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Fat Friends returning for fourth series
ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a fourth series of Kay Mellor's acclaimed drama Fat Friends , starring Alison Steadman and Lisa Riley. The series, which has already gone into production for a slot early next year, will be made by Mellor's indie, ...
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Granada to make psycho-thrillers
ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department. The Stepfather, a two-parter written by Simon Booker, stars Philip Glenister as a father whose 15-year-old daughter has gone missing amid suggestions that he has murdered her. The film, which goes ...
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NewsFive and Paramount pair up for comedy
Five has teamed up with Paramount Comedy to launch a co-production initiative aimed at creating comedy hits like The Office.
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NewsBig Ron racism film kicks off his comeback
Ron Atkinson, the flamboyant ex football pundit who trashed his career after making an offensive remark towards a black player, is to work out if he really is a racist with a peaktime film for BBC1.
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Endemol handed Five reality brief
Five has enlisted Big Brother producer Endemol to help it take another shot at the reality genre.
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Face ops revisited
Five has become the latest broadcaster to turn its attention to face rebuilding, with a two-part series examining the trauma associated with the operation.
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Feted director returns with C4 cocaine doc
The director of The Last Peasants - Channel 4's hard-hitting documentary on the struggles of Romanian migrants - is making a three-part observational documentary on the South American drug trade.
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Skinner returns for eighth series
The Frank Skinner Show is set to return this autumn to ITV1 for an eighth series and for the first time the show will feature musical performances from top acts in the 12 x 50-minute run. The Avalon Television production will be executive produced ...
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NewsC4 books Countdown til 2009
Channel 4 has re-commissioned its long-running daytime quiz show Countdown for another five years.
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NewsDiet Trials lead BBC German push
BBC Worldwide is to co-produce a new series of slimming reality series Diet Trials for German audiences.
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NewsITV orders new thrillers
ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department.
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Fake lottery win story airs on ITV
ITV1 has commissioned Hewland International to make a one-off drama documentary about Howard Walmsley, the painter and decorator jailed in 2001 after posing as a£9m National Lottery winner to save his marriage.
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Living takes celebrity snaps
Living TV has commissioned new indie Thumbs Up to make a 20 x 30-minute reality show about photographers who snap celebrities for a living.
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C4 gives female orgasms the Bodyshock series treatment
Channel 4 is to chart the progress of three British women who travel to the US to test a new treatment for women who can't reach orgasm.
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Dee takes lead in Simon Nye film for ITV
Jack Dee is to star in an ITV film penned by Men Behaving Badlycreator Simon Nye, writes Michael Rosser.
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Whistledown profiles Thackray's life
Whistledown Productions has secured three commissions for BBC Radio 4. That Jake Thackray Thing, a 30-minute programme profiling the folk singer/songwriter (pictured) who died last year, is due to air towards the end of 2005. The producer is David Prest. ...
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ITV watches naturists at work
Naturists of all professions are to star in an ITV primetime show called Going to Work Naked. Indie Hanharan Media, which is making the show, claimed to have found people doing a diverse range of jobs who can work unclothed. Ordered by ITV controller ...
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Libra to produce two BBC schools shows
Manchester-based Libra Television has won the two secondary school commissions put out to indies by the BBC schools and colleges department this year. Libra will make 2 x 60-minute religious education programmes for the Curriculum Bitesseries. Ordered by BBC schools and colleges editor Karen Johnson ...
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C4 plans six more pieces for Animate
Channel 4 and the Arts Council have unveiled the latest commissions for its animation series Animate!. The season includes Who Am I and What I Want, a collaboration between Chris Shepherd and artist David Shrigley. Other pieces include As the Crow Flies by Carolina Melis and Susanne Flender; Rabbit by ...
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Challenge captures weird acts on film
Challenge has commissioned Indie Blue to make a 15 x 30-minute clip show series called Twisted TV. The show, which airs from 9 August, focuses on the weirdest moments caught on camera, such as water-skiing monkeys in Japan and a man with a six-and-a-half-foot moustache. ...