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Sky One spins off Road Wars
Sky One has commissioned a crime spin-off series of its successful police traffic footage show Road Wars.
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CBBC orders dog adventure
The company behind cult children's drama Press Gang has been commissioned to make a kids comedy drama for the BBC.
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Tiger Aspect makes CBBC animation
Tiger Aspect is to produce a new 26-part animated series for the BBC. Charlie and Lola is based on Lauren Child's children's books of the same name. Aimed at four to six-year-olds, the series, which is voiced by children, focuses on the adventures of seven-year-old ...
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Brian Waddell revs up top TV cars
Brian Waddell Productions is making a two-hour special for Sky One exploring the best cars that have featured on TV shows over the past 40 years, such as Knight Rider's Kitt. TV's Greatest Cars will count down the top 40 ...
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Five targets women with initial show
Initial is to film a star-studded charity concert for Five as part of a night targeting the channel's female audience. The event, titled the Asda Tickled Pink Girls' Night In: Live , will be staged at the Albert Hall next month. Produced by Clear ...
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BBC recommissions Prism's The Stables
Prism Entertainment has been commissioned by the BBC to produce a second series of children's docu-soap The Stables. CBBC controller Dorothy Prior and head of factual programmes Roy Milani have ordered a 10 x 27-minute follow-up to the first series to be shown on ...
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NewsFive movies rival pay-TV
Five is to premiere Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 3 before any of its pay-TV rivals after securing a major new movie deal with Sony Pictures Television International.
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NewsRDF to make C4 rival to BBC2's The Apprentice
Channel 4 is enlisting three charismatic millionaires for a formatted documentary to rival BBC2's The Apprentice.
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BBC2 seeks advice from Widdecombe
Tory MP and well-known battleaxe Ann Widdecombe is to become TV's latest agony aunt with a new BBC2 series in which she dishes out no-nonsense advice.
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Granada wins ABC pilot
Granada USA has secured a broadcast pilot commission from US broadcaster ABC for a show in which two strangers swap wallets and use their contents to live new lives for a week.
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NewsKnightrider & Only Fools in battle of TV cars
Kitt from Knightrider , Inspector Morse's elegant Jaguar and the Robin Reliant driven by the Trotters in Only Fools and Horses will battle it out for the accolade of greatest TV car in a new series for Sky One.
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Paradise Hotel heads to Israel
Mentorn reality series Paradise Hotel is being adapted for Israel following a deal secured by Tele-vision Corporation International.
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MTV calls on Murphy for ?dance idol' show
Big Brother and Fame Academy series producer Sean Murphy has been drafted in by MTV to work on a new 'dance idol' series.
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Format focus: Amish in the city
A reality show about people who normally shun modern life may have its critics, but it's also a ratings winner.
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Granada Sells wildlife shows to AB Sat
Granada International has sold more than 40 hours of wildlife shows to new German satellite channel AB Sat. When the channel launches this autumn, it will carry wildlife programmes such as Savage Planet (above), Savage Seas and ...
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Toonami to air animated star wars
The new animated Star Wars series is to be screened on Turner-owned cartoon channel Toonami next year in a bid to generate interest in the forthcoming Star Wars movie. The animated series, which is also a co-production between Cartoon Network ...
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Challenge picks up Property Rescue
Challenge, the Flextech-owned entertainment channel, has picked up the rights to a new series of Property Rescue and commissioned UK-specific links for the first time. The show, made in New Zealand by Touchdown TV, follows a team of experts as they transform a property that ...
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Minotaur seals BBC deal for Irish drama
Minotaur International has secured deals with the BBC for a new thriller from Ireland's RTE and licensed two Lynda la Plante dramas to ZDF in Germany. BBC3 will screen four-part drama Proof this month, which is produced by Subotica Entertainment and features three central characters ...
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Distraction sells Ciao Darwin format
Distraction Formats has sold primetime entertainment format Ciao Darwin to broadcasters in Poland, Hungary and Lebanon. SBS' Hungarian channel TV2 will launch the series in September, while TVN in Poland will begin production later this summer. Lebanon-based pan-Arabic network Future TV has yet to release broadcast plans. The format involves ...
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Sky One serves up pop factual
Sky one has lined up a raft of new popular factual shows including a history spin-off of Brainiac: Science Abuse and a travelogue featuring Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor.