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Granada International in wildlife deal
Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...
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Norway picks up fremantle formats
Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...
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I'd do anything to be remade for Romania
BBC1 Saturday night show I'd Do Anything is be remade for Romanian audiences. Distraction Formats has brokered the deal with Prima TV for the TWI-owned format that challenges people to face their worst fears to win a prize for a loved one. The format has ...
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Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc
Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...
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Fox's FX picks up action sports docs
Fox-owned FX's vice-president of broadcasting and marketing, Jason Thorp, has bought three action sports and adventure documentaries from indie Black Diamond. They are surfing documentaries Step in Liquid and The Endless Summer and Chlorine , ...
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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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NewsThreats fly in format war
Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.
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NewsPriest Idol show given C4's blessing
Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.
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Village people's gay test
Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.
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C4 agrees to carry Einstein docudrama
Darlow Smithson, the producer of Bafta-winning film Touching the Void , is developing a $2m (£1.1m) drama about Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific equation E=mc2 for Channel 4.
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NewsKeating makes first big orders
New BBC2 controller Roly Keating has greenlit two major factual projects from BBC Birmingham worth£7m, including one that will challenge people to pay off their mortgages early.
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Leopard to make second money spinners
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has commissioned Leopard Films to make a second series of consumer show Money Spinners. The 15 x 60-minute series deconstructs family finances and puts heavy spenders through a month of gruelling saving, earning and selling to raise an ...
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NewsBBC orders Angela Cannings drama
Actress Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a new BBC1 docu-drama.
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NewsLeague of Gentlemen writer pens BBC comedy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a new long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the award-winning writer of the League of Gentlemen.
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Brule to present BBC4 media show
Tyler Brûlé, the founder of iconic lifestyle magazine Wallpaper , is to front new BBC4 flagship media show The Desk and his indie will co-produce it.
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C4 doc explores origins of AIDS virus
Channel 4 is to explore the origins of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with a documentary which claims that the disease spread from monkeys to humans via polio vaccination.
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Simm stars in BBC adaptation of Blue/Orange
The BBC has signed up an all-star cast for a feature-length dramatisation of Joe Penhall's Olivier-award winning play Blue/Orange.
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BBC1 is still in it to win it with Dale
BBC1 has commissioned 12 Yard Productions to produce a further 12 x 45-minute series of lottery show In It to Win It. Dale Winton will return for the fourth series of the monetary quiz show, which has been recommissioned by BBC controller of entertainment ...
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Creative touch goes into the unknown
London-based indie Creative Touch Films is making a 26-part documentary series about modern-day explorers for the National Geographic channel. Into the Unknown , which will air on National Geographic channels internationally from January next year, is the third biggest adventure and exploration-based series that the ...
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UKTV commissions deck dating show
Red Door Television has been commissioned by UKTV Food to produce a dating series with former Blue Peter presenter Katy Hill. Deck Dates will air in a weekday primetime slot from the end of October and will be co-hosted by chef James Martin. Single contestants will be lined up for ...