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RDF in first-look deal with Maverick
RDF Rights has signed a two-year, first-look development deal with Birmingham-based Maverick Television for the company's international TV and consumer product rights.
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Discovery to make masthead show with IPC
Discovery has teamed up with magazine publisher IPC to make a masthead show based around its home and design magazine Livingetc.
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Format focus: Ruth 66
The latest reality series from Swedish producer Strix sends a group of pensioners off on a road trip to encounter bikers, supermodels and artists.
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Top of the Pops sells to South America
BBC music show Top of the Popshas been picked up by Latin American entertainment channel People + Arts, a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery. The programme will be broadcast shortly after its transmission in the UK, with presenter links from Fearne Cotton and guest presenters ...
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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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GI shares catalogue with BBC America
BBC America has signed a two-year deal that will allow it to cherry-pick 160 hours of programmes from Granada International's back catalogue of drama and comedy. The deal will give BBC America access to a range of Granada International's back catalogue as well as new programmes. The titles involved are ...
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Sky One lines up coke and Viagra
Sky One is to explore the use of cocaine and Viagra as part of its autumn season.
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Shine makes high-risk property show for C4
Indie Shine is making a new property series for Channel 4 following budding property magnates as they try to make a killing overseas.
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C4 orders more autopsies from von Hagens
Professor Gunther von Hagens is to make a return to the screens as he probes the causes of death for a Channel 4 series made by indie Firefly.
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RDF cooks up foodie faking it for C4
RDF is making a culinary version of its hit format Faking Itfor Channel 4. In Cooking It, contestants will be challenged to turn basic ingredients into mouthwatering dishes good enough to fool a panel of food experts into thinking they are professional ...
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Ex-Clinton spokesman for Sky News
BSkyB has hired Bill Clinton's former spokesman James Rubin to present a show on Sky News. World News Tonightwill see Rubin presenting a weekday 60-minute roundup of the big international stories and will include interviews with key figures on the international stage. The show, which is ...
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Talkback makes history for Five kids
Talkback Thames is making a history show for Five's children's strand Shake. Heroes of Historysees Fran Beauman and Ania Dykczak taking on a different character each week, getting inside their skins by living the life they would have led - mastering horseriding as Joan of Arc, ...
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Collins and Eve in BBC1 fertility drama
Former EastEndersactress Michelle Collins and Waking the Deadstar Trevor Eve are to star in a new BBC1 drama set in the world of fertility treatment. The Family Manfollows four couples struggling with various aspects of IVF treatment, from ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Andrea Hamilton
Sky One's new commissioning editor, features and daytime is proud of her Taste, loves The X Factor and is looking for entertaining lifestyle ideas that appeal to men as much as women.
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Lawson moves to BBC2 for Xmas show
Nigella Lawson is to host a new BBC2 show called Nigella's Chocolate Christmas Special. The 60-minute show, which is being produced by Bristol-based independent Quickfire Media, will feature recipes and on location footage from places including the Eden Project cocoa plantation. Former BBC independents executive Elaine ...
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Sharman orders Pratchett drama
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel. Zoë Wanamaker, Frank Finlay and Keith Barron have been lined up to star in Johnny and the Bomb. The 3 x 50-minute series is being ...
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MTV sells top buzzer
MTV Networks International has sold the format of its successful comedy/drama Top Buzzerto Comedy Central in the US. The 'dope opera' premiered on MTV in November 2004 and is scheduled to air on Five from next month. The series was created by MTV's The Greenhouse, a ...
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Sky Travel buys
Sky Travel has bought Taboo, a popular factual series from National Geographic Television International which looks at different cultures. The 11 x 60-minute show features guinea pig-eating in Peru, Hindi devotees who put steel hooks through their skin and people who live in cemeteries in the ...
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BBC2 boat trip
Comedians Griff Rhys-Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain are to strip off as part of a bid to recreate the river trip that inspired the Jerome K Jerome book, Three Men in a Boat. Made by indie Liberty Bell Productions, the 2 x 60-minute programme for BBC2 ...