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Walking on the wild side
Bethan Corney has perfected the art of reworking documentaries for broadcast on Five. Now she's taking on the BBC with original commissions.
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Five ponders Trisha
Five is looking for more vehicles for talkshow host Trisha Goddard. Director of programmes Dan Chambers said he has lined up a 'reality event' show and another involving 'quirky individuals', but had yet to decide between the two. Trisha currently hosts Trisha Goddardon Five.
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Living branches out
Living TV director Richard Woolfe said the channel was no longer looking to commission shows for its pink and paranormal strands and was on the look out for the 'next big, noisy breakthrough genre'. He said the channel's budget is£20,000 per half hour for daytime and£100,000 plus for primetime.
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Discovery reinvents
Discovery UK senior vice-president and channel director, Jill Offman said she wanted to shake off the Discovery Channel's image of 'sharks and Nazis' and is looking to commission more drama with a human element. Where possible programmes would be shot in high definition.
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Channel 4 draws a blank for breakfast
Channel 4 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has admitted that he is still no closer to finding a new breakfast show, despite having heard pitches for nearly two years.
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More4 invests in British drama
Channel 4 has earmarked budgets of between£300,000 and£1m for 60-minute documentaries on new factual digital channel More4.
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NewsITV1 signs up cancer charity show
ITV1 has acquired the rights to broadcast the ASDA Tickled Pink breast cancer awareness event, featuring music acts including Westlife and Sheryl Crow, for its Saturday night schedule.
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NewsParamount orders You've Been Maimed
Paramount Comedy has picked up a new clip show dubbed the You've Been Framedfor the Jackass generation.
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Forsyth makes plea for missing Palladium tapes.
Bruce Forsyth has thrown his weight behind ITV's BFI-backed campaign Missing Believed Wiped, in a bid to uncover classic Sunday Night at the Palladium shows, writes Colin Robertson.
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NewsFive orders 'thirtysomething' drama.
Five has made a rare two-hour drama, Perfect Day, for its autumn schedule.
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NewsBBC dramatises Paddington rail crash
BBC1 is to air a docu-drama based on the Paddington rail disaster in which 31 people died.
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NewsBBC reporter 'greys up' for sting show
BBC1 undercover expos programme Rogue Tradershas used an Oscar-nominated make-up artist to turn its presenter into a pensioner to catch out shifty tradesmen.
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Cineflix wins ITV and Sky orders
Canadian producer/distributor Cineflix's recently formed UK production arm has won a number of commissions, including a 15-part ITV series.
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Redback chews on first orders
TV Corp subsidiary Redback has scored its first commissions since it launched in February, winning a series of factual orders from Sky One.
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Shine launches Navy doc for BBC1
Indie Shine has bolstered its factual slate with a pair of series commissions for BBC1 and ITV1.
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ITV revs up vehicles for Jason, Kemp and Outhwaite
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned new vehicles for star signings David Jason, Tamzin Outhwaite and Martin Kemp, writesPaul Revoir.
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ITV and VH1 co-commission flame
ITV London and VH1 have co-commissioned a 6 x 30-minute series called Fame Wrecked My Lifefrom Flame Television. The series will look at the downside of fame, and will feature former Hear'say singer Myleene Klass, Lee McDonald who played Zammo in Grange ...
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Ware picks bloom for community
The Community Channel's new channel controller Nick Ware has made his first commissions. RHS Britain in Bloomis a 45-minute special following three communities representing their region in the national Britain in Bloom finals. Meanwhile Beach Loversis a 30 minute spin-off show of ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Peter Johnston
BBC Northern Ireland's head of broadcast is on the lookout for history and political documentaries and series that ...