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Somethin' Else wins second R2 soul series
BBC Radio 2 controller Jim Moir has commissioned indie Somethin' Else to produce a further 12 x 60-minute run of music show Soul Solutions. Presented by singer Mica Paris, the series will feature the best in soul music and feature interviews, guests and exclusive sessions. The series, which is produced ...
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Sky One picks up Transformers Armada
Sky One has acquired animation Transformers Armada- starring the Autobots and Decepticons - from Entertainment Rights. The 52 x 30-minute episodes will run at 08.00, seven days a week, with second screenings scheduled on Animix, the daily block on time-shift channel Sky One Mix.
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Wales' Avanti to make another Cable TV
Welsh indie Avanti Television has been recommissioned to make music show Cable TVfor BBC 2 and BBC 1 Wales. The 6 x 30-minute show, hosted by Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, will launch in April and run for six weeks, airing on Friday nights. It may ...
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The BBC remembers the holocaust
The BBC is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January with a series of programmes including a week-long drama on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour. Thea's Diarytells the story of a teenager's struggle to understand her war-torn homeland of ...
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Wise Buddah wins raft of commissions
Indie Wise Buddah has been commissioned to make a string of programmes for the BBC and GWR radio networks, including two 6 x 30-minute series for BBC Radio 2 featuring saxophonist Courtney Pine and jazz legend Billie Holliday. The station has also ordered 2 x 60-minute documentaries on David Gray ...
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NewsBBC writing initiative drama to air on BBC 3
A 'radical and edgy' film about a man sucked into the Leeds underworld written by the winner of a BBC new writing initiative is to be one of the key new dramas on BBC digital youth channel BBC 3, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsChart Show progs fill Rise gap
Channel 4 has replaced its ailing breakfast show Rise with a raft of music programmes from the makers of the Chart Show, as Rise undergoes a major face-lift before its re-launch later this month, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsTomorrow's World axed
BBC 1's futuristic technology show Tomorrow's World, a 38-year old fixture in the channel's weekly schedules, has been axed, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsEastEnders to be premiered on BBC 3
The BBC is to launch its new digital entertainment channel BBC 3 with a week of EastEnders episodes - before they are broadcast on BBC 1, writes Luke Satchell
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TX - Going to X-tremes.
Hey, we've all been there. You know how it is, you're grinding a noseslide on the
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Trade Talk - One Sice fits all.
Chris Sice has blazed a trail for MTV in interactivity; but can he keep the channel ahead of the game when it comes to programming?
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THOMAS ARRIVES ON ITV.
Stop-frame animation pre-school show Thomas the Tank Engine is returning to ITV with a new series
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BBC 2 studies causes of accidents.
BBC 2 is to examine the reasons why vehicle crashes occur and the impact they have
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ITV 1 revisits Alpha course.
ITV 1 has ordered a second series of its controversial religious series charting the phenomenon of
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CHANNEL 4 TO AIR LAST FRIENDS NEXT MONTH.
Channel 4 is bringing forward transmission of what is expected to be the last series of
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C4 orders image makeover show.
Move over Trinny and Susannah - Channel 4 is getting tough on crimes against aesthetics in
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BBC 3'S MURPHY ORDERS MORE MONKEY DUST.
Newly appointed BBC 3 controller Stuart Murphy has ordered a second series of animated series Monkey
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FOX KIDS UK TO SHOW MOVILLE MYSTERIES.
Nelvana International's animated series Moville Mysteries (left) has been acquired by Fox Kids UK for its
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LNN FACTUALS GIVEN DOCS ORDER BY LWT.
LNN Factuals has been commissioned to make a series of 8 x 30-minute current affairs specials
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ITV ORDERS CELEBRITY VERSION OF OBLIVIOUS.
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned Tiger Aspect Productions to make a celebrity version