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NewsC4 recommissions Piers Morgan
Channel 4 has flown in the face of critical opinion by commissioning a second run of the political talkshow fronted by former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and ex-Conservative spin doctor Amanda Platell.
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NewsFive beefs up wildlife output
Five has boosted its natural history line-up by acquiring 13 hours of wildlife programming from distributor National Geographic.
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NewsC4 unveils Celebrity Big Brother
Channel 4 is cashing in on the success of Big Brother 5 by bringing back its celebrity spin-off, Celebrity Big Brother , for an extended run.
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Yipp gets C4 order about living with cancer
YIPP Films is to follow up its award-winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off with a Channel 4 film exploring the friendship of two men brought together through chemotherapy.
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C4 film probes US racists
Leopard Films is making a film for Channel 4 following an American attorney's quest to bring down a white supremacist group by getting most of its members served with the death penalty.
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Discovery H&L orders for i2i
Indie i2i Television has been greenlit to make five series for Discovery Home & Leisure.
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Bravo to show real-life Fight Clubs
Scream Films has landed a deal to make Fight Night: White Collar Boxing for Bravo. The 15 x 30-minute series follows a number of rookie and professional white collar boxers, including Britain's first openly gay fighter known as the Pink Pounder, as they train and ...
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History Channel looks at life after demob
The History Channel has commissioned Oxford-based indie Red Admiral to produce Demob Happy. The hour-long documentary will tell the story of how Britain returned to peacetime following the surrender of Germany and later Japan in 1945. Produced by Red Admiral's Gail Downey, the programme ...
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C4 looks at what people do to get on TV
Channel 4 commissioning editor of factual entertainment Andrew MacKenzie has ordered a two-hour documentary I'll Do Anything to Get on TV from At It Productions, the company behind C4 youth strand T4. The programme will trace how members of the public have made it onto ...
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Fifa and BBC team up for World Cup doc
The BBC and BBC Worldwide are to team up with Fifa for a documentary series charting the history of the World Cup to coincide with the next finals in Germany in 2006.
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C4 News to air from Africa
Channel 4 News will broadcast live from Africa for a week next July to mark the 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland.
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BBC worldwide keeps hold of boat race
BBC Worldwide has signed a new six-year deal to continue representing the rights to the annual Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race. The new arrangement was brokered by Korer Media and includes international broadcast and other audiovisual media rights. In 2004, BBC Worldwide licensed the boat race to 98 counties.
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Sky One takes seventh series of Pokemon
Sky One has picked up the seventh season of Japanese animation Pokemon from US distributor 4Kids Entertainment. The 52-episode series, Pokemon: Advanced Challenge , introduces new characters in Teams Magma and Aqua to the perennial cast. Sky One currently airs ...
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Fans bring Fraggle Rock back to Danish TV
Hit Entertainment has relicensed children's series Fraggle Rock to Danish TV channel Danmarks Radio after 20,000 viewers petitioned the station. The first 26 episodes of the Jim Henson show have been picked up by Danmarks Radio after a campaign was launched by Danish radio station ...
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BBC investigates richest Russians
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has commissioned a raft of documentaries and contemporary factual series from indies, including a hard-hitting look at the rise of the Russian oligarchs.
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Wall to Wall builds on A Life in? series
Wall to Wall is to follow up its Emmy award-winning arts programme George Orwell - A Life in Pictures with a special on James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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BBC focuses on missing persons
Leopard Films is to make a real-life version of US drama Without a Trace for the BBC, which will focus on the biggest missing persons unit in the country.
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Furneaux wins C4 commission
Former Channel 4 executive Charles Furneaux has won his first commission since being poached by Talkback earlier this year.
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Love gets Sky One order
Former Maverick TV managing director Richard Mckerrow is close to bagging his first commission for his newly formed indie, Love Productions.
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Paul Merton looks at the Comedy store
Comedian Paul Merton is to make his directorial debut in a BBC1 documentary charting 25 years of the Comedy Store. The 60-minute 25 Years of the Comedy Store - A Personal Historyby Paul Merton is written, presented and directed by the ...