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Endemol to produce Bebo music show
Endemol is to make a daily music magazine show for social networking site Bebo, to be funded by Samsung Mobile.
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NewsVictim's son to front Madoff doc
The son of a British soldier who killed himself after his family’s life savings were swallowed up in Bernie Madoff’s $50bn swindle is to front a BBC2 doc on the subject.
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Snog Marry Avoid goes abroad
BBC3 ‘make-under’ format Snog Marry Avoid? is to venture overseas to tackle the holiday style of Brits abroad in its third series.
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NewsTennant to voice animated Doctor Who series
David Tennant is to voice an animated spin-off series of Doctor Who set to debut this autumn.
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BBC orders online sketch show from RDF
The BBC has commissioned an online sketch show featuring a vicar and a rabbi grappling with their laddish tendencies.
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BBC4 to dramatise life of Fonteyn
Anne-Marie Duff, star of The Virgin Queen and Is Anybody There?, is to play late ballet icon Dame Margot Fonteyn in a BBC4 biopic.
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iTunes Festival returns to ITV2
Kasabian, Oasis and Snow Patrol are set for ITV2 this summer, with commissioners ordering a second dose of the iTunes Live: London Festival.
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T4 orders celeb eye-view doc
Channel 4 has ordered a showbiz pilot from Whizz Kid Entertainment where a pin-hole camera fixed at eye-level follows celebrities for a day to see how they really live.
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NewsGladiators out, Gray in at Murphy's Sky 1
Stuart Murphy has stamped his authority on Sky 1 by axing Gladiators and Don’t Forget the Lyrics and luring Duncan Gray to the channel as commissioning editor for entertainment.
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Animal Planet hooks second Icon fish series
Bristol-based indie Icon Films has been commissioned by US cable channel Animal Planet to make a second run of its fishing adventure series, River Monsters.
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NewsBBC staff angry at £10m Discovery commission
BBC Natural History Unit staff are upset after its former head, Keith Scholey, won a £10m-plus commission from Discovery with an idea similar to one they also pitched.
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NewsBBC2 to look at key to success for John Lewis
BBC2 will look at John Lewis’s 150-year history and how the department store business is weathering the current recession in a documentary series.
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Suchet on board Orient Express for ITV1 history doc
Life will imitate art for Poirot actor David Suchet as he takes the Orient Express across Europe for an ITV1 documentary.
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Gyles Brandreth to host BBC2 quiz show Knowitalls
BBC2 is to air a quiz show without any questions. Knowitalls will be hosted by politician-turned-Countdown regular Gyles Brandreth.
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BBC1 will profile life of World War vet Harry Patch
The modern-day life of Harry Patch, the last surviving fighting soldier of the First World War, will be profiled in a one-off documentary for BBC1.
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Give us the WoCC, radio indies tell BBC management
Radio indies are urging the BBC to extend the Window of Creative Commission to its radio output.
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BBC1 to hunt Junior Apprentice
Sir Alan Sugar will challenge 10 teenagers to win a £25,000 career boost in spin-off series Junior Apprentice.
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BBC names new Scotland commissioner
The BBC has hired Sam Anthony as its knowledge commissioning executive producer for Scotland – fresh from Jane Root’s new indie Nutopia.
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Attenborough to unveil 'missing link'
David Attenborough is set to explore the 47 million-year-old ‘missing link’ in human evolution in a primetime BBC documentary.
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Generation Kill director joins BBC drama
BBC1’s sci-fi thriller Paradox will be directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Generation Kill) and will star Tamzin Outhwaite.