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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. ...
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£60m Teachers TV gets government green light
Teachers TV, the planned£60m TV service for teaching professionals, has been signed off by the government and will launch in the first quarter of next year.
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Celador wins comedy order
Celador Productions has been given a rare comedy commission, with a new half-hour show for Channel 4.
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ITV1 takes 13 out of top 20 slots
ITV1 shows accounted for 13 of the 20 most popular programmes broadcast in the first half of the year, according to Barb data released this week.
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Commissioner's Q&A : Gary Shoefield
GSB director of programming has a maximum of£10,000 an hour to spend so has little chance of realising his dream of poaching The Sopranos, but he can afford another Sold in 60 Seconds
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Saga radio launch
Saga Radio has revealed it will launch its FM radio station for Glasgow on 7 September. The over-50s specialist won a competitive bid to launch Saga 105.2 last November, beating 12 competitors for the licence worth up to£20m in annual advertising revenue and commercial opportunities. Saga will have a potential ...
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Horne back to Metro
Tony Horne, breakfast DJ on Capital-owned 105.4 Century FM in the north-west, has been poached by Broadcast publisher Emap to rejoin Metro Radio in the north-east. Horne defected to Capital four years ago after months of conflict with management. But the DJ has been persuaded ...
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London TV goes on air
London TV, the new London listings channel produced by Enteraction TV for Visit London, is launching next week with a programming budget of£2m for the first year. All the programmes will be produced in-house by Enteraction TV. Programming strands include what's on broadcasts every hour and ...
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Kerrang! rolls out
Emap, publisher of Broadcast , is to roll out rock station Kerrang! across seven digital radio multiplexes, growing its coverage to two-thirds of the UK. The station, which was only available to digital listeners in London and Aberdeen, will cover Yorkshire, the north-east, north-west, West ...
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Miami opening for September
September Films has opened an office in Miami on the back of two factual series commissions from US broadcasters Bravo and Women's Entertainment (WE).
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Spain cooks up own Takeaway
Spain is to be the first country to show its own version of hit ITV show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
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Company's trio of Gold Nymphs
Company Pictures, the indie behind Shameless, walked away with a hat trick of Gold Nymph awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
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Zeal music rolls Cd:Uk to swiss market
Blaze Television's ITV1 chart show CD:UK is to be remade for the Swiss market. The deal, handled by Zeal Music, will see the music show air on SF2, owned by public terrestrial network SFDRS, from September. Zeal will make the Swiss version, which will be retitled CD:Live. The format has ...
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Italian prospect of straight dates
Indie Prospect Pictures has sold the format of reality show ...
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Rights for lion shows go to screentime
Screentime Partners has picked up the rights to a brace of entertainment formats from Lion Television. The indie, r...