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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 Sunrise for another year. Sunrisewill now continue to air between 06.00 and 06.30 each weekday and from 07.00 until 08.00 on Saturdays. The deal, ...
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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 behind Dead Ringers. Elephants to Catch Eels, written by Nev Fountain and Tom Jamieson, is set in 18th century Cornwall and features ...
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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 ordered by BBC Radio 4 commissioning executive Andrew Caspari. Rebel Hell, to be presented by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, will explore the political in-fighting and backroom dealings that ...
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NewsDiscovery wins access to BBC stock footage
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Discovery Channel owner Discovery Communications (DCI) to provide full access for the company's network of channels to the BBC's moving image stock, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsDiscovery Health doubles commissions
Discovery Health Channel has doubled its commissioning hours as part of a major increase in investment for the channel, writes Paul Revoir
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TX - Television's visionary.
During its 75 minutes, this documentary about the British inventor John Logie Baird only uses eight
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PROGRAMMING - BBC 1 DAYTIME TO FIND MORE HIDDEN TREASURE.
BBC head of daytime Alison Sharman and BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey have commissioned Leopard Films
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PROGRAMMING - TOP SOPRANO LEADS BBC 4 OPERA MASTERCLASS.
BBC 4 is to screen a live opera masterclass featuring leading lyric soprano Barbara Bonney giving
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PROGRAMMING - FAME ACADEMY SPAWNS BBC SPORT IMITATOR.
The BBC is to launch a new sports series along the lines of Fame Academy which
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PROGRAMMING - CARLTON'S WATERWORLD BACK FOR FOURTH DIP.
Carlton is to screen a fourth series of Waterworld, its factual series about the canals of
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PROGRAMMING - BBC WORLD SERVICE UNVEILS FEBRUARY LINE-UP.
BBC World Service has unveiled a number of new series to air at the end of
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Programming - Thames back inside for Channel 4 lifers update.
Thames TV is making a two-part follow-up to its Channel 4 Lifers series, which charted the lives of a group of prisoners serving life sentences, writes Penny Hughes.
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Programming - Talkback piles up C4 lifestyle shows.
Channel 4 head of features group Ben Frow has ordered a brace of expert-driven lifestyle series from Talkback Productions, writes Penny Hughes.
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PROGRAMMING - BIG BROTHER'S ADELE RETURNS WITH ATTITUDE.
Former Big Brother 3 housemate Adele Roberts has been asked to front a second series of
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Programming - BBC Wales to find best 'biz'.
A new business reality show in which viewers get the chance to vote for a start-up company they think has performed the best is being launched by BBC Wales, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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PROGRAMMING - BRITISH EUROSPORT TAKES OVER ITALIAN FOOTIE.
Italian football will be broadcast exclusively in the UK on British Eurosport from next month, following
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Programming - Thomas takes on allies' guns.
Mark Thomas, the self-styled scourge of the British establishment, is making a one-off special for Channel
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I'M A CELEB UP FOR SALE.
Granada has paved the way to sell I'm a Celebrity ... Get me out of Here!
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OU gains first peaktime slot.
The Open University (OU) has secured its first primetime slot on BBC 1 with a one-off special on the art deco movement, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Louis Theroux comes back with US-set series.
Irreverent celebrity interviewer Louis Theroux is set for a comeback with a series set in America as part of an exclusive new deal with the BBC, writes Leigh Holmwood.