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ITV2 places order for party in the parks
ITV2 has commissioned Daisybeck Productions to produce a 60-minute music special on the broadcaster's own Party in the Parks concerts. The show will feature star-studded gigs in Leeds and Swansea and will include artists such as Busted, Sugarbabes, Atomic Kitten, Liberty X, Darius and Girls Aloud. ITV2's ...
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MUTV to air all of 1999 Champions' League
Football club Manchester United has reached an exclusive agreement with the European Commission and Uefa to show the full archive of the 1999 Champions' League season on its own channel, MUTV. Celebrating the team's winning of the treble that year, the final match of the 13-game run will be the ...
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C4 orders second Prejudice
Channel 4 has recommissioned 12 Yard's controversial hidden-camera gameshow Without Prejudice?, writes Penny Hughes.
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Doc to profile 'love rat' Hewitt
The producer of Channel 4's The Real Heather McCartneyhas gained no-holds-barred access to Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt for its next C4 film, writes Penny Hughes.
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NewsITV lines up mother-in-law reality show
ITV's new controller of factual Bridget Boseley has marked ITV's new push into edgier factual programming with her first commission - a show which forces people to take their mother-in-law into their homes for a week, writes Paul Revoir.
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Superbike star gets his own documentary
Granada Men & Motors has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute fly-on-the-wall series from indie Octagon following the UK's top superbike rider Neil Hodgson as he attempts to win the 2003 Superbike World Championship. Airing from 21 August, Superbiker goes behind the scenes from the paddock to the testing grounds to ...
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Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade to return
BBC Radio 2 head of programmes Lesley Douglas has commissioned radio indie Wise Buddah to produce a fifth series of Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade. Featuring new jazz releases, special guests and news, the 8 x 60-minute series is scheduled for broadcast in December and will be produced by Sarah Cropper.
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Discovery health reorders Slimming Club
Discovery Health has ordered a second series of Slimming Club from Yorkshire TV's factual department. The 15 x 30-minute show, which follows the trials and tribulations of people in a diet support group, will air later this year.
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Cicada to look at pre-roman civilisation
Indie Cicada Films is making a 50-minute programme about a new archaeological site in northern Italy that reveals how the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilisation, funded their hedonistic life. The Etruscans, for Discovery Channel and Welsh language broadcaster S4C, is executive produced by Frances Berrigan and directed by Ian Denyer for ...
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Blow-by-blow look at high-speed wedding
September Films has scored a bizarre 60-minute programme order from US broadcaster Lifetime Television in which a prospective bride and groom must organise their wedding in the time it takes for the world's largest blow-up church to inflate. Marry Me Nowwill follow one partner's proposal ...
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Rolf Harris to receive Albert Hall tribute
BBC1 is to commemorate artist and singer Rolf Harris' 50-year TV career with a major event at the Royal Albert Hall. The Animal Hospital host will host Rolf at The Royal Albert Hall in which he will perform a variety of musical and artistic endeavours including 'a giant sing-along'. The ...
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C4 looks at history of speed records
Thrill-seekers who risked their lives in a bid to break speed records are to be the focus of a new Channel 4 series, writes Michael Rosser.C4 commissioning editor, history Hamish Mykura
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BBC Communities project extended to Radio 4
A major BBC initiative aimed at forging closer ties with local communities is extending to Radio 4 and the Community Channel. Programmes created by the Voices project, handled by BBC Nations & Regions, have run on BBC TV since March but from 13 July a selection of 12 films will ...
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Leopard to soup up cars for Discovery and C4
Leopard Films has picked up a co-commission from Discovery Networks Europe and Channel 4 for a second 10-part series of Thunder Races. The 10 x 60-minute series, which will air first on Discovery and then later on C4, follows three teams of car enthusiasts as they transform an old banger ...
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Radio 4 reorders cross-dressing comedy
The comedy writing couple behind ITV's Faith in the Future and BBC1 series Next of Kin have been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 commissioning editor, drama and entertainment Caroline Raphael to pen a third series of cross-dressing comedy The Change. Scripted by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie, the series will ...
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R2 doc investigates pirate radio's past
Leading lights of pirate radio will come under the spotlight in a new R2 documentary, writes Michael Rosser. The Radio Revolutionaries, produced by indie Heavy Entertainment, will trace the story of
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R2 revisits the 1980s
Thatcherism, Live Aid and the mullet will all feature in a BBC Radio 2 series chronicling the music, sport and politics of the 1980s. Produced by Mark Goodier's indie, Wise Buddah, The Real 80s will combine archive material with new interviews over 4 x 60-minute weekly spots from 29 July. ...
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ITV1 puts Fergie assistant in doc
ITV1 has commissioned a docudrama on the story of Jane Andrews - the former assistant to the Duchess of York who was jailed for killing her lover in a jealous rage,
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NewsRolf gets one-off special
Rolf Harris - who before the advent of Kylie Minogue was arguably the country's favourite Australian - is to celebrate fifty years in television with a one-off special for BBC1, writes Luke Satchell
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C4 journeys into daytime
Channel 4 has commissioned indie At It Productions to produce its first ever daytime travel series, writes Rosemary Gallagher