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ITV 2 to show warm-up to comedy awards
ITV 2 head of programmes Daniella Neumann has ordered a 60-minute special starring Jack Dee as a warm-up show for this year's British Comedy Awards. Countdown to the British Comedy Awards will be produced by Michael Hurll Television, which also produces the main awards ceremony ...
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The Bridge plans doc about Brighton music
Brighton-based indie The Bridge is to make a 6 x 30-minute series on the rise of the Brighton music scene for Meridian. The series, Brighton Beats, which will include the story of Fatboy Slim's notorious free beach parties and cover regional bands such as Electric ...
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BBC 1 to air Elton John special for Xmas
Elton John is to perform some of his most memorable songs in a special one-off concert for BBC 1. Elton John at the Royal Opera House, which will be recorded early next month to air around Christmas, will feature a 90-piece orchestra made up of ...
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Midsomer Murders wins two more orders
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has ordered a further two series of Bentley Productions' crime drama Midsomer Murders. The seventh series will be a 6 x 120-minute run with filming beginning in mid-May next year. A minimum of four other programmes have also been ...
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Men & Motors to show a-z of sex in the US
Men & Motors channel manager Lesley Johnson has commissioned Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions to produce Emma's A to Z of American Sex. The 13 x 30-minute series as been shot on location in the US will be broadcast early next year. The series will be ...
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Radio 4 drama snaps up Sex and the City star
Sex and the City actor Kyle MacLachlan has been lined up to star in a radio drama for BBC Radio 4. Love Letters, by American playwright Albert Ramsdell Gurney, is a 45-minute drama which revolves around the love letters written between characters Andrew Ladd (played ...
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NewsITV beats BBC to Agatha Christie catalogue
ITV has emerged the victor following a 'titanic struggle' with the BBC over the rights to the entire Agatha Christie collection including BBC stalwart Miss Marple, writes Katy Elliott
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NewsFoyle's War gets a second series
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has ordered a second series of Greenlit Productions' crime drama Foyle's War before the first series has even finished airing, writes Jon Rogers
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NewsHeggessey orders Elton John special
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey is hoping to repeat the success of the recent One Night With Robbie Williams event with a one-off Albert Hall special starring Elton John, writes Leigh Holwmood
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Channel 5 in hot pursuit of reality hit
A member of the public will be given the chance to become a Formula 1 racing driver trained by Jensen Button as part of a major new reality series for Channel 5, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Ten Alps invests in politics shows
Bob Geldof's media outfit Ten Alps Communications is gearing up for a major a push into TV political programming after paying£4.5m for factual independent company Brook Lapping Productions, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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NewsTV sex excess sees Gardam shelve show
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam has shelved a two-hour live interactive Saturday night sex show planned for next month, after becoming concerned that there was too much sex on TV, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TWI snares BBC 1 Saturday LE slot
TWI has kicked off its move into entertainment securing an eight-part Saturday night LE show for BBC 1, writes Colin Robertson
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A triple whammy at Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect has won a trio of commissions including a Channel 5 vehicle for XFM DJ Christian O'Connell, write Georgina Lipscomb and Penny Hughes
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BBCi joins up with daytime cooking show
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchenhas been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as part of a wider push to get BBCi services into daytime, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Real-life west wing
The smallest room in the White House, in which all major international crises are debated, is to be recreated for a new BBC 4 programme in which a panel of eminent American decision-makers will be forced to react to a hypothetical global catastrophe, writes Leigh ...
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Brown eyed boy given C4 comedy lab slot
Indie Brown Eyed Boy, set up by former Chrysalis executive producer Gary Reich in June, has finished production on a 30-minute one-off, My Mouth Shalt Speak the Praise of Thy Lord Part 3, for Channel 4's Comedy Lab strand. Reich is the show's producer and ...
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Granada puts life into flagging careers
Granada has developed yet another talent show format, this time one aimed at reviving the careers of ageing British performers. Reborn in the USwill feature turns such as Alvin Stardust performing in front American audiences on a road trip of dates in a bid to ...
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ISIS Media looks at showbiz on the edge
Indie Isis Media is to produce a four-part series looking at local characters who exist on the peripheries of showbusiness. Nearly Famous, set to air in the Carlton Central region, will follow TV extras working on commercials and programmes such as ...
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Big Brother's Adele fronts YTV youth show
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV (YTV) to produce a 4 x 30-minute youth magazine show series fronted by former Big Brothercontestant Adele Roberts. Attitude!, described as a 'place to get things off your chest', will ...