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TWI keeps contract to distribute MUTV
TWI has been re-appointed to the contract to distribute Manchester United Television (MUTV) across the world for the next three years. In the last contract TWI secured deals in the Middle East, Far East, Europe and Africa and there are established deals in New York and Scandinavia.
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Format Focus: Nosy Neighbours
br>Not another property programme but a new spin on the wind-up show, this time with neighbours from hell.
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Poliakoff scripts trilogy for BBC1
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s.
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BBC1 rebuilds houses after acts of God
BBC1 has commissioned a new twist on the home makeover show, with a series following families' attempts to rebuild homes destroyed by floods, fires and even runaway coaches.
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Firecracker takes on world's strongest boy
Firecracker Films has tied down a trio of commissions, including The World's Strongest Boy for Five..
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ITV to grant Harry Hill an audience
ITV is poised to commission a new An Audience with ? starring big-collared funny-man Harry Hill. The show from Granada's entertainment division is likely to go out in the autumn to kick-start the new series of Harry Hill's TV Burp ...
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Prospect watches diet for discovery
Indie Prospect Pictures has been commissioned by Discovery Health to make a dieting show for January next year. The 15 x 30-minute The A-List Dietwith the Food Doctor , ordered by commissioning editor Louissa Grange, will see nutritionist to the stars Ian Marber give 15 ...
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Mandrill wins discovery health orders
York-based indie Mandrill Television has landed a raft of commissions for Discovery Health, including Body Builders - a series set for autumn which trains novices to take part in their first bodybuilding competition. For next year, Sex Change will follow ...
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BBC3 puts parenting in the spotlight
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a second series of parenting show Who Rules the Roost as part of a season on the subject. The 10 x 60-minute Ricochet-made series, which is due to air later in the year, asks working parents to stay at ...
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ITN analyses Iraqi handover for C4 news
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN to make a quick-turnaround two-hour news special devoted to the 30 June handover of sovereignty in Iraq. Iraq: Counting the Cost , presented by Jon Snow, will be broadcast between 19.00 and 21.00 on 28 June. C4 claims the show ...
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NewsC4 experiment tests steroids on athletes
Athletes are to be injected with anabolic steroids for a Channel 4 programme that will attempt to measure the impact of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Popstars back in fresh guise
Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.
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BBC joins Russia for Space Race
The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.
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NewsPoliakoff scripts three films for BBC
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the sweeping history of the 1980s and 90s.
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.
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Bomber Ace takes flight for C4
channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make a follow-up to Spitfire Ace with a series in which relatives of second world war veterans are put through their paces manning a Lancaster bomber, writes Glen Mutel.
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O'Leary indie unleashes Parent Trap on BBC3
Dermot O'leary's indie Murfia is making a show for BBC3 in which young people are followed around by their parents at work, in the pub and on dates, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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My hero back in autumn for fifth run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a fifth series of comedy My Hero from indie Big Bear Films. Production on the 10 x 30-minute run, which will again star Ardal O'Hanlon as a secret superhero, has just begun, with broadcast due in the autumn. It is directed by John Stroud, ...
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Topical TV makes over lives for UKTV
UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned a 15 x 30-minute life makeover series for UK Style called Who Do You Think You Are? from Topical TV. The series, which air every weekday from 14 July, will be hosted by presenter Paul Roseby, Big Brother psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott ...
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CBBC recommissions little red tractor
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has ordered a third series of pre-school animation Little Red Tractor. The 26 x 10-minute run, a co-production between Entertainment Rights and The Little Entertainment Company, follows the adventures of a tractor and its owner, Stan. It is due to air on CBeebies and BBC2 at ...