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BBC4 Soul specials
BBC4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned two documentaries to air during a special 'soul weekender' on the channel early next year. The working titled Urban Soul, to be made by Smoking Dogs Films, will tell the story of modern R&B and its rise in popularity. ...
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Forsyth in BBC1 show
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush have ordered a quiz show which will be fronted by former ITV star Bruce Forsyth. In the weekly Didn't They Do Well?two teams answer questions based on TV archives about major events, with a ...
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Art deco profiled
UK Style has ordered 6 x 30-minute series Art Deco Designs from indie Colonial American Productions to air from 11 December at 20.00. Presented by Maureen Lipman the show follows couples who love Art Deco houses. The series was commissioned by UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood and the executive ...
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Guinness on BBC2
The late actor Sir Alec Guinness is to feature in an Arena special to air on BBC2 at Christmas. The 90-minute Alec Guinness - A Secret Manwill be produced and directed by David Thompson, who had access to the actor's private journals and letters and ...
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Anglia builds Demolition Day for C4
Granada's Anglia TV is producing a new science reality gameshow for Channel 4 in which contestants are challenged to build the strongest structure they can in 72 hours, writes Paul Revoir.
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Real Life Media scores shows
Leeds-based indie Real Life Media Productions has scored a raft of commissions including a series looking at the impact the birth of twins and triplets have on families, writes Jon Rogers.
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Distraction sells Dream home to Germans
Distraction Formats has completed its first European sale of reality lifestyle show Dream Home, to German producer Blue Eyes Film and Television. Blue Eyes is now in discussions with local broadcasters. The renovation show, which first aired in 1999 on TV2 in New Zealand, follows two young families over a ...
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My Family cracks German market
Award-winning BBC comedy My Familyis set to be made for viewers in Poland and Germany after producer DLT Entertainment secured format deals with TVP and RTL, writes Michael Rosser.
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UKTV launches NZ channel on sky digital
UKTV is launching a sister channel in New Zealand this month to be carried on the country's Sky Digital platform. The joint-venture between BBC Worldwide, Fremantle Media and Foxtel will screen a mix of contemporary, classic and popular British programmes. UKTV, which runs a similar station in Australia, will include ...
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Carlton to make soldier, soldier for US
Carlton America has joined up with the team behind The West Wingto recreate army drama Soldier, Soldierfor the US. The ITV series, which ran for 82 episodes over six years, will be adapted by West Wing writer, producer and director ...
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Fox & Science Museum make aliens series
Fox has teamed up with the London Science Museum on a TV project that will become the first original production to air on its new UK entertainment channel, FX.
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BBC World to air on Italian DTT station
The BBC is poised to launch its 24-hour news and information channel BBC World on Italy's new digital terrestrial television service, which launches next month. The deal between BBC World and Italian broadcaster Mediaset will give the commercial channel access to around 50% of the Italian population through the free-to-air ...
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C4 goes inter sex
Channel 4 has ordered a brace of films from indie Wag TV looking at people with a rare disorder which makes them genetically one sex, although they look like the other, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Greece takes 200 ready steady cooks
Screentime Partners has secured a raft of new distribution deals with formats including Ready Steady Cook and The Chair. A further 200 episodes of Endemol UK format Ready Steady Cook have been picked up by Mega Channel in Greece while another 44 episodes of quiz show The Chair have been ...
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BBC2 to examine Harley St doctors
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a series looking at the doctors and patients in London's famous Harley Street in the latest example of the resurgence of interest in docusoaps, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsCan you spell 'repetition'?
The American phenomenon of national spelling events, as seen in the current Oscar-nominated hit movie Spellbound, is to be brought to the UK with both the BBC and Channel 4 developing formats.
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NewsCoogan and Reeves plan family ITV show
Comedians Steve Coogan and Vic Reeves are to team up to write and perform in an ITV comedy sketch show series.
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NewsJohnny Vegas signs comedy deal with BBC
Comedian Johnny Vegas, the former face of the now defunct ITV Digital, is to become one of the leading names on the BBC after signing an exclusive development deal with the corporation.
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BBC goes all out to pick Euro song
The BBC is to create a big prime-time 'very sexy' Saturday night event to choose next year's British Eurovision song contest entry after the national humiliation of scoring nil points this year.
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Sky's Baker drops Live Boob Job
New Sky One controller James Baker has kicked off his tenure by rejecting a major live surgery event planned by his predecessor Sara Ramsden.