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Commissions - Heggessey brings back drama favourites.
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has recommissioned three of the channel's dramas. Filming on a new 8
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Commissions - C4 pays tribute to influence of Friends.
Channel 4 is to mark the final episodes of Friends by airing a 90-minute documentary about
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Commissions - Mentorn takes a look at foreign affairs.
Indie Mentorn has been commissioned by Five controller of history Alex Sutherland to make a 60-minute
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Commissions - BBC signs Campbell for primetime show.
The BBC has signed TV and radio presenter Nicky Campbell to host its new primetime Saturday
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Animated Poirot to air in Japan.
The classic crime novels of Agatha Christie have been animated for the first time following a
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Arab broadcaster options BBC series.
Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based newscaster set up last year to rival al-Jazeera, has renewed its distribution ties with the BBC, optioning a further 125 hours of content, writes Colin Robertson.
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Format Focus: The making of the ? Show.
An improvised Finnish comedy, which has echoes of The Larry Sanders Show, The Office and Monty Python, sounds as if it would be irresistible to a UK audience, writes Michael Rosser.
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It's all in the worst possible taste.
Sky One head of factual Matthew Paice has commissioned three independents to make 4 x 60-minute
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Formats & Deals - Little Britain and Dead Ringers sell to Oz.
BBC comedy Little Britain and satirical sketch show Dead Ringers have been picked up by Australian
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Formats & Deals - C4 child sex doc sells to Europe and USA.
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales for Cutting Edge documentary The Child Sex
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Formats & Deals - NHK buys Little Robots kids animation.
BBC Worldwide has sold pre-school animation series Little Robots to public Japanese broadcaster NHK. The series,
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Formats & Deals - ER to handle Japanese Toon across Europe.
Entertainment Rights, the owner of Basil Brush and Postman Pat, is to distribute Japanese animation series
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Formats & Deals - Electric Sky buys break-dancing rights.
Electric Sky has picked up the distribution rights to break-dancing documentary B-Boy Championships, in a bid
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Formats & Deals - Five's Frow signs up BBC property experts.
Ben Frow has made his first major signing as controller of features and entertainment at Five,
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Analysis - Profile - Can MacDonald make C4's day?
Is Adam MacDonald's mix of scheduling experience at the BBC and programme-making experience gained at Lion TV the dream ticket for revitalising C4's daytime?
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On the Box - In sickness and in hell.
Pert nurses and hellish holidays left Elaine Bedell feeling a bit queasy - luckily Kirstie Allsopp's wise words and Caroline Quentin's crises settled her stomach.
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Analysis - An impossible jigsaw.
When it was first suggested, the idea of a merger between Channel 4 and Five seemed absurd. But, as speculation intensifies, Steve Clarke asks what the advantages are of such a marriage of convenience.
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Opinion - In my view - Looking for new Friends.
As the BBC and ITV give US shows a wide berth, it's up to the niche channels to track down those worth picking up, writes Dawn Airey.
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Comment - Turning up the heat.
The furore surrounding the Hutton report threatens to dominate the Charter review process and gives credibility to David Elstein's dangerous break-up agenda, writes David Docherty.
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Opinion - The BBC: can we fix it?
The Panorama debate asked many questions about the future of the BBC but a vital one remains: who should run it?