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NewsDoctor Who's Moffat to pen modern Sherlock Holmes
Edinburgh 08: Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has teamed up with The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss for a contemporary update of Sherlock Holmes.
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NewsGranny Bangers wins Dragons' Den prize
Edinburgh 08: A pitch for a documentary entitled Granny Bangers was the overall winner of the Dragon's Den: Factual & Documentaries session, with producer/director Sarah Cronin-Stanley securing an opening with Channel 4 to explore the idea further and£1,000 in funding.
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NewsUKTV calls for new wave of property formats
Edinburgh 08: Indies need to reinvent property shows to appeal to a new demographic according to Jane Rogerson, head of commissioning at UKTV.
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NewsDay One at Edinburgh
Edinburgh 08: A round-up of the best stories from the biggest sessions on the first day of the Edinburgh TV festival.
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NewsMore 4 plans return to original drama
Edinburgh 08: More 4 head Hamish Mykura has signaled his desire for original UK drama to return to the channel as part of a new focus on giving it a broader contemporary voice.
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NewsSky plans to hire its own Apprentice
Edinburgh 08: Sky 1 controller Richard Woolfe is on the hunt for more factual formats fronted by famous faces and is hunting an Apprentice-style show for the channel.
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NewsBBC3 to boost drama output
Edinburgh 08: BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has pledged to up the amount of drama on the corporation's digital youth channel and is also looking for new sitcom ideas.
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NewsBBC and ITV call for more studio-based sitcoms
Edinburgh 08: Senior comedy commissioners from the BBC and ITV have put out a call for more studio-based sitcoms.
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News'Lord of the Flies' format crowns C4 autumn season
Two groups of children will spend three weeks without adults in a factual entertainment format for Channel 4.
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NewsMore 4 to follow race for the US presidency
More 4 is to mark November's US elections with a series of programmes including full broadcasts of every presidential debate.
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NewsFive to air unseen Peter Cook and Enoch Powell interviews
Never-before-seen interviews with Peter Cook, Robert Maxwell, Sean Connery and Enoch Powell are to be aired for the first time in 40 years as part of a new series for Five.
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NewsFive boosts factual for autumn season
Five will open the doors to the Bank of England, Lloyd's of London and the Treasury as part of its autumn season.
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Report: Execs' trust in TV is lower than viewers'
New research from Deloitte has warned the industry is in danger of talking itself into a crisis over trust in TV issues.
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NewsE4's Brooker thriller is set in Big Brother house
Charlie Brooker's E4 zombie thriller Dead Set will be set in the Big Brother house.
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NewsITV1 orders ‘Las Vegas-style' daytime show
Bradley Walsh will preside over a giant Las Vegas-style slot machine in an afternoon quiz show that will be stripped across ITV1 weekdays.
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NewsBBC2 Switch orders ‘Baywatch boot camp'
The BBC is to subject eight British adolescents to “Baywatch boot camp”, in a new 8 x 30-minute ob-doc series that aims to turn teens into US lifeguards.
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Sky One charts addict's last days
Sky One is to follow the last three months of a heroin addict's battle with an ultimately fatal addiction.
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Christie goes behind bars in Virgin series
Linford Christie and Joe Pasquale will tough it out in the world's most merciless prisons in a new factual entertainment series for Virgin 1.
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NewsBBC1 obstacle course to Wipeout contestants
BBC1 will challenge contestants to tackle the world's biggest obstacle course in a UK version of global Endemol hit Wipeout.
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NewsC4 doc looks at ‘The Charles Generation'
Men born on the same day as Prince Charles will tell their stories in a Sue Bourne documentary that forms part of Channel 4's autumn schedule.