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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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BBC1 drama delves into unknown
A major new BBC1 drama will feature the work of a team of parapsychologists - people who study mental phenomena beyond the scope of normal physical explanation - who investigate cases of voodoo, psychic abilities and past life experiences, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Canada checks out Paradise Hotel
The Television Corporation has struck a simulcast deal with a Canadian broadcaster for its US reality show Paradise Hotel, despite the fact that the most viewers in Canada can already see the show on Fox, writes Colin Robertson
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NewsC4 orders series on NI marching season
Channel 4 has ordered a fast-turnaround event directed by Bafta award winning director David Modell, that will document the marching season in Northern Ireland this summer, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsThe Bill goes live to mark 20th birthday
ITV is to celebrate the 20th anni-versary of its cop soap The Bill this autumn with a live extravaganza, writes Jane Marlow
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NewsRacy French films to spice up BBC4
Digital culture channel BBC4 is to spice up its schedule with a week of programmes devoted to the French and sex, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBroadcasters snap up C4 Moscow doc
Channel 4's Terror in Moscow documentary about the Moscow theatre siege in October last year has been sold to six territories, writes Penny Hughes
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Gay parents focus of RDF series for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned a 2 x 60-minute series from RDF Media about gay couples who are trying or in the process of having children, writes Penny Hughes
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CBBC Scottish head takes on wizard project
Head of CBBC Scotland Claire Mundell is to step down from her role for 18 months in order to executive produce a new big-budget transatlantic co-production, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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Co-pro deal to bring back Belgian sleuth
LWT is to make a raft of new Agatha Christie thrillers as part of a co-production deal between Granada International and US broadcaster A&E Network, writes Paul Revoir
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Lyon's Den tempts Five
Five has completed a deal to buy Twentieth Century Fox Television's new drama The Lyon's Den at the LA Screenings, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsC4 sets date for Brookie demise
Channel 4 has confirmed that long-running soap Brookside, shunted out of its peak time slot in November last year, will finally finish at the end of the year, writes Leigh Holmwood