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NewsComedy Blaps delivers first C4 TX pilot
The Rubberbandits is the first Comedy Blap to earn a broadcast pilot for Channel 4 following a successful online debut.
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NewsPratchett off to Borneo for BBC2
Fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett is to travel to Borneo and track down an orangutan king as he contemplates the meaning of mankind’s existence for a new BBC2 documentary.
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NewsC4 boosts fact ent commissioning with two hires
Channel 4 has bolstered its fact ent commissioning team, responsible for some of the broadcaster’s biggest hits – including Big Fat Gypsy Weddings – with two appointments.
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NewsC4 to rework SFTW as Sunday Brunch
Channel 4 has effectively picked up axed BBC2 magazine show Something for the Weekend, after commissioning Princess Productions to make a Sunday morning series.
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NewsSky Living looks to give concerned celebs a platform
Sky Living is considering a strand called Cause Celeb in which celebrities explore a different cause or issue that is important to them personally.
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NewsC4 to spotlight Secret Eaters
Overweight families will be put under 24-hour surveillance for a Channel 4 series that aims to examine the psychology and science of eating habits.
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NewsGood Food to follow hunt for Roux scholar
Good Food is to revisit the Roux family for a one-off doc tracking its hunt for a new culinary scholar.
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NewsDarlow to make Concordia film
Darlow Smithson Productions is producing a new documentary about the Costa Concordia disaster for Discovery Networks International.
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NewsLuton extremists to feature in C4 doc
English Defence League co-founder Tommy Robinson and Sayful Islam, who has disrupted the homecoming parade of British troops, are to feature in a new Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsC4 Gypsy ad stirs protest
Ads for C4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings have sparked complaints from the London Gypsy Traveller Unit and two London Assembly Members.
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NewsBarrowman fronts ITV1 comedy pilot
John Barrowman has fronted an ITV1 comedy panel show pilot that put his life under the spotlight.
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NewsITV1 eyes Jonathan Ross panel show
Jonathan Ross is gearing up to pilot an ITV1 comedy panel show inspired by Twitter.
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NewsSteps returning to Sky Living
Reformed pop group Steps are to feature in a second series for Sky Living, tracking their 22-date comeback tour around the UK.
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NewsC4 acquires Black Cab Sessions
Channel 4 has picked up online music format The Black Cab Sessions USA, which has been adapted into a longer form for TV.
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NewsBBC3 reboots Snog, Marry, Avoid
BBC3’s make-under show Snog, Marry, Avoid is being refreshed for its fifth series with comedian Ellie Taylor as presenter.
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NewsTwenty Twenty recruited for BBC1 conscripts drama
The final intake of National Service men is to be dramatised by Twenty Twenty in a new commission for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsWhisper races off with first BBC1 commission
Whisper Films has won its first commission since being set up a year ago - a doc with the brother of Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton.
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NewsSky boosts Isle of Wight coverage
Sky is upping its live coverage of this year’s Isle of Wight Festival to 18 hours - including broadcasts in 3D.
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NewsITV1 eyeing new Surprise Surprise
ITV1 is set to dust off classic show Surprise Surprise - more than a decade after its last appearance.
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NewsITV1 to chart TV's most memorable moments
ITV1 is to celebrate the most popular moments in television history ahead of Britain completing the digital switchover this year.