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PLANET 24'S MECHANICK.
Channel 5 controller of children's Nick Wilson has ordered a 40-part kids series from Planet 24
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WIFE SWAPPING TRAVELS.
RDF International has sold new RDF Media entertainment format Wife Swap to five foreign territories. The
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CARLTON MIP SUCCESS.
Carlton International sold more than 300 hours of programming at the Mipcom market last week. The
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Brookie set may live on in sitcom.
The unfeasibly hazardous Liverpool cul-de-sac which plays host to Channel 4's now departing soap Brookside could
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FREMANTLE SET ON BRINGING BACK RAINBOW.
Fremantle Media, the production arm of RTL, is in talks to revive the classic ITV kids
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ITV 2's airtime to be boosted.
ITV is extending the hours of ITV 2 to build on its success in multichannel homes,
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BBC BOOSTS REGIONS.
BBC News 24 is expected to shake up its regional programming over the next three months
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Leopard takes on BBC daytime
Indie Leopard Films has won its biggest terrestrial commission with a new 25-part daytime series for BBC 1, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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ITV to tell story of royal romance
The relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles is to be explored in a new documentary for ITV from the producer of the channel's acclaimed profile of the Queen , writes Paul Revoir
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Beauty salon to open on C4
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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Planet 24's Mechanick
Channel 5 controller of children's Nick Wilson has ordered a 40-part kids series from Planet 24 animation division Impossible TV, writes Steve Aston
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Emap recruits Splinter for C4 Q awards
Splinter Films has been signed up by Emap, publisher of Broadcast, to produce this year's Q Awards being held next Monday (21 October) for Channel 4. The 60-minute programme will air the following night at 23.30. The Q Awards programme was ordered by C4 commissioning ...
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Somethin' Else to film jazz festival for BBC 4
BBC head of music entertainment Mark Cooper has commissioned indie Somethin' Else to make two programmes covering the 10th London Jazz Festival, which takes place on the South Bank between 15 and 24 November. The 60-minute shows will air on BBC 4 at the end of the month and feature ...
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New faces banged up as Bad girls returns
Filming has begun on the fifth series of Shed Productions' women's prison drama, Bad Girls. The latest 16 x 60-minute run of episodes is slated to begin on ITV 1 early in 2003. Among the new inmates this series are Amanda Barrie and Stephanie Beacham. ...
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Pioneer snares oil rig gig for discovery
Pioneer Productions has begun filming a 50-minute HD documentary for The Learning Channel about the new generation of oil and gas rigs. Extreme Machines: Offshore Rigswill premier on Discovery HD Theatre before being broadcast on The Learning Channel and on Discovery networks worldwide. The programme ...
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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