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Flagship BBC 2 show to cover economics.
Award-winning documentary maker Adam Curtis has been commissioned to produce a major investigation into the world economy in the 1990s for a flagship new BBC 2 series, writes Leigh Holmwood
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C4 to move away from US.
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam pledged this week to shift the channel's focus away
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A long-lost episode of Doctor Who, which has never been broadcast, is to be re-shot by the BBC and premiered online, writes Luke Satchell
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TX - Left out in the cold.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGOBroadcaster: ITV 1Producer: Granada Television/Evision/WGBH BostonStart: 21.00, 24 NovemberLength: 3 x 90-minutesCommissioning editor: Nick ElliottDuring
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Documentary - Documentary evidence.
Over the past few weeks a delegation of Canadian documentary makers from the Hot Docs Festival visited the UK to meet up with UK producers and commissioners for the first time. JUDY HOLM kept a diary
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Brown eyed boy given C4 comedy lab slot.
Indie Brown Eyed Boy, set up by former Chrysalis executive producer Gary Reich in June, has
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Granada puts life into flagging careers.
Granada has developed yet another talent show format, this time one aimed at reviving the careers
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Isis Media looks at showbiz on the edge.
Indie Isis Media is to produce a four-part series looking at local characters who exist on
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Big Brother's Adele fronts YTV youth show.
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV (YTV) to produce a 4 x
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Puppets Ripley and Scuff get 40 episodes.
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered a second series of Children's Company's
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BBC to launch multimedia fightbox game.
The BBC is launching a new multimedia entertainment format fusing gaming and technology to allow viewers
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VC cash to boost Mersey's coffers.
Brookside producer Mersey Television has secured a multimillion pound investment from venture capital company LDC in
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Channel 5 in hot pursuit of reality hit.
A member of the public will be given the chance to become a Formula 1 racing
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BBC 'books' Sunday slot for drama until 2004.
The BBC has thrown down the gauntlet to ITV over the scheduling of major dramas by
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Joe Public to live like royals in ITV show
Television viewers are to be offered the chance of living like royalty in a new gameshow being developed by Granada for ITV 1, writes Steve Aston
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Paice takes on Trouble
Flextech has announced a new programming team structure which will see Bravo controller Matthew Paice take additional control of sister offering Trouble, writes Paul Revoir
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Toon channel backs UK talent
Cartoon Network has backed up its commitment to increase its level of original UK production with two animated projects, including a piece from the director of the award-winning Gorillaz music videos, writes Paul Revoir
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Little Britain to get TV airing
BBC Radio 4 sketch show Little Britainis set to be the latest radio comedy show to transfer to television, after securing an 8 x 30-minute slot on both BBC 2 and BBC 3, writes Leigh Holmwood
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MTV and Tiger Aspect plan kids series
Indie Tiger Aspect has teamed up with MTV to produce a 13-part, live-action series for CITV, writes Penny Hughes
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Nigella indie to look at the Great British bottom
Channel 4 has commissioned Nigella Lawson's indie, Pabulum Productions, to produce a 60-minute special on the history of the backside, writes Georgina Lipscomb