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Commissioner's Q & A: Paul Crompton
Commissioning editor, popular factual at Sky One is looking for more faces like Danny Wallace and Julie Burchill to front shows and for big ideas to fill the 9pm weekday slot.
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C4 brings back squirtgate pranksters
The Channel 4 entertainment series that was responsible for Tom Cruise being sprayed with a water pistol before a film premiere has been recommissioned. Objective's Balls of Steel will return for an as yet undecided run of 45-minute episodes helmed by Mark Dolan, who will continue his part-time presenting role ...
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C4 follows unusual beauty pageant
Channel 4 is to delve into the world of beauty pageants with an hour-long documentary commission with a twist. Plus Size Beauty Pageant (working title) is the story of a group of British women attempting to put on a US-style beauty pageant, but for size 16 and above women. C4 ...
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Frost to front ITV London politics show
Sir David Frost has been signed up to present ITV London's new politics show, as the network revamps its regional political programming. Produced by Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions, Frost Tonight will broadcast on Thursday evenings from January, covering all the major political issues in the capital. It will ...
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Third Best of Friends on way to CBBC
Indie Talent TV has won a third commission for its CBBC entertainment show Best of Friends. The indie is to make 20 half-hour episodes, which tasks 10-year-olds to prove how much their friends mean to them by undertaking challenges. It was developed by Jonathan Wolfman from an original idea by ...
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New south-west indie bags order
Former BBC documentaries controller Jeremy Gibson has teamed up with two former indie heads and an ex-editor of Channel 4's Big Breakfast to launch a production outfit in the south-west.
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Redgrave rows in
Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave, the rower who bagged six gold medals for Great Britain, is to star in a new ITV1 factual show. Made by Outline Productions, Redgrave will be charged with turning eight youngsters from inner-city Liverpool into top-class rowers. He will gather a team of expert coaches, ...
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Wright heads west
Football pundit and presenter Ian Wright is taking to the road across America in a new 10 x 60-minute series for Men and Motors. Ordered by commissioning editor Joe Talbot, Wright Across America from Thumbs Up Productions, will see Wright cross the US on a Harley-Davidson. The series, starting on ...
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Carbon nets C4 doc
Indie Carbon Media is to follow two gay clergy members for Channel 4 as they take advantage of changes in the law to get married. Love and the Church (working title) follows an Anglican Church priest and a vicar from the Metropolitan Church who are marrying their partners. The idea ...
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Endemol risks it all on Space Cadets
Endemol UK - the creator of Big Brother and There's Something About Miriam - has admitted it is taking its biggest ever risk by launching a reality show which pretends to send members of the public into space. The wannabe astronauts that feature in C4's Space Cadets will believe they ...
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Village show competition to air on BBC
One of Britain's national institutions, the village show, is to be examined on BBC1 in a series described as 'Pop Idol with vegetables'. The Great British Village Show from 12 Yard Productions will be filmed next summer, with broadcast set for 2007 in a Sunday night slot. Six 40-minute regional ...
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Martha Stewart's Apprentice axed
US broadcaster NBC has axed the struggling Martha Stewart version of The Apprentice, denting the show's chances in the UK. Industry speculation had suggested that the BBC and Talkback Thames were considering producing a local female-fronted version of the reality show, to run as a companion to the Sir Alan ...
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How (not) to pitch
What's the secret of a successful pitch? Broadcast asked a leading figure from each side of the fence and found they agreed on one crucial point: best never admit you are doing anything as vulgar as selling.
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NewsGranada plans new versionof The Prisoner
It's a cult classic which has provoked decades of speculation and interpretation. Now Number 6 is coming back to our screens in a remake of the 1960s adventure series The Prisoner.
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NewsC4 debuts online comedy channel
Channel 4 is to launch a second broadband channel next year which will allow up and coming comedians to showcase their acts online.
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BBC unveils horror strand
The BBC's drama department is to follow the success of its paranormal thriller Sea of Souls by developing a contemporary horror strand for BBC1 and is currently considering pitches from indies for the slot.
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NewsC4 risks offence with Xmas shows
Channel 4is set to offend religious sensibilities this Christmas with a schedule featuring shows guaranteed to enrage a range of denominations.
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NewsC4 takes reality series to space
Channel 4's new reality show, Space Cadets, is to be a practical joke on a grand scale - involving unwitting contestants, special effects, and 48 packs of Russian toilet paper.
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NewsITV beefs up for winter
ITV has unveiled its winter schedule which ITV1 director of programmes Nigel Pickard has branded 'classic ITV at its best'.
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NewsTony Robinson to front C4 politics show
8am: Comic actor-turned history presenter Tony Robinson is to turn his attention to the world of modern politics for a new Channel 4 documentary.