Entertainment – Page 84
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NewsWall to Wall preps UK version of smash US talent show
Wall to Wall has begun pitching a UK version of NBC’s kids talent format Little Big Shots after it became the biggest non-scripted show in the US in over four years.
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NewsFormer BBC entertainment boss Jon Beazley dies
Former BBC in-house entertainment boss and Strictly Come Dancing showrunner Jon Beazley has died after a short illness.
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NewsBBC parks The Getaway Car
BBC1 has parked primetime entertainment format The Getaway Car to make way for physical gameshow Can’t Touch This, which will air in its Saturday slot.
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NewsC4 'minded to bring back' The Jump
Channel 4 is poised to take a leap of faith and commission a fourth series of controversial winter sports show The Jump.
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NewsW to broadcast live Dynamo
Magician Dynamo’s stage show, Seeing Is Believing, is to be broadcast live on UKTV’s recently rebranded pay-TV channel W.
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NewsInsert Name Here lands second run
Sue Perkins-fronted panel show Insert Name Here is to return for a second series on BBC2 later this year.
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NewsLoose Women scraps summer break
ITV’s Loose Women will not take its traditional summer break this year after its ratings grew by 5% year-on-year.
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NewsSky Arts re-tunes Guitar Star
David Bowie producer Tony Visconti is to appear as a mentor in Guitar Star after Sky Arts ordered a second series of the Somethin’ Else show.
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NewsWall to Wall names new head of entertainment
Wall to Wall Television has appointed The Getaway Car executive producer Andy Rowe to replace Moira Ross as head of entertainment.
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NewsPrankster Simon Brodkin to front All 4 show
The prankster who showered former Fifa president Sepp Blatter with dollar bills has been signed up by Channel 4 to star in an online series.
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NewsTLC joins naked dating trend
UK pay-TV channel TLC is to remake Italian dating format Undressed.
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NewsUKTV orders first W shows
UKTV has ordered its first shows since rebranding W including a factual entertainment format fronted by Amanda Holden.
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NewsSony to shut Victory Television
Sony Pictures Television is shutting Victory Television after Victoria Ashbourne decided to step down.
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NewsDeal or No Deal's future hangs in the balance
Channel 4 gameshow Deal or No Deal is likely to come to an end with multiple sources indicating the latest series of the long-running format is set to be its last.
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NewsBBC refreshes daytime line-up
Dan McGolpin has argued that there is still much work to be done to revamp BBC daytime, despite unveiling more than 70 hours of fresh commissions and a record order of Pointless this week.
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NewsHolloway: X Factor part of the ‘fabric of the nation’
Richard Holloway has argued that The X Factor is as much a part of the “fabric of the nation” as Coronation Street and expects the ITV format to continue for “many years to come”.
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NewsITVS Australia secures first Talpa format
ITV Studios Australia is to make its first Talpa format, after the Dutch business was acquired by ITV.
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NewsPointless to pass 1000-episode mark
The total number of Pointless and Pointless Celebrities will pass the 1000-episode mark after Remarkable Television scored its biggest-ever commission of the daytime format.
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NewsGogglebox lands safe-cracking BBC quiz
A safe-cracking quiz format from Release The Hounds-indie Gogglebox Entertainment is among a raft of daytime commissions which have been unveiled by BBC1.
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NewsLiz Murdoch to invest in second TV producer
Former Shine Group chief executive Elisabeth Murdoch is in advanced negotiations to make a major investment in a second television production company, Broadcast can reveal.