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NewsExtreme Sports airs virtual World Cup
The Liberty Global-owned Extreme Sports Channel has joined up with Microsoft's Xbox to air coverage of a video gaming -competition described as the World Cup on console.
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Format Focus: How to get the guy
The producers of Queer Eye for the Straight Guyreturn with a new romantic reality series
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Endemol sells Spoons to Germany
Channel 4 sketch show Spoons has become the latest Endemol UK format to sell around the world.
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Quickfire wins Timewatch tsunami order
Bristol-based Quickfire Media has been commissioned to make a 60-minute film about the devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami which hit Crete in 1600BC for Timewatchon BBC2. The programme will look at new evidence about the scale of the eruption and 120-foot waves it produced. The ...
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UKTV history looks at wartime love lives
UKTV History has commissioned a series exploring the British pursuit of sex and love during the Second World War. Sex, Love and Warlooks at people who pushed aside convention and broke many of the taboos that existed in Britain in the 1940s. Made by Bristol-based ...
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Combat Club to return to Five
Five's Saturday morning kids strand, Shake!,has commissioned a second series of Combat Club, in which six children are trained in 13 different martial arts or combat disciplines. Selected for their sporting ability, the children are taught core combat sport moves ...
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Commissioner's Q & A
The UKTV commissioning executive (entertainment) has an eye for talent and wants shows that take its core UKTV Gold concept forward while for UKTV G2's younger audience, it's edgy comedy that appeals
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Five to air docu-soap about lemur families
Five and Animal Planet UK are following up the hit franchise Meerkat Manorwith a new animal soap opera exploring the lives of lemurs in Madagascar.
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BBC series to try out dream jobs
BBC presenter Adrian Chiles is to try his hand at dream jobs for a new daytime series for BBC1, being made by Cardiff-based indie Aspect Television.
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Sky Sports 4 to air
BSkyB is considering the launch of a fifth sports channel, lodging the licence name Sky Sports 4 with Ofcom. The media regulator has awarded the licence for a cable and satellite channel so the offering will not be available on the digital terrestrial platform. Sky currently owns Sky Sports 1, ...
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Proms has Klass
Former CD:UKpresenter Myleene Klass has been hired by the BBC to add a touch of glamour to its classical music coverage, giving her a presenting role for BBC4's coverage of this year's Proms.
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Mr Bean comeback
Mr Beanis making a TV comeback ahead of the theatrical release of the new Bean IImovie, expected to be next year. Nickelodeon UK and Paramount Comedy Channel have picked up the rights to air the original ITV Mr Beanepisodes, marking ...
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Bravo shows Army Everest bid
Bravo is to help promote the British Army to its viewers through an advertiser-funded series detailing one of the armed forces' toughest training exercises - reaching the summit of Everest.
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C4 bids against ITV for The Inventor
ITV is locked in a bidding war with Channel 4 for the rights to hit format The Inventor, created by Dragons' Denjudge Peter Jones.
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Old school tie still worn in newsroom
The image of TV newsrooms as the preserve of privately educated journalists has been given further credence after a survey showed that more than 60% of the UK's leading news presenters went to independent schools.
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NewsBBC swoops on US teen drama
Blonde beach babes in bikinis and hunks in trunks sound like the kind of US import that might be snapped up by E4, Sky One or maybe even Five. But the BBC has emerged as the surprise buyer of Falcon Beach, the most talked about ...
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Sky to Flaunt it with new gay channel
Flaunt, the 24-hour music channel owned by BSkyB and managed by the Chart Show Group, is being hauled out of the closet.
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NewsBBC chiefs consider 30-min peaktime Panorama
The BBC is considering making Panoramaa half-hour weekday programme as part of the changes surrounding the recruitment of a new editor.
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Discovery gives Nat Geo deja vu
The National Geographic Channel is considering taking legal action over two of its formats which it says Discovery Networks has ripped off.
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NewsSecond series could be last for Green Wing
Channel 4 has commissioned a one-off feature-length episode of Green Wing that will tie up loose plot lines but feed speculation that the comedy will not return for a third series.