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Living TV orders child abduction series
Scallywag Pictures and production partner Prerequisite Formats have picked up a series commission for Living TV for a show about parental child abduction. The 10 x 30-minute series will be presented by Suncolumnist and broadcaster Jane Moore and will air in the spring. Living TV ...
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TX - Drawing on new talent.
Last year Stephen Loveridge, Siri Melchior, Steve Smith and Katy Milner were picked out from submissions
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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
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The BBC does a Delia on interiors.
Changing Rooms star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to front a new series which the BBC hopes will do for interior design what Delia Smith's How to Cook did for food, writes Leigh Holmwood
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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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LIVING TV BUILDS LINKS WITH THE PARANORMAL.
Flextech channel Living TV has commissioned indie IPM to produce two one-hour paranormal specials for the
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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
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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
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LOST DOCTOR WHO EPISODE REGENERATES.
A long-lost episode of Doctor Who, which has never been broadcast, is to be reshot by
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Oxford goes to India for drama.
Factual Indie Oxford Film & Television is moving into TV drama after securing a two-part series
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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
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US networks buy more UK formats.
British producers have strengthened their relationships with the major US networks with a rash of new
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BBC 4 splashes out on Graef doc.
BBC 4 has commissioned one of its most expensive documentaries to date after signing off a #500,000 medical investigation two-parter from Films of Record, writes Penny Hughes
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Driving School star to get BBC film treatment.
BBC Docusoap Driving School, which made a star out of hapless Welsh housewife Maureen Rees and her long-suffering husband, is to be turned into a comedy feature film written by the co-creator of cult Channel 4 series Spaced, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Floella to tackle racism for CBBC.
Veteran Playschool presenter Floella Benjamin has been commissioned by the BBC to make a film about her early life and the racism she encountered on her arrival in England from Trinidad, writes Leigh Holmwood
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TABLOID TALES SHOW.
Endemol-owned Brighter Pictures has emerged as the producer of new BBC 1 series Tabloid Tales set
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ITV lines up big-budget version of Dracula.
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has strengthened his penchant for big-budget adaptations of classic texts, giving Granada the go-ahead for a multimillion pound adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, writes David Wood
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NewsBBC to chart life of a raindrop
Computer imagery and wildlife film are to be used to chart the story of a single raindrop from space to the ocean floor in one of BBC 1's key factual Christmas shows, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsDes and Mel to carry on
ITV controller of daytime Liam Hamilton has backed the unlikely pairing of ageing crooner Des O'Connor and former model Melanie Sykes by commissioning a second long order of their lunchtime show, writes Steve Aston
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Floella to tackle racism for CBBC
Veteran Playschool presenter Floella Benjamin has been commissioned by the BBC to make a film about her early life and the racism she encountered on her arrival in England from Trinidad, writes Leigh Holmwood