Commissioning – Page 385
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NewsVicars, boffins and scousers share jokes for BBC4
Vicars are to tell dirty jokes for BBC4 in a British spin-off of cult hit Old Jews Telling Jokes for a planned ‘year of comedy’ on the channel.
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NewsBBC4 orders emergency aid film
BBC Four has commissioned a feature length documentary from Wall to Wall exploring the history of emergency aid and the current challenges facing the fundraising and distribution of disaster relief.
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NewsBBC1 gets more Pointless
Three more daytime series and another primetime celebrity series of Pointless have been ordered for BBC1.
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NewsFake couples to fool immigration experts in C4 pilot
Channel 4 is piloting a gameshow which will see fake couples try to convince immigration inspectors that they are a genuine item in order to win £10,000.
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NewsITV2 picks up Matt Edmondson fronted panel show
ITV2 has snapped up an eight-part run of gameshow Fake Reaction from STV Productions after it was piloted by BBC3.
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NewsBBC1 takes Talpa comedy panel show to series
David Walliams, Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan are to star in a BBC1 Saturday night comedy entertainment show about patriotic knowledge.
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NewsTeam GB to compete in BBC Superstars special
Legendary sports competition Superstars is being revived for a BBC1 Olympic Christmas special featuring a host of British Olympians.
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NewsSky Vision set for battle of Sandy docs with DSP
Sky Vision, the company formerly known as Parthenon Media Group, is to enter a ratings battle with Darlow Smithson Productions with its first commission under its new name – a fast-turnaround doc about Superstorm Sandy for The History Channel US.
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NewsC4 helps women find love and men become Santa
Shed Media’s Twenty Twenty Television and Ricochet Television will tackle love and provide a new twist on the Christmas spirit for Channel 4.
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NewsIndies show Living some love
Sky Living has commissioned a series of one-off comedies on the theme of love, inspired by sister channel Sky 1’s success with the Little Crackers brand.
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NewsBBC1 ends Hunted
BBC1 has confirmed that Kudos Film and Television’s drama Hunted will not return for a second series.
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NewsC4 head of comedy contenders emerge
Comedy executives from the BBC and leading production companies are vying for the head of comedy role at Channel 4, it has emerged.
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NewsTOWIE goes live for Xmas
The Only Way is Essex is going live for a Christmas special which will air at the start of December on ITV2.
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NewsE4 orders My Little Princess
Over-protective fathers will put prospective suitors for their daughters through their paces in a surreal action gameshow, from the creator of Banzai, for E4.
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NewsC4 orders pilots for 4Funnies
Derek star David Earl will play a small-town taxi driver spending his nights trying to relate to the world through his passengers in a comedy pilot for Channel 4.
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NewsTransparent follows plastic surgery gone wrong for C5
Channel 5 has commissioned Transparent Television to make a two-part documentary about attempts to correct plastic surgery that has gone wrong.
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NewsE4 sitcom reunites Inbetweeners girls
Bwark Productions is reuniting three female stars of The Inbetweeners Movie for an E4 comedy series about young women who have recently left university.
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NewsC4 to offer parents help at bedtime with new live series
Channel 4 is close to commissioning a major factual series examining the problems parents in the UK face in getting their children to sleep.
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NewsCelebrity Juice creators launch ‘ideas factory’
The co-devisers of Celebrity Juice have established a company that will operate in the space between commissioning and production.