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NewsBBC loves up daytime with films
TV movies - the traditional genre of schmaltzy tales of triumph over tragedy from the American mid-West - are to be given a UK spin as part of a new BBC drive led by controller of daytime Alison Sharman to bring stories of 'love and self-fulfilment' to its daytime schedule, ...
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NewsC4 to lay Lovelace bare
The life of celebrated porn star Linda Lovelace, who shot to fame in the cult 1972 movie Deep Throat but who died tragically in a car crash in April, is to be brought to the small screen in a new Channel 4 documentary, writes Penny ...
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C4 brings to life 'mad, bad' poet
The team behind Channel 4s acclaimed Shackletonand Longitude dramas is developing a multimillion pound two-part drama for the channel based on the life of Romantic poet Lord Byron, writes Penny Hughes
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Speer to lead in debt drama
The Full Monty star Hugo Speer has been signed up to star in a new BBC 1 drama, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Carlton lines up celebrities
Carlton Westcountry is drafting in celebrities to give a boost to its autumn schedule, writes Steve Aston
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Scooby Doo dives into lap of 'Toon Network
Cartoon Network has struck its biggest ever programme acquisition deal, securing 300 hours of content from Warner Bros International Television Distribution including the next series of Scooby Doo, writes Georgina Lipscomb. The 13 x 30-minute series, set to air on ...
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4learning makes modern-day Twelfth Night
4Learning, Channel 4's education arm, has commissioned a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which presents its main characters - Viola (played by Bend It Like Beckham actress Parminder Nagra - pictured) and Sebastian (Ronny Jhutti) - as asylum seekers. The 100-minute piece ordered by ...
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OSF sends Fast Show's Williams out on boat
Fast Show star Mark Williams is set to front a new history and science series by Oxford Scientific Films (OSF) for the Discovery Channel. Where There's Muck, a 10 x 30-minute series, will look at the industrial revolution and each ...
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BBCi to clean up with new web-based sitcom
The BBC is to launch a new sitcom written for and aired exclusively on its BBCi website. Cleaners, which is based around a group of late-night office cleaners, will be written by seven new writers - chosen from over 300 applicants - who won't meet ...
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Music Box produces Kerrang awards show
Television Corporation subsidiary Music Box has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a 60-minute special on the 2002 Kerrang! Awards on behalf of Emap Performance, part of the company that owns Broadcast. Tania Alexander will produce the show, which is due to air later ...
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Green Inc wins nostalgia recommissions
BBC Northern Ireland head of broadcast Tim Cook and head of entertainment Mike Edgar have recommissioned Belfast-based indie Green Inc to make second series of two popular shows. Nostalgia quiz Big Crash, produced by Chris Jones and executive produced by Stephen Stewart, will return for an extended run of 15 ...
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Shennan pulls plug on R5's Sunday Service
BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan has axed the network's critically acclaimed politics programme Sunday Serviceafter three years. A new Sunday show is being planned which will be presented by R5 Live breakfast news host Julian Worricker. It is expected to launch in January ...
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NewsITV 2 goes back to its roots
ITV2 is refocusing on its former goal to become a breeding ground for new talent with a 10-part order featuring gags from up and coming comedians and members of the public, writes Steve Aston
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TX - The truth is out there.
In BBC 2's new gameshow Liar the studio audience must try to identify which person out
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ADVERTISER-FUNDED PROGRAMMING - Cometh the hour cometh the ad man.
Declining advertising revenues have forced broadcasters to re-examine the potential of advertiser-funded television. But many fear they will lose editorial independence as well as revenues from conventional spot advertising
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NEW PRESENTERS FOR REVAMPED LIQUID NEWS.
Presenter Claudia Winkleman and BBC reporter Colin Paterson are to front a revamped Liquid News, the
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ITV to lure men onto live marriage show.
Unsuspecting boyfriends could find themselves getting proposed to and then hitched live on air as part of a new Carlton show for ITV 1, writes Jon Rogers
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FOX KIDS TO SHOW JAPANESE HAMSTER TOON.
Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has secured the TV rights to the Japanese animation series Hamtaro from
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LOOKALIKE'S ELVIS TRIBUTE.
The 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley is to be marked by a one-off
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CARLTON TO GIVE THE VICE FIFTH OUTING.
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliot has commissioned a fifth series of Carlton drugs and prostitution