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BBC's wide eye sells to Eastern Europe
Abbey Home Media has licensed BBC pre-school show Wide Eye to eastern European children's network Minimax. The channel has acquired the cable, satellite and video rights for Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The 26 x 10-minute series, already sold to South Korea, Australia, ...
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Reality TV channel launched in Portugal
London-based Zone Vision is to launch its Reality TV channel in Portugal. The three-year deal with cable operator Cabovisao will see the 24-hour channel broadcast in English to 230,000 homes throughout the country. Worldwide, the channel is available to around 120 million subscribers and is broadcast in 18 different languages. ...
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Format focus: PA for a day
In PA For a Day, the presenter acts as personal assistant in order to explore office life from the inside
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Evolutions' reign of terror
Evolutions Television has worked with Scream Films on docu-drama Terror Alert - Could You Survive?. Ex-SAS hard man Chris Ryan looks at what civilians should do if disaster strikes. Reconstruction, archive footage and expert analysis were used to create a fast-paced documentary series. Graeme ...
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BBC1 puts£4m into Willows film
BBC1 is developing an ambitious£4m version of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story Wind in the Willows featuring state-of-the-art animatronics.
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Comedian gets CBBC show
Stand-up comedian Marcus Brigstocke is to front a children's comedy show for the BBC.
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BBC looks at night working
Welsh indie Aspect Television has been commissioned by BBC controller of daytime, Alison Sharman, to make a show about people who work during the night.
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Postman pat set to deliver until 2010
The BBC has commissioned Entertainment Rights to deliver further new episodes of Postman Pat that will continue the series' run into 2010. The 26 x 15-minute order is on top of an initial commission of 26 x 15-minute episodes and 4 x 30-minute specials which ...
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EYE to make children's eel island drama
Norwich-based indie Eye Film and Television has been commissioned to make a children's drama for Five as part of a clutch of new commissions. The 13 x 12-minute The Secret of Eel Island , ordered by Five controller of children's Nick Wilson, focuses on the ...
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Punt and Dennis to write Radio 4 sitcom
Comedy duo Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis have been commissioned to write a new topical sitcom for BBC Radio 4. The Party Line, described as a cross between Drop the Dead Donkey and My ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Richard Woolfe
Bravo's director of programmes wants the channel to become the alternative home of sports in a bid to hold the attention of young men for more than three minutes
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Music therapy to fill gap left by Simpsons
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has begun the task of replacing The Simpsons , by ordering a 20-part series featuring Fame Academy judges Carrie and David Grant.
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Mirren in frame to play queen in Diana film
Prime Suspect star Helen Mirren is being lined up by Granada to play the Queen in an ambitious new cinema film charting the death of Princess Diana from the view of the royal family and Tony Blair. The film is due to go into ...
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News'Make a baby' TV show under fire
One thousand men will compete for the opportunity to father a child in a controversial new format that is already provoking outrage among religious and fertility groups.
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NewsUK broadcasters vie for Captain Scarlet revamp
ITV, the BBC and Sky One are set to bid for the new£20m revamp of Captain Scarlet - the most expensive children's TV programme ever made.
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Walters to star in Philip Lawrence school drama
ITV is lining up Julie Walters to star in a drama about the woman credited with turning around the north London school where head-teacher Philip Lawrence was killed in 1995.
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RDF looks at family feuds
RDF Media has begun work on a potential successor to its Channel 4 hit Wife Swap with a new show that aims to help families resolve long-running rifts.
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BBC2 signs up Whitehouse for comedy series
Paul Whitehouse has bagged a new TV series with a BBC2 comedy in which he plays a series of characters in need of psychiatric help.
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Cowell set to make music biz Apprentice
Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued Pop Idol judge, is set to front a music business version of NBC's hit reality show The Apprentice.
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TWI to make US I'd Do Anything
Indie TWI has been commissioned to produce a US version of BBC1 Saturday night entertainment show I'd Do Anything for sports network ESPN.