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NewsITV orders Hitler in Colour
TWI is lining up another installment of its ITV1 In Colour strand, with a 90-minute film marking the 60th anniversary of Hitler's death.
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£8m BBC2 arts show
BBC2 controller Jane Root this week confirmed a£8m investment in arts programming including a new 60-minute weekly arts journalism series, The Culture Show , which she billed as the channel's biggest new cultural programme for 10 years. The show will feature arts coverage from around ...
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BBC2 to air Asian arts and culture series
The BBC's Asian Programme Unit (APU) is to launch its first Asian arts, entertainment and culture show since Network East. Desi DNA, which is due to air on BBC2 from next month, will showcase British Asian talent and will be presented by BBC Radio 1's Nihal Arthanyake, BBC Asian Network's ...
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American Idol 3 set for global airing
American Idol 3 , the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol , is to be screened on a string of channels around the world including ITV2. The latest series of the show, produced by 19TV and Fremantle ...
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C4 orders two new Wife swap series
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife Swap. Both 6 x 60-minute runs will air this year. RDF media has now appointed the show's executive producer Jenny Crowther on a full-time basis. She will also ...
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C4I does brisk business with Australia
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a package deal with Channel 4 International. ABC has also bought Lion Television's two-part documentary Island of the Minotaur , RDF Media's Carthage, The ...
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Action time does format deals in Europe
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow All Together Now , created by Keshet Formats, has been picked for an additional 18 episodes by Star Channel in Greece and a second series on Show TV in ...
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ITV gains terrestrial rights to Ali G films
ITV has snapped up the terrestrial premiere rights to Ali G in da House , the cinematic debut of Sacha Baron Cohen's comic creation, despite the fact that the character was developed by Channel 4. The acquisition is part of an output deal with Working ...
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Know Comment wins BBC contract
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of the four 2004 political party conferences in Scotland. It marks the first time conference coverage has been contracted out to the indie sector by BBC Scotland. The company will work with Bowtie Television, which ...
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case
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Clocking Off writer pens BBC cop show
Clocking off writer Bill Gallagher is penning a cop series for BBC1 and BBC3.
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Blackpool lights up musical show
The bright lights and faded grandeur of Blackpool is to be the backdrop for a major BBC1 'musical drama' - one of a number of new projects from BBC head of drama serials Laura Mackie, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Mentorn wins ITV class order
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate , in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Sky One co-pro deal
Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel in the US have joined forces to make a 13 x 60-minute series of the 1980s sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica. Filming is due to start next month in Vancouver with David Eick as executive producer. The show expected ...
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NewsMiriam gets February date on Sky
Sky One will finally screen its controversial reality show There Something About Miriam later this month after paying the show's six contestants£125,000 each. The six claimed they were tricked into competing for the affections of a dark-haired 'woman' called Miriam, unaware that she was actually ...
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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Mosaic to follow olympic fortunes
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for BBC4. Nick Fraser, commissioning editor of BBC4 strand Storyville, has ordered Athens Through the Hoops for broadcast in the week before the Games start in August. The programme will investigate how the Olympics are ...
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Lion makes gay format for Fox
Lion Television has strengthened its foothold in the US with a major new commission for the Fox network.
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...