All Commissioning articles – Page 796
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Football Italia under threat.
Channel 4 is close to axing its long-running Football Italia strand after nine years to concentrate its energies on cricket coverage, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC REVIEWS POLITICS.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and the head of the BBC's review into political coverage, Sian
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FOX GIVES PIG STARRING ROLE IN AUTUMN LINE-UP.
Pig City, a brand new animation which follows the life of 'country bumpkin pig' Mikey who moves to the big city has been bought to lead the autumn line-up for Fox Kids UK, writes Paul Revoir
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C5 TO AXE MOVIE SLOT.
Channel 5 is to axe its 21.00 Sunday movie slot from September and replace it with
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NewsPilger hits out at TV 11 September plans
Broadcasters are likely to be wasting their time swamping schedules with programming acknowledging the first anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks, according to award-winning writer and broadcaster John Pilger, writes Steve Aston
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Football Italia under threat
Channel 4 is close to axing its long-running Football Italia strand after nine years to concentrate its energies on cricket coverage, writes Paul Revoir
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Heggessey gets new docu-soap
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey's plan to reintroduce a major docu-soap to the channel's peaktime line-up has come to fruition with a 10-part series looking at the antics of insurance loss adjusters, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Channel 5 finds prison life is a bit rich
Channel 5 has commissioned a one-off documentary from Einstein Entertainment on how members of the upper crust fare when they are thrown in jail, writes Paul Revoir
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C4's new men
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Danny Cohen has ordered a two-part documentary series that aims to uncover the hidden world of female to male transsexuals, writes Leigh Holmwood. Make Me a Man, a 2 x 60-minute series from RDF Media, ...
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C5 courts controversy with police drama
Channel 5 has snapped up the rights to the controversial US drama The Shield, based on a fictitious violent and corrupt Los Angeles police department. C5 controller of acquisitions Jeff Ford negotiated a deal with Columbia Tristar International Television to buy the 13 x 60-minute ...
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Shine cooks up show for C4's comedy lab
Shine Entertainment has secured a 30-minute commission for Channel 4's Comedy Labseries. Comedians Steve Oram and Tom Meeten will star in Matthew and Tone - Tales of Friendship and Innocence, which will see the pair recount a series of poignant ...
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BBC World to give Middle East regular slot
BBC World, the BBC's 24-hour international news channel, is to launch a new programme dedicated to Middle Eastern affairs. The 30-minute Arab World Direct, which launches at the end of the month, is part of an existing strand that looks at different regions of the world. It will rotate with ...
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Nickelodeon draws up real cartoon plan
Nickelodeon UK is set to create a new 'reality cartoon', animating the lives and characters of a real British family, as part of the launch of Nicktoons TV. Animation company Milo Waterfield has been commissioned to make the cartoon, which will kick off once a suitable family has been found. ...
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Living lines up shows for toddlers' strand
Living TV has acquired a number of children's series for its morning pre-school strand Tiny Living. The Flextech channel has picked up cable and satellite rights to Hi-5 from Southern Star until 2007 and has bought 65 x 5-minute episodes ...
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NewsKeating builds a week around architecture
BBC 4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned a tranche of programmes for a week-long look at British architecture in the 21 stcentury, writes Jon Rogers
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PROGRAMMING BUDGETS - Just how low can you go?
Channel 5 has shown that low-cost programming need not mean low quality, but producers can only get away with the cut-price approach if they know when they can save money and when it's better to pay up. By David Collins
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TX - Blame it on the sunshine.
It's not easy to ask people from other countries, who've never heard of ITV, to cover
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PROGRAMMING - SPIRE TELLS FLOWER MARKET STORY FOR STYLE.
Oxford-based Spire Films has been commissioned by UK Style channel editor Nick Thorogood to produce a
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PROGRAMMING - PACIFIC PROFILES FEUDING LAP-DANCERS FOR SKY.
Sky One has commissioned a documentary from indie Pacific about the intense rivalry between lap-dancing clubs
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PROGRAMMING - LIVING TV KEEPS FAITH WITH PARANORMAL ZONE.
Living TV has ordered a tranche of new shows for its paranormal zone.Commissioning editor Jane Millichip