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Living to test nation's ESP
Hot on the heels of its ill-feted live séance with Princess Diana, Living TV has put together another live 'parapsychic' event - testing 500 people's levels of extra sensory perception (ESP), writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsPrebble gets off to fighting start
Former ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble has scored his first commissions after returning to programme-making as a partner in former Granada Content creative director Andrea Wonfor's new indie, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Sky focuses on fantasies
Sky One has commissioned Endemol-owned Initial to produce six hours of programming that will uncover the nation's top 10 fantasies, writes Penny Hughes
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TCM signs up big names for shorts season
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has signed up a list of high-profile actors including Sissy Spacek, Alan Rickman, Charles Durning, Ving Rhames and Alan Cumming for an original series of short films called Painting with Light, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsEvans given another chance
Channel 4 is going ahead with a new early evening show from Chris Evans' UMTV, despite recent ratings which show the former presenter's other project for the channel, Boys and Girls,
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Five show will find out what women want
Five has revealed further details of its new primetime dating show that will attempt to uncover how women want to be treated by men. The 8 x 30-minute What Women Want, which is due to air in June, will feature three men carrying out tasks ...
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Groundforce star gets Discovery project
Discovery Home & Leisure has ordered a second series of DIY programme Challenge Tommy Walshfrom indie Isis Media. Walsh, who is most well known from BBC1's Groundforce, will again tackle building disasters submitted by viewers. The 15-part series is being ...
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BBC sends Palin to Himalayas
Former Monty Python star and avid traveller Michael Palin is set to venture to the Himalayas for his next epic journey as part of a raft of new BBC factual commissions from indies, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC NHU heads for the jungle
The BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU) is to examine the dark and dense worlds of rainforests and reptiles in two major new series, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Nat Geo sends tigress on animal quest
National Geographic Channel has commissioned indie Tigress to produce Hayden Turner's Wildlife Challenge, in which the roving presenter tries to find stunning images of animals. Turner will be pitted against time, budget and distance to come up with images of animals such as grey whales, ...
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Indie gets exclusive access to human cloning doctor
Documentary-maker Peter Williams, who made the film on the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown over 20 years ago, has secured exclusive access to the doctor who has claimed to have created the first cloned human embryo, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C4 doc to look into doctors' thinking
The way doctors make decisions about their patients in a busy accident and emergency department will be analysed in a documentary series for Channel 4, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC4 plans series about 'dark lady' of DNA
A documentary on molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin is to be the centrepiece of a season of programmes about DNA on BBC4. The 50-minute Dark Lady of DNA, a Nova production by Providence Pictures for WGBH Boston and BBC4, will look at the work she did ...
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C4 banks on dating show being a hit
Channel 4 has doubled the length of the episodes in its new dating show Secret Admirerfrom 30 to 60 minutes. The six-part series, in which members of the public get the chance to find out information about the person they admire and then confront them ...
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NewsC4 shores up US imports deal
Channel 4 has extended its deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution for a package of high profile shows including Friends, ER and the new drama from the makers of Five's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsFergie's flops come up trumps for ITV1
ITV1's coverage of Manchester United's Champions League quarter final against European giants Real Madrid last night (8 April) gave the channel its highest Tuesday night peaktime figures since October last year, with 9.1 million (37% share) viewers watching the match, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsBBC2 gets twice-weekly 'BBC4 Zone'
The BBC is to give programmes from its digital arts channel BBC4 a twice-weekly airing on BBC2 as of tomorrow (8 April), in a bid to promote the channel and to drive digital takeup, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsCommunity Channel switch to original programming
The Community Channel, the charity TV service headed by Carlton chairman Michael Green, is moving into original programming and has signed up popular faces such as Vanessa Feltz and Dr Hilary Jones, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsBBC unveils Easter schedule
The BBC has unveiled its Easter radio and TV programme schedule, which features shows ranging from traditional church services to a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Martin Luther King, writes Michael Rosser
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NewsFields of Gold writer to pen 9/11 drama
The writer behind Fields of Gold, the BBC's controversial drama about GM crops, is writing a new Channel 4 drama looking at how the build-up to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11, writes Penny Hughes