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CITV blasts kids into outer space
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has commissioned an ambitious multimedia series that will offer kids the chance to fly a 'spacecraft', writes Steve Aston
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Capital Xmas for Five
Five has signed a deal with Endemol production arm Initial for Capital Radio's Capital Christmas Live, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Ruby Wax to play at being pope for BBC 3
Comedian Ruby Wax and actress Jerry Hall are to provide the leading voices for a controversial new BBC 3 animation about the pope and the Catholic church. The 10 x 30-minute Popetown, to be made by indie CHX Productions in association with French outfit Moi ...
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Living TV builds links with the paranormal
Flextech channel Living TV has commissioned indie IPM to produce two one-hour paranormal specials for the Christmas period. Ordered by Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe and commissioning editor Jane Millichip, The Three Mediumsbrings together Living TV's three psychics - Colin Fry, Derek Acorah and ...
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Superhero roach to entertain Fox Kids
Fox Kids has bought two new animated programmes from Germany and France to join its winter line-up. Roboroach, a 52 x 11-minute series from Germany's RTV Family Entertainment, follows the adventures of a superhero cockroach and will air from 6 January. ...
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Wall to Wall wins couples commission
Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a 6 x 30-minute series for BBC 2 about the little things that drive couples mad. Five Things I Hate About You, based on a 50-minute non-broadcast pilot made by the outfit last year, was commissioned by ...
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CBeebies gives storymakers second run
Outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a second 65 x 15-minute run of pre-school strand The Storymakersfor the CBeebies channel. The series, which features a variety of storytelling puppets who live in a library, will be produced by Claire Bradley and executive produced by ...
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NewsBBC 4 to air Shindler's Huw Wheldon Lecture
Red Production founder Nicola Shindler's Huw Wheldon Lecture is set to be broadcast on BBC 4, writes Penny Hughes
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TX - Mind your language.
The idea for The Adventure of English came to Melvyn Bragg a couple of years ago
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C4 moves fast on Washington sniper film.
Ideal World Productions is working on a one-hour, fast-turnaround documentary for Channel 4 charting the recent reign of terror inflicted on the US by the Washington sniper, writes Penny Hughes
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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
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Little Britain to get TV airing.
BBC Radio 4 sketch show Little Britain is set to be the latest radio comedy show to transfer to television, after securing an 8 x 30-minute slot on both BBC 2 and BBC 3, writes Leigh Holmwood
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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
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Toon channel backs UK talent.
Cartoon Network has backed up its commitment to increase its level of original UK production with
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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
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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
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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
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HTV COMMISSIONS POP FACTORY MUSIC AWARDS.
Welsh indie Avanti Productions has been commissioned by HTV controller and director of programmes Elis Owen
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FOYLE'S WAR GETS SECOND SERIES FROM ELLIOTT.
Greenlit Productions second world war crime drama Foyle's War has been commissioned for a second series
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ITV BUYS CHRISTIE.
ITV has snatched the rights to the entire Agatha Christie collection after a 'titanic struggle' with