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NewsBBC3 takes the wheel for new driving series
BBC3 is to turn the spotlight on family relationships, in a new 60-minute pilot about parents teaching their children to drive.
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NewsITV1 calls for Total Emergency
Sheffield's police, fire and ambulance crews will be the focus of a six-part series for ITV1 as part of the broadcasters factual output this autumn.
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NewsVariety show leads ITV1 autumn line-up
A modern day variety show will be the centrepiece of the entertainment line-up on ITV1 this autumn.
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NewsSports stars line up for new Disney series
Disney Channel UK will follow the paths of five UK sporting stars as they surprise fans and budding athletes on their doorsteps.
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NewsITV reveals 12 Yard format
12 Yard's first gameshow pilot for ITV will feature contestants trying to win money from 20 different coloured cash machines.
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NewsBBC2 orders witchcraft murder drama
Adaptation specialist Joe Penhall has penned an original three-part drama for BBC2 about a mutilated body pulled from the Thames.
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NewsMarr to cover Big Bang for R4
BBC Radio 4 has been granted exclusive access to the CERN control room to cover physicists trying to recreate the aftermath of the Big Bang.
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NewsBBC2 lines up ‘19th century Entourage'
BBC2 is to lay bare the sex and drugs lifestyle of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, in a “rude gang drama” pitched as a 19th century Entourage.
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NewsFive takes fishing to the extreme
Five is to tackle some of the world's wildest marine life in Extreme Fishing with Robson Green.
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NewsITV4 bolsters sports coverage as Fewings lands promotion
ITV4 channel editor Dave Fewings has been appointed as the channel's controller and has made a slew of sports commissions, with the focus on cycling, darts and -football.
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No Going Back family to advise new migrants
An expat family in Tuscany that featured in Channel 4's fact ent series No Going Back are to advise the latest Brits moving to the region for a new format.
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BBC4 follows Smith on first foreign holiday
BBC4 is to send veteran actress Liz Smith on her first-ever holiday abroad in a one-off documentary that it sees as a potential strand about celebrities' unrealised ambitions.
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NewsChung and Holland to front T4 fashion
Gok's Fashion Fix co-presenter Alexa Chung is to front a second weekly Channel 4 fashion magazine show - the first style news programme for teen strand T4.
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NewsSimpson to teach war reporting for BBC2 series
John Simpson will teach adventurers Ranulph Fiennes and Robin Knox-Johnston to file news reports from a war-zone as part of a series for BBC2.
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NewsITV orders Welsh millionaires series
Wales' top millionaires are baring all for a new ITV series that will get under the skin of the country's richest people.
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NewsC4 to present Britain through foreign eyes
Channel 4 has commissioned a series of shorts from Tiger Aspect, to be filmed by foreign students on attachment with the indie.
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NewsR1 agony uncle to front BBC doc
Radio 1's Dr Mark Hamilton is to launch a crusade on underage binge-drinking in an investigative doc for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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NewsITV reorders National Movie Awards
ITV is rolling out the red carpet again for coverage of the second National Movie Awards in September.
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NewsAvalon to give BBC3 Mouth to Mouth
Avalon Television is to produce BBC3's first multiplatform comedy-drama, which will air on the web and mobile phones before moving to TV.
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NewsRevived Minder will stick to original's principles, says Five
Five has revealed details of its revival of ITV classic Minder, promising the show will have the “pre-watershed sensibility” of the original.