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Kitchen detective on way to discovery
Discovery Health channel director Clare Laycock has ordered Kitchen Detective , a 10 x 30-minutes series from Twofour Productions, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation. The show sees a top nutritionist giving advice about diets. Katie Taylor is producer and Steve Grizell is executive producer.
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Discovery US goes to Extreme for doc
Extreme Entertainment has been commissioned by Discovery USA to make a one-hour documentary exploring how humans can affect electronic circuitry. Electric Children will co-produce with UK indie Illumina TV. Extreme will retain the international rights, with the exception of the US and Asia which ...
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Early Doors to return for second series
Royle Family writer Craig Cash's acclaimed BBC2 comedy series Early Doors has been commissioned for a second run, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Fox Sports Net to play Late Night Poker
Indie Presentable has sold its Channel 4 show Late Night Poker to US network Fox Sports, writes Glen Mutel.
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Celebrities enter Hell's Kitchen
ITV has signed highly-strung chef Gordon Ramsay to star in a new live entertainment show in which he hires a group of celebrities to help him run a restaurant, writes Paul Revoir.
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BBC3 gives Vaughan another shot
Johnny Vaughan, whose BBC3 chat show was dropped last year, is to return to the digital channel with a new live entertainment show.
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Secret Policeman reassessed
Films of Record is to revisit seminal comedy event The Secret Policeman's Ball for a 25th anniversary special, writes Michael Rosser.
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Betty looks at Brit penchant for camp
Channel 4 has commissioned Betty to make a two-part documentary series which examines the UK's love affair with gay entertainers, writes Glen Mutel.
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BBC orders terror simulation series
BBC2 has commissioned a topical entertainment series in which members of the public will take on the role of government ministers and react to simulated major national disasters such as a bomb on the tube, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsC4 recommissions Peep Show
Peep Show , the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy from Objective Productions, has been re-commissioned for a second series.
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NewsCelebdaq put on critical list
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has given his channel's high profile celebrity stock-trading show Celebdaq two weeks to prove itself or face the axe.
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Trevor's World of Sport set for revival
BBC2 controller Jane Root could revive Hat Trick's BBC1 sitcom Trevor's World of Sport if a forthcoming repeat of the series performs well. The comedy has been greenlit for a repeat on BBC2 and a new series has been pitched to Root. Writer Andy Hamilton ...
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Jimmy's key to ITV1 religion
Yorkshire Television (YTV) is reviving its hospital docu-soap Jimmy' s as a key part of ITV1's religious output.
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NewsSky close to deal with men to air Miriam
Sky One is making plans to show its controversial reality show, in which a transsexual man 'tricks' a group of single men into thinking he is female.
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Channel 4 picks up Britney
Fremantle International Distribution has scored 25 sales for ABC's behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. Channel 4 is among those which will screen Britney Spears: In the Zone , after Fremantle picked up the rights to distribute the 60-minute programme in November. Other European broadcasters ...
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S4C to screen second Fireman Sam series
Animated children's show Fireman Sam is set to return to S4C for another Welsh-language series in 2005. The channel is currently screening the first series of the programme - its first new series since 1994. In addition, the BBC will screen English-language versions of both ...
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BBC takes on US' Arrested Development
The BBC has secured the exclusive UK television rights to the acclaimed US comedy Arrested Development from 20th Century Fox TV.
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Avalon brings up third TV burp with Hill
Off-the-wall comic Harry Hill has been lined up by ITV1 to present a third series of his television review show. Avalon Television has been recommissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute series of Harry Hill's TV Burp, which is due to be screened from mid-February. Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday ...
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Lion builds on successful Bad Behaviour
Lion Television is to revisit the subject of badly behaved children for a Channel 4 series.
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BBC nets Reef's Bargain Hunt gameshow
Indie Reef Television has been commissioned by BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman to make a 5 x 60-minute series for BBC2 about buying antiques abroad . Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting , which will be presented by antiques dealer Chris Gower, will mix hunting ...