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Zoe Ball gets afternoon show on XFM
XFM has confirmed that former BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Zoe Ball is to make a full-time radio comeback by presenting her own show on the London-based station. Ball, who has been filling in for XFM presenters Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for two months, has been signed to ...
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BBC's Tranter recommissions Linda Green
BBC controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter has ordered a second series of comedy drama Linda Greenfrom Red Productions. The 10 x 30-minute run, again starring Lisa Tarbuck, is currently filming in the Manchester area for transmission on BBC 1 in the early autumn. Special ...
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GWR's mix network to air interactive show
A new interactive pop show, CoreControl, is to be launched across the Mix Network - GWR's 13 local radio stations - in the autumn. The show will broadcast from 19.00 to 22.00 Monday to Thursday and from 19.00 to 21.00 on Fridays featuring chart hits ...
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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 drama The Vice. The series, which goes into production around London later this year, will kick off with a 90-minute special to be followed by a full 6 x ...
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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 flagship entertainment show that airs on BBC Choice and BBC 1. The pair take over in October, replacing Christopher Price who died suddenly from a rare condition in April. ...
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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 Hamtarofrom Shogakukan Productions. The 52 x 30-minute series is based on the children's books by Ritsuko Kawai and features the adventures of a curious hamster and his friends. The animation was ...
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NewsRosencrantz commissions Surprise Wedding for ITV 1
Unsuspecting boyfriends could find themselves getting proposed to and then hitched to their girlfriends live on air as part of a new Carlton show for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers
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NewsBBC to emulate ITV Saturday morning kids format
The BBC is to launch a Saturday morning version of music show Top of the Pops in order to try and close the ratings gap with ITV 1's SM:TV Live and CD:UK, writes Leigh Holmwood
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TX - And the band played on.
You might think that doing the sound for the BBC TV coverage of the Proms would
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TRADE TALK - Format hunter.
Lion TV is hoping for a killer format from its new head of entertainment, Adam Wood, whose credits include In it to Win it, Survivor and Shafted
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TEAM WRITING - Smells like team spirit.
After successes with the BBC's Merseybeat and My Family, US-style team-writing is being extended to Holby City. But are the UK and US TV industries too different for the American system to work here?
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LANDMARK PET SHOW IS ITS FIRST BBC 1 ORDER.
Oxford-based indie Landmark Films has bagged its first BBC 1 commission as part of a brace
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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 Lab series. Comedians Steve Oram
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BBC 4 season to home in on architecture.
BBC 4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned a tranche of programmes for a week-long look at British architecture in the 21st century, writes Jon Rogers
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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