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NewsMTV unveils UK shows at upfronts
US cable network MTV has ordered three series from All3Media America, Optomen Television and Zodiak.
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NewsC5 lines up Never Teach Your Wife To Drive!
Channel 5 will examine the patience of couples in Never Teach Your Wife To Drive! - its latest inhouse commission.
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NewsBBC1 revisits Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Cider With Rosie, The Go-Between and An Inspector Calls will be adapted as 90-minute dramas for a BBC1 season of early 20th century British novels and plays.
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NewsITV rustles up celebrity cookery series for daytime
ITV has used ingredients from Come Dine With Me and Through The Keyhole to create a celebrity-led daytime cookery series.
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NewsITV wins Broadmoor access for doc series
ITV has won approval from health minister Norman Lamb to secure unprecedented access to Broadmoor Hospital for an ob-doc series.
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NewsBritespark wins US commission for docu-drama
Britespark Films, the indie set up by former Cineflix head of documentaries Nick Godwin, has secured its second significant commission in the US.
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NewsJodie Marsh returns to TLC
TLC UK is extending its relationship with glamour model-turned-bodybuilder Jodie Marsh with two new documentary shows.
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NewsInteractive C4 doc explores NHS
Sanjay Singhal’s Voltage TV has picked up its first commission - an interactive documentary format about the NHS for Channel 4 in which viewers will give their opinions about patients receiving treatment.
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NewsPBS orders Windfall D-Day doc
US public broadcaster PBS has ordered a one-off D-Day documentary from Windfall Films which draws heavily on cutting-edge technology.
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NewsRichard Osman fronts Remarkable quiz
BBC Daytime has commissioned Pointless-indie Remarkable Television to produce a quick-fire quiz show for BBC2.
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NewsLion's Find My Past heads to Travel Channel
US cable network Travel Channel is remaking Lion Television’s British genealogy series Find My Past.
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NewsA League of Their Own’s future secured until 2017
Sky 1 has struck a deal to keep James Corden-fronted panel show A League of Their Own on air until 2017.
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NewsDiscovery scraps Everest event
Discovery Channel has scrapped plans for its ambitious Everest Jump Live stunt following an avalanche on the mountain which resulted in the deaths of 12 people.
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NewsITV pilots sitcoms from Green Wing writers
Darren Boyd and Katherine Parkinson have been lined up to star in two separate ITV sitcoms from the writers behind Channel 4’s cult comedy Green Wing.
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NewsEducating Yorkshire pupil heads to Stammer School
Educating Yorkshire star Musharaf Asghar is to appear in a Twofour documentary about stammerers for Channel 4.
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NewsBBC considers revival of The Generation Game
The BBC is in early talks to revive classic 1970s entertainment show The Generation Game with Miranda Hart as host.
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NewsWaitrose & C4 partner for cookery AFP
Channel 4 has teamed up with Waitrose to create an ad-funded programming (AFP) Saturday morning live cookery show fronted by Steve Jones and Lisa Snowdon.
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NewsC4 orders Shed of the Year show
Channel 4 is to go behind the scenes at Britain’s “prestigious” Shed of the Year competition for a three-part series.
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NewsShetland to return to BBC1
BBC1 has commissioned a second series of crime drama Shetland from ITV Studios.
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NewsRandom Acts 'supercharged' by C4
Channel 4 is to ‘supercharge’ its Random Acts arts strand, beefing up its budget and handing it a more prominent TV slot.