Commissioning – Page 536
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ITV1 to chart singing priests' rise to fame
Three singing priests from rural Northern Ireland who landed a£1m recording contract with Sony BMG will star in a one-off documentary for ITV1 in the run-up to Christmas.
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NewsBBC adapts Jacqueline Wilson for Christmas
Juliet Stevenson is to star in a BBC film adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's teen novel Dustbin Baby, about a girl whose life is a blur of social workers and care homes.
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NewsBBC2 to examine 80 faiths
Part-time Anglican vicar Peter Owen Jones is to explore 80 of the world's faiths in a major new religious series for BBC2.
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Sex tops C4 education slate
Channel 4 is putting sex and relationships centre stage in its upcoming education slate.
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NewsOfcom: ITV wants reduced indie quota
ITV wanted Ofcom to help it lobby the government to reduce the 25% quota of ITV1 programming that it has to source from indies, it has emerged.
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NewsBBC Vision's commissioning wishlist
As the credit crunch bites, the BBC is calling for more feel-good TV. With budgets stretched and its audience fragmented, all genres must be bold and inclusive.
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NewsBBC schedules its intentions
The BBC is feeling the credit crunch in more ways than one. Besides the staff cuts, the steadily tightening production purse strings, and the corporation's slew of economics scoops, the BBC is reshaping its schedules to relieve some of the wider economic gloom facing audiences.
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NewsBBC Vision: Michael Carrington, controller of CBeebies
Michael Carrington is on the hunt for new content for web-savvy two-to four-year-olds.
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NewsBBC Vision: Anne Gilchrist, controller of CBBC
Anne Gilchrist has taken the BBC's “fewer, bigger, better” mantra to heart and wants to find key brands that CBBC can go “hell for leather” with on all platforms.
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NewsBBC Vision: Liam Keelan, controller of daytime
Weekday mornings on BBC1 are about current affairs, presented in an accessible, tangible way that makes viewers feel empowered.
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NewsBBC Vision: Elaine Bedell, controller of entertainment
It is not long since Elaine Bedell commissioned physical gameshows Hole in the Wall and Total Wipeout for Saturday night on BBC1 but there is still room for one more, she says.
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NewsBBC Vision: Lucy Lumsden, controller of comedy
Lucy Lumsden wants about half of the BBC's sitcoms to be filmed in front of a studio audience - but currently only one in five of the ideas she receives fit the bill, so her headline plea is for more audience shows.
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NewsBBC Vision: George Entwistle, controller of knowledge
Evenings on BBC1 are a tough spot for factual, and controller of knowledge commissioning George Entwistle is looking for a pre-watershed series that will do for the channel what the “kinetic adventure” shows Amazon or Tribe have done for BBC2.
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NewsBBC Vision: Jane Tranter, outgoing controller of fiction
Top of the BBC's wish list is a few more laughs, according to Jane Tranter. These could manifest themselves in comedy drama, “dramedy”, or as touches of levity in decidedly solemn pieces.
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NewsITV poised to bring back The Krypton Factor
ITV is on the brink of reviving “television's toughest quiz show”, The Krypton Factor, after 13 years. It is understood the commercial broadcaster is close to ordering a new series of the show from ITV Productions within weeks.
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BBC4 orders WW1 drama
BBC4 has ordered a drama about the first black officer to lead British troops during World War I.
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UKTV Style homes in on fantasy trio
UKTV Style will help a host of famous faces find their dream home as part of a celebrity spin-off of its Fantasy Homes franchise.
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Woolcock develops hip-hop musical for C4
Film-maker Penny Woolcock is to return to Birmingham for a gritty hip-hop musical for Channel 4.
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NewsNo Place Like Home moves to ITV daytime
ITV is resurrecting one of its most successful peaktime factual shows from last year as a stripped daytime format.
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NewsBritannia High to air final episode live
ITV's new teen musical drama Britannia High will climax with a 75 minute live-to-air spectacular, emulating the fictional performing arts school's end of year concert.