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BBC offers fresh take on history
Nick Knowles, the presenter of BBC1's long-running home improvement show DIY SOS , has written a six-part comedy history series for BBC1 in which he travels back in time to meet notorious figures such as Dick Turpin.
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The Lab unveils capital shows
The Lab has landed four commissions for LWT including a history series on the second world war.
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Tiger claws recommission for Teachers
Tiger Aspect has scored recommissions for Channel 4 high-school comedy drama Teachers and BBC crime drama Murphy's Law. Teachers will return for a fourth 9 x 60-minute series. Jane Fallon will executive produce while ...
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ITV dramatises life of Hurricane Higgins
Carlton is set to make a two-hour ITV drama based on the career of snooker wild man Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Producers are currently choosing a writer for the drama, which will be based on the Irishman's life as described in the unauthorised biography of him by Bill Borrows. Carlton's James ...
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Most Haunted spins off two
Living TV is set to build on the success of its ratings banker Most Haunted by launching a brace of spin-off shows.
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NewsBacon format to offer 'biggest TV prize'
TV presenter Richard Bacon is to offer 'one of the biggest prizes in television' as the front man of a new entertainment format from new Birmingham-based indie Your Slice of the Cake.
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NewsRose & Maloney extends to a full series
Company Pictures has been commissioned to make a full series of the ITV1 Sarah Lancashire drama Rose & Maloney.
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BBC2 TO MAKE THREE-PART DIET JUNKIES.
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a third instalment of its... Junkies strand with a look
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NewsFox orders Coogan ITV show
US broadcaster Fox has commissioned a stateside version of The Sketch Show, the ITV comedy show made by Steve Coogan's indie Baby Cow.
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NewsTeachers returns for fourth series
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachershas be re-commissioned for a fourth series.
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RTE1 takes bulk order of the Bill
Fremantle has secured sales of a further 79 episodes of ITV1 police drama series The Billfor broadcast on Ireland's biggest broadcaster. RTE1 has renewed its commission of the long-running drama, produced by Thames Television, and will broadcast the new episodes throughout next year. RTE1 has ...
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BBC2 to make three-part diet junkies
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a third instalment of its ?Junkiesstrand with a look at dieting. The 3 x 60-minute in-house Diet Junkies, which was co-commissioned by head of current affairs Peter Horrocks, will look at the history of ...
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Discovery commissions five original pilots for 2004
DISCOVERY Channel UK director Katy Thorogood has commissioned five broadcast pilots for the first quarter of next year, including a genealogy investigation and a programme which looks at the world's luckiest people, writes Paul Revoir.
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C4 follows Iraqi Muslim festival
Channel 4 is to put coverage of an Iraqi Muslim festival - banned by Saddam Hussein for 30 years - at the heart of its religious output for 2004, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4 buys Family format from BVI
DISNEY distribution arm Buena Vista International (BVI) has sold its US reality format The Familyto Channel 4, writes Paul Revoir.
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Scottish six not on the BBC's agenda
The BBC has again ruled out a Scottish Six O'Clock Newsfollowing a six-month review of news and current affairs output north of the border. The review, which included a series of public meetings and a survey of more than 1,000 people, found that 45% of ...
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Ian Wright travel show sells to Asia
Pilot Productions has closed a clutch of deals for its travel comedy series Ian Wright Live. The 13 x 30-minute co-production between Canadian network CTV and Thomas Howe Associates has been taken by Discovery Asia, Voyage in France, Asia TV in Hong Kong and Arts ...
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BBC returns to NHS
The BBC is to revisit the subject of its first current affairs day - the National Health Service - for a special next year. Programmes on BBC1 and across the BBC's radio and television network will look at the changes that have occurred two years on from ...
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Diverse extends Britain BC with spin-off
Diverse is to make a spin-off of its formatted Channel 4 history series Britain BC, which featured sheep-farming archaeologist Francis Pryor, writes Glen Mutel.
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Scandinavia and Malaysia snap up Mr Bean
Fremantle International Distribution has scored new sales of the animated adventures of comic creation Mr Bean. Produced by UK indie Tiger Aspect with Richard Purdum Productions and Varga Holdings, the 26 x 30-minute cartoon series has been taken by Danmarks Radio in Denmark, IBC in ...