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BBC2 follows house-building couple
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has commissioned an 8 x 30-minute series that will follow a couple as they attempt to build their own home. The House that Dick Built will feature Dick Strawbridge and his wife as they construct a self-sufficient and environmentally friendly house. ...
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Folio wins order for domestic disasters
Indie Folio has been commissioned to make a BBC1 popular factual series about domestic disasters. The 10 x 30-minute working titled Help will follow specialists who clean up when things go wrong in the home. It is series produced by Becky Clarke at Folio Scotland's ...
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C4 asks if football is the new religion
SFX, the management agency that fixed David Beckham's move to Real Madrid, is making a one-hour documentary for Channel 4 about football's relationship with religion. Hallowed Be Thy Game will see former Dominican friar and football fan Mark Dowd consider whether the devotion to the ...
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Map Man gets a second series on BBC2
Indie Tern Television is to make a second series of BBC2 factual series Map Man. BBC2 commissioner Nicola Moody has ordered an 8 x 30-minute series, presented by cartography expert Nicolas Crane. Each episode explores 'ingenious and revolutionary' British maps. A delivery date has ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Chantal Rutherford Browne
UKTV Style channel executive Chantal Rutherford Browne cares more about 'life' than style ideas and is keen to find out what women want
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Exclusive horticultural coverage on BBC
The BBC has signed a four-year deal for exclusive rights to the Royal Horticultural Society's four major flower shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. The deal will also see a collaboration on three new BBC2 gardening series for next year. The working-titled Winning Tatton from ...
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NewsITV launches ?Strictly Ice-Skating' show
ITV is to take on the BBC with its own ice-skating show and has signed the king and queen of the ice rink, Torvill and Dean, to front it.
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Street-Porter to star in second reality show
She may have branded it 'brain-rotting' television, but Janet Street-Porter is to appear in yet another reality TV series - this time with Five.
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NewsHarry Potter heads BBC Xmas
BBC1 is to give Harry Potter and Shrek their terrestrial premieres over the Christmas period as it bids to once again win the festive ratings battle - although this year it will have to do it without any new episodes ...
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NewsLupus moves into CGI
Lupus Films, the production company behind Little Wolf's Book of Badness , is making its first foray into CGI animation with an adaptation of a book by children's writer Edith Nesbit.
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NewsFormer Beckham agent to make C4 doc
SFX, the management agency that fixed David Beckham's move to real Madrid, is making a documentary for Channel 4 about football's relationship with religion.
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NewsBBC4 adapts 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Author Patrick Hamilton's classic trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is to be adapted by the BBC to mark his centenary.
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BBC airs stem cell drama-doc
The BBC is to join the controversial debate on stem cell research by screening a drama-documentary in which viewers will be asked to decide the outcome, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Strictly Come Dancing to be remade for Russian TV
The BBC's hit entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing is to be made for Russian audiences as part of a series of deals in the country.
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Challenge signs first CGTV show
Challenge is making its first foray into factual entertainment as part of its multimillion-pound co-production deal with recently launched US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).
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Talent picked for Japan job
Indie Talent Television has secured a raft of new international commissions, including a second instalment of Test the Nation in Japan.
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Format Focus: The Empire
Five is on the lookout for new reality series, and a trip back in time to a medieval Polish castle could fit the bill.
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Target sells footballers' wives to M6
Target Entertainment has sold Shed Productions' sex and soccer drama Footballers' Wives to French broadcaster M6. The terrestrial channel has picked up the first two series of the drama, screened in the UK on ITV. In addition, Target has sold all four series of ...
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RDF grabs rights to strongest boy doc
RDF Rights has picked up rights to the documentary World's Strongest Boy , which was produced by indie Firecracker Films. The hour-long programme, which secured an 11.9% share for Five in September, follows an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who can already lift three times his own ...
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Screentime agrees crime format sales
Screentime Partners has made six new format sales of Lion TV's crime makeover reality show To Catch a Thief. Series commissions have been signed with New Zealand's TVNZ, Nederland 1/KRO in the Netherlands, Belgium's VTM and Russia's NTV. Further options have been signed with ...