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NewsSky One takes a Flutter on sports
Sky One has commissioned Silver River Television to make a 60-minute pilot in which celebrity guests wager their appearance fee in a new 'nonsense sports betting' show.
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Commissioner's Q&A - Liam Humphreys
Channel 4's commissioning editor, features has£140,000 per hour to spend on mischievous ideas for popular factual docs and he wants to know what indies think C4 is missing.
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Lion reconstructs mummy
Lion Television's reconstruction of The Curse of the IceMummyrequired careful grading to splice recently filmed interviews with archive footage and stills taken from 1991.
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Russian TV network takes Wedding show
All3Media International has secured pre-sales for the format to the upcoming BBC1 entertainment series Your Wedding in Their Hands.
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ID scores deals for Betty's Freaky Eaters
ID Distribution has secured a hat trick of international deals for Betty TV's new BBC3 series Freaky Eaters.
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Corrie Confidential helps ITV's afternoon revival
Last week was half-term for many schools. If you spent it at home with the kids, did you check out ITV1's new afternoon shows? They're not kids programmes exactly, I'm talking about Coronation Street Confidentialwhich aired every day last week at 3pm and ...
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BBC nets huge response from The Verdict
The BBC has had one of its biggest ever online responses to its courtroom reality series The Verdictdespite lukewarm ratings and a harsh response from critics.
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Hit poaches Copley to head Hot Animation
Hit Entertainment has hired Andi Copley as the new managing director of its animation studio Hot Animation.
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More Makeovers
ITV1 has commissioned a further 70 episodes of 60 Minute Makeover, the home improvement show hosted by former Hollyoaksactress Terri Dwyer.
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Little Bird to tell tales of a Punjabi princess
Indie Little Bird has won two new commissions with a strong Asian flavour, including a major new live action children's drama series for Five.
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Heroes delivers a massive hit for Sci Fi
The start of US drama Heroes made a big impression on The Sci Fi Channel with the show pulling in the broadcaster's highest ever audience.
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Tiscali produces content for Scamp channel
Tiscali, the ISP which bought on-demand platform Homechoice in August 2006, has produced the first piece of original content for its new educational zone aimed at pre-school children which launches next month.
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Tori goes to Living
Living has acquired hit US reality show Tori and Dean: Inn Love, which follows Tori Spelling and her husband Dean risking everything trying to build a hotel empire.
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Tomlinson film marks One Life birthday
BBC1 will mark the 50th broadcast of its documentary strand One Lifewith a film on the dark years of actor Ricky Tomlinson's life.
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NewsBBC3 reporter sets off to find eternal youth
The woman who went on a 30-day drinking binge to demonstrate the effects of alcohol abuse will be the subject of a new BBC3 series exploring how far people are prepared to go in pursuit of eternal youth.
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NewsFive slams TV cancer claim
Five director of children's programmes, Nick Wilson, has rubbished a psychologist's claims that children under three should be banned from watching TV because it is linked to cancer, autism and Alzheimer's disease.
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NewsRecriminations begin over Richard & Judy
A row has broken out over who is to blame for the alleged misuse of premium rate phone lines on Channel 4's Richard and Judy Showbetween producer Cactus TV and Eckoh, which runs the show's phone service.
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NewsDesperate Housewives to run until 2011
US studio ABC has signed up Desperate Housewivescreator Mark Cherry for a further four years. The eight-figure deal will secure the future of the hit US show until 2011.
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NewsSky One pulls Sport Uncovered
Sky One has pulled Sport Uncoveredfrom its Tuesday night schedule after the first episode of the series only attracted 60,000 viewers - less than a third of Sky One's slot average for Tuesdays at 10pm last year.
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C4I lines up drama offer for MipTV
A BBC1 drama-documentary from Touching the Voidproducer Darlow Smithson and the first TV comedy from Trainspottingauthor Irvine Welsh are among the highlights of Channel 4 International's programme at MipTV.