Commissioning – Page 664
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ITV plans two more audiences with...
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned two further An Audience with...specials featuring I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!winner Joe Pasquale and 'pub landlord' comedian Al Murray. The shows, which are expected to air on ITV1 from March, will ...
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Celebs pick top TV moments for UKTV
UKTV has asked celebrities to recall their favourite TV moments for a 60-minute show to air across eight of its 10 channels. Commissioned by director of network programming Charlotte Ashton, TV Firstsis made by Prospect Pictures and is part of a season celebrating TV. It will ...
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Chancellor on the Community Channel
Channel 4 Newsanchor Jon Snow is to interview chancellor Gordon Brown as part of a series of high-profile interviews for charity service the Community Channel. The 4 x 30-minute series, The Jon Snow Interviews, will air from the end of February, as part of the channel's ...
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Sky covers Oscars
Sky's live coverage of the 2005 Academy Awards is to be presented by Sharon Osbourne. Based in LA on Sunday 27 February, the X Factorjudge will front a preview show on Sky One at 7pm, followed by live coverage on Sky Movies 1 from 1.30am. She will ...
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NewsBBC plans VE Day specials
The BBC is preparing to mark the 60th anniversary of VE Day this summer with a raft of programming, including a Surprise Surprise-style entertainment show that will reunite old comrades.
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NewsC4 in talks to bring Behzti row to screen
Channel 4 is in talks with the producers of the controversial play Behztiabout screening excerpts of the play as part of an investigation into beliefs and the media.
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Hat Trick takes on Robinson
Steely host Anne Robinson is to follow up Weakest Linkwith a light-hearted topical show for BBC1 from the makers of Have I Got News for You.
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ITV2 signs Shed football spin-off
ITV1 hit Footballers' Wivesis to be spun off into a new ITV2 series - the first original drama the channel has ever commissioned.
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NewsCurtis pens G8 drama for BBC
Love Actuallywriter Richard Curtis is to write his first drama for the BBC with a 90-minute special set at a G8 summit.
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Five signs Sunset for another three years
Indie Sunset + Vine is to make 1,500 hours of programming for Five after the broadcaster renewed its contract with the company for sports content until 2007.
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Princess gains bumper C4 order
Channel 4 has commissioned Princess Productions to make 75 hours of a new gardening show as part of a strategy to pull in middle-aged adults to the daytime schedule.
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Trisha to front outrageous TV clips on Five
Five is to extend its Greatest TV Momentsstrand and has secured new daytime signing Trisha Goddard to present the first of the new batch.
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Van Outen in drama
Former Big Breakfastpresenter and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is. Van Outen will play district nurse and single mum Kim Blakeney, who moves to rural Yorkshire to start a ...
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BBC1 to chart a year in the Navy year to fill
The BBC has commissioned a major documentary series charting a year in the life of the Royal Navy as part of the commemorations surrounding the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.
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MTV on series buying spree
MTV has commissioned a slate of new series, including a British version of car makeover show Pimp My Ride.
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Double order for September
Indie September Films has landed two new commissions, including a primetime special for ITV1 about nightmare nannies.
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Bravo to screen two FHM ventures
Bravo has teamed up with men's magazine FHMfor two new projects. The 60-minute Giant/Emap co-production The World Poker Exchange London Open, to air later this year, will follow 10 FHM readers as they play for£1m. It will also be broadcast on Flextech-owned ...
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C4 revisits soho for 1970s season
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN Factual to make Paul Raymond: The King of Soho, a documentary on the life and times of the renowned porn baron. The 60-minute programme, commissioned by C4 head of history and religion Hamish Mykura, will be narrated by ...
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Brideshead special leads off ITV3 rerun
Indie Free@Last TV has been commissioned to make an documentary on the classic ITV drama Brideshead Revisitedfor ITV3. Ordered by Daniela Neumann, controller of commissioned programmes for ITV2/ITV3, the hour-long Revisiting Bridesheadwill accompany a repeat of the series in September. Barry Ryan ...
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Airborne to look at 21st-century bras
Kent-based Airborne TV has bagged its first multichannel commission for Discovery Health to make Bra Wars - Boom or Bust. The 60-minute documentary, due to air at the end of February, will feature model Rachel Hunter and look at the 21st-century bra industry. Garry Grant will ...