial 26 x 30-minute series for its Milkshake block in the autumn. The series is also being co-produced by Glasgow-based CGI producer Absolute Digital Pictures.
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US women's channel picks up Neighbours
Fremantle Media's long-running Australian soap Neighbours , which airs on BBC1, is to launch in the US on women's cable network Oxygen, writes Michael Rosser.
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European channels snap up D-Day doc
Factual distributor Electric Sky has secured a raft of sales to broadcasters across Europe for documentary D-Day: The Shortest Day. The 52-minute special, produced by Peter Williams Television for ITV, has been picked up by PBS in the US, RAI3 in Italy, and HBO's ...
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ITV combines sport divisions
GRANADA Sport managing director Jim Raven is leaving the company as ITV Sport's production arms are reorganised following the ITV merger, writes Paul Revoir.
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Five and PBS to make D-Day doc
Windfall Films is to produce a£500,000 docu-drama for Five focusing on the ingenious machinery of war used in the D-Day landings, writes Michael Rosser.
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RTS judges give Dyke top honour
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke was this week given the prestigious judges award at the Royal Television Society's (RTS) annual programme awards, as the corporation won 17 of the 27 awards, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Zig Zag to examine split personality
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned to make a one-hour documentary for Five about a woman who is split between seven personalities. Working-titled The Woman with Seven Personalities has been commissioned by controller of science Justine Kershaw and is expected to be part of the ...
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LNN Factuals head leaves for indie
London News Network (LNN) Factuals head Bob Whittaker has become the first ITV regional programme-maker to quit the merged company to set up an independent.
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Imago to produce male makeover show
Norwich-based indie Imago Productions has been commissioned to produce a male makeover series for Discovery Health. Perfect Man , a 15 x 30-minute series, sees nine men transformed by a relationship coach into the ideal partner. The show is filmed at a secret location, where ...