Commissioning – Page 392
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NewsFreddie Flintoff turns pro boxer for Sky 1
Freddie Flintoff is to train with Barry McGuigan before taking part in a professional heavyweight boxing contest in a new series for Sky1.
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NewsHighflyer calls for external probe into C4 racing contract
Former Channel 4 racing producer Highflyer Productions has called for an external investigation to examine the horse racing tender process after it was given the all clear by the broadcaster.
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NewsYouTube to stream Bestival with Whizz Kid
Whizz Kid Entertainment has emerged as the production partner for YouTube’s coverage of the Bestival music festival.
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NewsLoaded TV prepares for launch
Loaded TV has begun ordering content ahead of an expected launch on 1 November.
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NewsNick Grimshaw lands BBC3 pilot
Incoming Radio 1 breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw is to front a BBC3 panel show pilot about the minor worries in life.
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NewsBBC to revive Food and Drink
Classic culinary series Food and Drink is to be relaunched fronted by celebrity chef Michel Roux Jnr.
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NewsITV boards Great Train Robbery documentary
A one-off documentary about the Great Train Robbery has been ordered to accompany forthcoming ITV1 drama Mrs Biggs.
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NewsAdam Hills lands BBC NI comedy panel show
Adam Hills, the host of Channel 4’s offbeat late night Paralympics show, is to front a new comedy panel series for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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NewsEvans named acting C4 comedy boss
Channel 4 comedy commissioner Nerys Evans is stepping up to interim head of comedy following the departure of Shane Allen to the BBC.
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NewsShaw exits C4 to join BBC
Tanya Shaw is leaving Channel 4 to join the BBC’s factual features and formats commissioning team.
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NewsThe broadcasters’ wishlist
Commissioners and controllers used the Edinburgh International TV Festival to outline the gaps in their schedules. Here’s Broadcast’s guide to what you need to be pitching to whom
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NewsTigress set for survival challenge
Explorer Ed Stafford is to attempt to stay alive for 60 days on a remote island without supplies in an extreme survival series for Discovery Channel.
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NewsC5 examines why former soldiers become criminals
Channel 5 is to investigate the growing number of ex-servicemen who end up in prison in a two-part documentary.
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NewsC4 rapped over Daddy Daycare breach
Channel 4 has been rapped for including footage of a three year-old girl without informing her parents, in Daddy Daycare.
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NewsITV1 commissions Ice Cream Girls drama
ITV has ordered a three-part drama series starring Lorraine Burroughs based a best selling novel by Dorothy Koomson.
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NewsInbetweeners star to front Comedy Central sitcom
Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison is to front a new sitcom on Comedy Central - the second original UK series from the MTV-owned channel.
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NewsITV renews Vera, Scott & Bailey and Law & Order: UK
ITV has recommissioned three of its major crime drama franchises - Vera, Law and Order: UK and Scott and Bailey.
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NewsSky orders third series of Stella
Sky has commissioned a third run of Ruth Jones’ Welsh comedy drama Stella and its first Christmas special.
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NewsWalliams to star in BBC1 school sitcom; more new commissions
Little Britain comedian David Walliams has created a new school-based sitcom for in which he will star as a chemistry teacher - one of several new comedy, drama, factual and entertainment commissions for BBC1.
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NewsSky's Murphy on what he's looking to commission
Stuart Murphy, director of Sky Entertainment Channels, has revealed what he is looking to commission from indies.