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Xena to look at real-life female warriors
October Films has lined up Xena Warrior Princess star Lucy Lawless (right) to present a new Discovery Channel commission tracing the history of female fighters. Ordered by Discovery commissioning editor for history and event programming Bettina Hattami, Warrior Women will focus on Joan of Arc, ...
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Barrymore-ex spills beans to Channel 5
The ex-wife of troubled former TV star Michael Barrymore is to be the subject of a new Channel 5 documentary produced by Vera Production. Cheryl Barrymore has allowed cameras to follow her for the past month for the 60-minute programme, The Cheryl Barrymore Story, in ...
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NewsBoycott illness sees talkSPORT give up Ashes rights
The BBC has re-claimed the live radio broadcast rights to England's Ashes tour this winter from talkSPORT, after the radio station was forced to give them up due to anchor Geoffrey Boycott's diagnosis with throat cancer, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsThompson announces C4 programming budget hike
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson today announced a 5 per cent increase in the channel's programming budget from£410m to£430m for 2003, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsChannel 4 prepares to open The Salon
Endemol UK Productions and Channel 4 are planning to open a beauty salon in London as the setting for a new fly-on-the-wall series, write Georgina Lipscomb and Penny Hughes
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NewsRainbow to make saucy comeback
Fremantle Media, the production arm of RTL, is in talks to revive the classic ITV kid's show Rainbow on the eve of its 30 thBirthday, writes Luke Satchell
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Japanese war in colour
TWI and Carlton are in talks to produce an In Colour film about Japan's wartime record, specifically for the Japanese market, write Leigh Holmwood and Colin Robertson
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Record year for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide is claiming record programming deals at this year's Mipcom television market, notching up more than£5m worth of co-productions and programme licensing agreements, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsRevamped Crossroads to be 'fantastic'
Carlton is hoping to relaunch its daytime soap Crossroads as a glamorous fantasy series with 'influences from Greek tragedy' when it returns to ITV in January, writes Steve Aston
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NewsCBBC plans global bank of shows
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has unveiled a plan for a global 'programming bank' of children's titles that could be loaned for free to developing countries that have little track record of making kids programming themselves, writes Leigh Holmwood
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ITV 2 schedules spooky special
ITV 2 is to air a special week of programming in the run-up to Halloween including a new reality gameshow set in a haunted house and a special 60-minute live show featuring a major paranormal investigation, writes Luke Satchell
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C4 hopes investing in property will pay off
Ricochet South, the Brighton-based arm of Ricochet Films, has been asked to make a second series of Channel 4's hit property show Selling Houses, writes Penny Hughes
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Old favourite back at CBBC
The BBC's long-running teen drama Byker Grovehas been recommisioned for a 15th series by CBBC controller Nigel Pickard after being moved into the CBBC Scotland portfolio, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Sci-Fi splurges on first runs of indie films
The Sci-Fi channel has struck a six-figure deal with distribution company Metro Tartan for the acquisition of 12 independent UK first-run film titles, including Man Bites Dogand Hard Boiled, writes Katy Elliott
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The BBC's wizard Xmas
The BBC has scooped the exclusive rights to broadcast the first UK terrestrial outing of Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone. The BBC outbid other commercial rivals to buy the rights to the movie, which is expected to be shown on Christmas Day 2004. The ...
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Sky One buys Fat Boy Slim clubbing series
Sky One has bought a 26-part clubbing series featuring star DJs Fat Boy Slim and Paul Van Dyk from London-based distributor Impact. The 26 x 30-minute series, Mix of Nations, produced by emerging UK indie Phat Planet Films in association with the Ministry of Sound ...
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Talkback teams up with Shoreditch twat
Channel 4's comedy lab has commissioned a 30-minute special from Talkback Productions in association with irreverent fanzine Shoreditch Twat. The show, which will feature satirical sketches and animation, is due to air at the end of the month. Ordered by C4 commissioning editor for comedy ...
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Famously dirty old man wins BBC 1 tribute
BBC 1 is to air a 60-minute special tribute to Edmund Trebus, who featured in the first series of BBC 1 series of A Life of Grime as well as a special programme, Mr Trebus' Life of Grime. The 83-year-old ...
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Zeal wraps up deals with Dutch network
Dutch public broadcaster RTL4 has bought the rights to Zeal Television format Under Construction, while Dutch indie IDTV has bought another of the one-year-old UK producer and distributor's formats, Demolition. Under Constructionfollows 10 couples as ...
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September studies NY's monster brides
US broadcasters WE (Women's Entertainment) and Metro (NY) have joined together to commission September Films New York office to make an 8 x 60-minute factual entertainment reality series called Bridezillaswhich follows several Manhattan 'monster' brides and their excessively costly celebrations. WE/Metro are buying US broadcast ...