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NewsBBC making Proops biopic
The BBC is developing a biopic of the former Daily Mirror agony aunt Marje Proops who worked until she died aged 85.
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NewsPrimeval weekend unveiled
ITV3 is to air a new behind-the-scenes documentary from the set of Primeval as part of a weekend devoted to the fantasy series.
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NewsJohn McCarthy to front religious art series
Sky Arts has hired broadcaster and former hostage John McCarthy to narrate and present a three-part part documentary series on the art and architecture of religious buildings.
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NewsRhodes returns to UKTV Food
Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes is to hunt for more of Britain's unsung culinary champions for UKTV Food.
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NewsITV to show big babies
ITV is to air a 60-minute doc from indie Scarlet charting the biggest babies ever born.
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Old bands return to Living
Living will re-unite legendary bands to try to restore them to former glories as part of its summer schedule. Pop Goes the Band is a 6 x 60-minute reality show by ITV Productions in which bands will undergo complete transformations, in some cases plastic surgery, as they prepare to face ...
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NewsBafta-winning Peep Show gets sixth run
Channel 4 has ordered a sixth series of Peep Show following the sitcom's Bafta success.
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NewsBBC1 and BBC2 series to tackle climate change
The BBC is planning a “definitive” look at climate change in two major linked commissions across its terrestrial channels.
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NewsFive orders US killer doc double
Five has commissioned two documentaries that track the grisly stories behind some of the most notorious and horrifying crimes in recent US history.
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Waking the Dead to return
BBC1 dramas Waking the Dead and Silent Witness are to return in 2009.
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Nesbitt in sectarian dramas
James Nesbitt is to star in Five Minutes of Heaven, a one-off drama for BBC drama Northern Ireland about the murder of a Catholic teenager in Belfast in 1975.
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Cornish town to get an extreme makeover
UKTV Style will follow Extreme Makeover host Ty Pennington as he sets out to transform a rundown Cornish coastal town.
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NewsAlistair Cooke at centre of BBC4 season on travel
BBC4 has lined up a summer season on the expansion of travel in the 20th century, as seen through the lives and writing of figures such as Alistair Cooke and Laurie Lee.
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Lone Star hails the cab for third transport film
The indie behind Arena documentaries Underground and Little Platform, Big Stage is to complete its trilogy of films on London transport with a glimpse into the lives of taxi drivers.
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NewsCBBC orders 'deadly' wildlife show
CBBC is to focus on the world's most deadly animals, in what is billed as its most ambitious presenter-led natural history series to date.
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NewsC4 orders more Vodafone gigs
Bands including Gnarls Barkley, the Sugababes and the Feeling are to appear in the third series of Vodafone TBA concerts to be broadcast on Channel 4.
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NewsFive mulls new 10pm strand on unusual sex
Five is to broadcast two films about unusual sexual practices that it plans to turn into a 10pm Hidden Lives-style strand called Strangelove.
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The Big Pitch kicks off
Applications have opened for British feature-length documentary pitches for this year's Britdoc event.
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Virgin 1 plans ‘rude season' this autumn
Virgin 1 is to return its gaze to private parts this autumn with a selection of programmes it has grouped into a “rude season”.
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NewsHammond to investigate mega-structures
Top Gear star Richard Hammond is to examine the stories behind some of the world's most ambitious structures in a new series for National Geographic US and NGI.