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NewsC4 planning repeats channel
Channel 4 looks set to launch a new station that would show the last seven days most popular programmes.
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NewsVictoria Wood writing new BBC drama
Victoria Wood is penning a 90-minute film for BBC1 following her commercial and critical success with biopic Eric and Ernie.
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NewsBBC1 orders War of the Roses drama
BBC1 will air 24 new dramas in 2012 after adding three literary adaptations, a trucking series and a special from the makers of The Gruffalo to its winter slate.
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NewsBBC orders more Saturday Kitchen
Saturday Kitchen, the BBC1 weekend food show hosted by James Martin, has been recommissioned for another 12 months.
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NewsC4 awards Dispatches contracts
Channel 4 has awarded Blakeway Productions, October Films, Nine Lives Media and ITN Productions contracts to make programmes for the Dispatches strand in 2012.
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NewsBox TV wins Asian Beats pilot
Channel 4 and Bauer Media’s joint venture Box TV has won a TX pilot for a new music show trumpeting the British Asian scene.
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NewsLeft Bank developing Mandela drama
Nelson Mandela is to be the focus of a big budget mini-series co-developed by Left Bank Pictures.
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NewsNorth One Australia lands series with child star
North One’s Aussie arm has won a commission to make a kids adventure series featuring ‘Australia’ child star Brandon Walters.
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NewsC4 reveals indie briefing timetable
Channel 4 has unveiled the list of indie meetings chief creative officer Jay Hunt will hold across the country in 2012.
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NewsITV1 eyes Lloyd-Webber talent show
ITV1 is close to luring Lord Lloyd-Webber away from the BBC to front a fresh musical talent show.
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NewsGypsy Blood to be first True Stories film on C4
Gypsy Blood, a film tracing the tradition of fist fighting in the traveller community, will be the first True Stories film to be shown on Channel 4.
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NewsGiles Coren to serve up history of food for BBC2
Giles Coren is to front a new series for BBC2 investigating the history of food throughout the British Isles.
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NewsDes Lynam returns to ITV with Muhammad Ali series
Des Lynam is to front a new ITV series charting Muhammad Ali’s greatest fights - his first major show for the broadcaster since leaving eight years ago.
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NewsNutopia lands second History mega-doc
Nutopia’s latest mega-doc will be a 12-hour series for History detailing the building of the Pyramids, the construction of the Great Wall of China and the creation of Easter Island statues.
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NewsMPs urge more transparency from C4
MPs have voiced more concerns about Channel 4’s transparency and accountability in fulfilling its public service remit - and reacted to the broadcaster’s handling of the Frankie Boyle controversy.
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NewsC4 lines-up two Alternative Christmas Messages
Channel 4 is to broadcast two alternatives to the Queen’s Christmas Day speech for the first time.
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NewsRicky Gervais working on C4 pilot
Ricky Gervais is working on his first sitcom pilot for Channel 4 in which he plays a “confused” worker at a retirement home.
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NewsBedlam returning to Sky Living
Sky Living is returning to the lunatic asylum for a second series of its original drama Bedlam, with an EastEnders actress replacing Will Young in the lead role.
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NewsTom Clarke made C4 News science editor
Channel 4 News’ science correspondent, Tom Clarke, has been appointed as the programme’s first science editor.
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C4's Home for The Holidays gets online series
Channel 4’s live stripped entertainment programme, Home For The Holidays, is the latest programme to get a live online spin-off series.