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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
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PROGRAMMING - BBC RECOMMISSIONS RELIABLE DRAMA SERIES.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have ordered new runs
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PROGRAMMING - PRINCIPAL MAKES SHORT ABOUT DOLL AFFAIR.
Principal Media Group is making a five-minute short for Channel 4 about a man's affair with
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PROGRAMMING - EVANS RETURNS TO CHANNEL 4 ON NEW TERMS.
Channel 4 has cut a deal with Chris Evans for two weekly entertainment strands believed to
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PROGRAMMING - Granada and WGBH tackle UK role in US war.
Granada Bristol and WGBH Boston are to co-produce a BBC 2 historical series making a 'radical reappraisal of the British role in the American war of independence', writes Jon Rogers
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YOUNG SOAP FOR DIGITAL.
Young Asian people in Bradford taking part in a BBC-sponsored writing initiative are to see 2
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PROGRAMMING - BBC poaches ITV pop pundit.
Pop plugger turned TV face Nikki Chapman is to front three new BBC daytime shows after signing a deal with the corporation, writes Leigh Holmwood
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PROGRAMMING - ITV to air Blake's glacial odyssey.
ITV has bought the rights to screen TWI's ambitious self-funded documentary based on the last Antarctic
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PROGRAMMING - C5's unique talent show.
A woman with no brain who went on to gain three A levels is just one of the unique people lined up for a new Channel 5 science-based primetime strand, writes Georgina Lipscomb