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NewsTV sex excess sees Gardam shelve show
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam has shelved a two-hour live interactive Saturday night sex show planned for next month, after becoming concerned that there was too much sex on TV, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TWI snares BBC 1 Saturday LE slot
TWI has kicked off its move into entertainment securing an eight-part Saturday night LE show for BBC 1, writes Colin Robertson
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A triple whammy at Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect has won a trio of commissions including a Channel 5 vehicle for XFM DJ Christian O'Connell, write Georgina Lipscomb and Penny Hughes
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BBCi joins up with daytime cooking show
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchenhas been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as part of a wider push to get BBCi services into daytime, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Real-life west wing
The smallest room in the White House, in which all major international crises are debated, is to be recreated for a new BBC 4 programme in which a panel of eminent American decision-makers will be forced to react to a hypothetical global catastrophe, writes Leigh ...
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Brown eyed boy given C4 comedy lab slot
Indie Brown Eyed Boy, set up by former Chrysalis executive producer Gary Reich in June, has finished production on a 30-minute one-off, My Mouth Shalt Speak the Praise of Thy Lord Part 3, for Channel 4's Comedy Lab strand. Reich is the show's producer and ...
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Granada puts life into flagging careers
Granada has developed yet another talent show format, this time one aimed at reviving the careers of ageing British performers. Reborn in the USwill feature turns such as Alvin Stardust performing in front American audiences on a road trip of dates in a bid to ...
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ISIS Media looks at showbiz on the edge
Indie Isis Media is to produce a four-part series looking at local characters who exist on the peripheries of showbusiness. Nearly Famous, set to air in the Carlton Central region, will follow TV extras working on commercials and programmes such as ...
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Big Brother's Adele fronts YTV youth show
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV (YTV) to produce a 4 x 30-minute youth magazine show series fronted by former Big Brothercontestant Adele Roberts. Attitude!, described as a 'place to get things off your chest', will ...
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Puppets Ripley and Scuff get 40 episodes
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered a second series of Children's Company's pre-school puppet programme Ripley and Scuff. Grace has doubled the commission to 40 episodes of the 20-minute programme. Once again Robert Howes is the series producer and Alison Havell ...
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BBC to launch multimedia fightbox game
The BBC is launching a new multimedia entertainment format fusing gaming and technology to allow viewers to fight virtual gladiators in front of a live studio audience. In Fightbox, which airs on BBC 3 from autumn next year before being repeated on BBC 2, viewers ...
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TX - Who was that Guy?
BBC Bristol's retelling of the gunpowder plot couldn't be more different from the corporation's usual academic
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ITV'S ELLIOTT ORDERS KEVIN WHATELEY DRAMA.
ITV 1 controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned Thames TV to produce Promoted to Glory,
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NewsBBCi services to boost daytime
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchen has been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as part of a wider push to get BBCi services into daytime, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsAmerican strategists to avert worldwide disaster on BBC4
The smallest room in the White House, in which all major international crises are debated, is to be recreated for a new BBC 4 programme in which a panel of eminent American decision-makers will be forced to react to a hypothetical global catastrophe, writes Leigh ...
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Ronson on C4 paranoia trail
Channel 4 head of documentaries Peter Dale has ordered four new series including the latest investigative project from journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson, writes Penny Hughes
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Dating show to top Lush line-up
BBC 1 is to launch a dating show that will see parents choosing potential dates for their son or daughter as part of a raft of new shows from controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Bravo to explore sci-fi sex
Flextech-owned men's channel Bravo has announced a raft of new commissions including a 15-part series exploring what sex will be like in the future, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Kelly team charts estate life
The film-maker behind Carlton's Bafta-winning documentary on poverty in modern-day Britain, Kelly and her Sisters, is making a similar film based on a council estate in south London, writes Steve Aston
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RDF snares FHM tie-ins for BSkyB
RDF Media has joined forces with Emap to produce two linked shows for Sky One based on men's magazine brand FHM, writes Georgina Lipscomb