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Somethin' Else wins C4 order
Indie Somethin' Else has secured a rare TV commission with a six-part music show for Channel 4, to be presented by former Saturday Showfront man Joe Mace and Tom Findlay from dance band Groove Armada, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Five to look at 'super machines'
Indie Pioneer Productions, the self-styled creator of TV 'weather porn', has won a brace of commissions from Five and the Travel Channel, writes Penny Hughes.
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Kylie ex tours European art scene for BBC3
Model and photographer James Gooding, who hit the headlines following his tumultuous relationship with popstar Kylie Minogue, is to turn his hand to presenting with a series on art for BBC3, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsBB3's Alex to host Nickelodeon show
Nickelodeon has signed up star of Big Brother 3 Alex Sibley to host a new mass phone-in game-show called Off The Hook, which launches in March, writes Paul Revoir
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Liverpool talent to get Granada showcase
Granada Television has teamed up with Mersey TV development offshoot Conker Media to produce a 6 x 30-minute series showcasing new comedy, music and entertainment talent from the north-west. The show will be based in Liverpool and will transmit from a venue in the city, possibly a nightclub. The series ...
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Galaxy radio to air dance music show
The Galaxy network is to launch a new nightly dance music show to be fronted by DJ Dave Kelly. The show, ordered by Chrysalis Radio programme director Jim Hicks, will also have a big interactive element. It will air between 19.00 and 23.00 from Monday to Thursday and between 19.00 ...
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Channel 4 to help people meet secret loves
Wall to Wall has secured a 6 x 30-minute series commission from Channel 4, in which members of the public get the chance to find out information about the person they admire and then confront them in the hope of arranging a date. Ordered by C4 commissioning editor, factual entertainment ...
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UK Food orders 15 parter about puddings
UK Food editor Nick Thorogood has commissioned Illumina Digital to make Sweet - a 15 x 30-minute series based on chef James Martin's passion for desserts, which will air on UK Food in early May. Shot on location in Martin's kitchen at his home in ...
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Endemol to make Ground Force for BBC in US
BBC America has signed its first independent production venture after ordering an 8 x 60-minute US-based version of Endemol UK's garden makeover show Ground Force. Both the show's stars, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh, will appear in Ground Force America, ...
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Aldo Zilli hosts dinner dates for LWT
Celebrated restaurateur Aldo Zilli is to take over as the host of LWT's Dinner Dates. Zilli will front the 6 x 30-minute regional restaurant review show, which begins on 16 February at 17.45. The show is being created for the region by Granada production unit ...
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NewsBBC plans ?Iraq Day'
The BBC's landmark day of programming devoted to transport issues - the third in its current affairs series following those on the NHS and crime - is to be postponed in order to make way for special programming on Iraq, it has been confirmed, writes ...
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NewsBBC 4 resurrects After Dark
Seminal late night live discussion show After Dark, which famously saw actor Oliver Reed try to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by digital culture channel BBC 4, writes Leigh Holmwood
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TX - Next generation game.
The pedigree that Jane Fallon has built up through her work on the seminal series This
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R4 TO DISH DIRT ON 1982 REBEL CRICKETERS.
A 60-minute documentary recounting the 1982 rebel England cricket tour of apartheid South Africa has been
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JONATHAN ROSS TO PRESENT 2002 TV ROUND-UP.
Jonathan Ross is to take over presenting duties from Michael Parkinson on BBC1's annual retrospective of
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DEAD RINGERS TEAM IN NEW R4 COMIC VENTURE.
BBC Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has greenlit a new six-part comedy series from the team
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C4 to spotlight 'bad' Georgians.
Channel 4 has lined up a season of programmes that take a look at the dark
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ANNE ROBINSON TO HOST CELEBRITY DINNERS.
Acid-tongued presenter Anne Robinson is to make a full series of her alternative BBC2 chat show
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FIVE TAKES SKY'S SUNRISE FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
Five has renewed its contract with Sky News to continue broadcasting the satellite broadcaster's morning show
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Wall to Wall makes bold with knights of old.
Wall to Wall is to investigate the truth about the knights of the Middle Ages and