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BBC1 orders second New Tricks series
Indie Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a second series of BBC1 crime drama New Tricks. The new run has been extended to 8 x 60-minute episodes following the success of the original 6 x 60-minutes series, which pulled in about 8 ...
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Sky Puts the reality slot on Limos
Sky One has commissioned a reality series following the lives of limousine drivers in the UK. Made by Landmark Films, the 6 x 6-minute Limo Fever will spotlight the owners of limousine companies and their clients. Series produced by Rod Parker and directed by Jon ...
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Shed sets up kids and factual arms
Footballers' Wives ' producer Shed Productions has set up a kids division after securing a commission for a seven-part thriller for CiTV.
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C4 extends celebrity Big Brother show
Celebrity Big Brother will be returning to Channel 4 for a third series early next year. After the success of Big Brother 5 this summer, its celebrity spin-off has been stretched from 10 days to two weeks and will feature eight celebrity housemates instead of ...
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Dalziel and Pascoe Gets another run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a further run of long-running detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. The series, which will air as four batches of 2 x 60-minute episodes from February, will again star Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the two detectives. It ...
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S4C Takes a second trip up the Aisle
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned a second run of wedding-themed format Y Briodas Fawr. It will again see six Welsh celebrities organise a real wedding and pitch in by baking the cake, taking the photos and playing the organ during the service. S4C commissioning ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Kim Peat
Five controller of daytime, arts and religion thinks Spitalfields in London is a great example of religion and art crossing over and has an idea in development that will help to make drawing sexy
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Green Inc nets RTE contract
Comedian Patrick Kielty's Belfast-based indie Green Inc has secured an order for 150 hours of programming from Irish state broadcaster RTE.
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Winkleman to host come dancing spin-off
Former Liquid News presenter Claudia Winkleman has been signed up to front the new daily stripped spin-off of Strictly Come Dancing. The 40 x 30-minute order of Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two ...
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NewsWife Swap duo to run B&B for C4
Channel 4 is giving Wife Swap star Lizzy Bardsley another shot at screen fame - this time as the landlady of a seaside bed and breakfast.
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BBC boosts animation with Aardman order
The BBC has commissioned Aardman to make a 40-part spin-off to Wallace and Gromit in a bid to meet its commitment to invest in UK animation.
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Five to screen major ops
Five is set to screen major medical operations such as open-heart surgery in a bid to build on the success of Cosmetic Surgery Live.
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Sky One orders Easycruise show
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.
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Hunniford returns with celeb homes series
Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.
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League of Gentlemen writer is signed for new BBC3 comedy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the writer of The League of Gentlemen.
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BBC signs Lancashire to play Cannings
Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a BBC1 docu-drama. Cherished will be based on the case of Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her children and spent two years in prison ...
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C4 orders refugee doc from insight
Indie Insight News Television has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a documentary about refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. A co-production with the Discovery Channel, Living with Refugees follows journalist Sorious Samura in eastern Chad as he travels with families forced to ...
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Gamer.tv to produce new bravo series
Bravo has commissioned a new series for video games players to replace long-running series Gamepad. Dominik Diamond will host 20 x 30-minute series When Games Attack , which will be made by indie Gamer.tv and shown this autumn. The ...
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Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV
Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.
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Format focus: the immortals
In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.