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BBC1 to chart a year in the Navy year to fill
The BBC has commissioned a major documentary series charting a year in the life of the Royal Navy as part of the commemorations surrounding the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.
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MTV on series buying spree
MTV has commissioned a slate of new series, including a British version of car makeover show Pimp My Ride.
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Double order for September
Indie September Films has landed two new commissions, including a primetime special for ITV1 about nightmare nannies.
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Bravo to screen two FHM ventures
Bravo has teamed up with men's magazine FHMfor two new projects. The 60-minute Giant/Emap co-production The World Poker Exchange London Open, to air later this year, will follow 10 FHM readers as they play for£1m. It will also be broadcast on Flextech-owned ...
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C4 revisits soho for 1970s season
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN Factual to make Paul Raymond: The King of Soho, a documentary on the life and times of the renowned porn baron. The 60-minute programme, commissioned by C4 head of history and religion Hamish Mykura, will be narrated by ...
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Brideshead special leads off ITV3 rerun
Indie Free@Last TV has been commissioned to make an documentary on the classic ITV drama Brideshead Revisitedfor ITV3. Ordered by Daniela Neumann, controller of commissioned programmes for ITV2/ITV3, the hour-long Revisiting Bridesheadwill accompany a repeat of the series in September. Barry Ryan ...
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Airborne to look at 21st-century bras
Kent-based Airborne TV has bagged its first multichannel commission for Discovery Health to make Bra Wars - Boom or Bust. The 60-minute documentary, due to air at the end of February, will feature model Rachel Hunter and look at the 21st-century bra industry. Garry Grant will ...
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Commissioner's Q & A
br>Extreme Sports Channel managing director Europe Phil Jones is looking for broader lifestyle coverage for existing viewers and thinks that Gumball 3000 opened the way to bringing in new audiences
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ITV is a buyer too
Rather than letting itself be a target, would ITV do better making acquisitions of its own.
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Tailor-made seeks injunction on VRT
Indie Tailor-Made Films is seeking an injunction to stop Belgium's VRT broadcasting an alleged copycat version of its BBC1 format Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough. Lawyers will try to block the public broadcaster from screening the show this Friday (21 ...
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Chewing Gum wins development cash
Development company Chewing Gum has won£5,000 development money for the best interactive programme idea in a competition sponsored by Eckoh Technologies at Broadcast's Commissioning Conference in November. Chewing Gum's idea, Connections, is a programme combining genealogy and the web. Chewing Gum was set up by former Talkback Thames development producer ...
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Sky pushes set-top loyalty card
Sky subscribers will be able to shop, bet and earn loyalty points through a new credit card designed for use on their digital set-top boxes. BSkyB, which has been developing the technology with IT management consultancy Consult Hyperion, has informed all broadcasters who use its platform that the interactive card ...
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Switchco launch set for April
SwitchCo, the independent body that will manage the switch from analogue to digital TV, is to launch officially in April. BBC head of distribution Andy Townend is expected be confirmed as chief executive after working full time on the launch of the organisation for almost a year. Channel 4 deputy ...
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Pop Idol-style dance show heads for US
Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment is to make a Pop Idol-style reality show for Fox in the US to find the country's best dancer. Under the working title Dance Nation, the live show will set competitors different challenges each week. Fuller, who created ...
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BBC in Hat Trick UK rights deal
BBC Worldwide has signed a three-year output deal with indie Hat Trick Productions, securing UK distribution rights for its BBC-commissioned programming.
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Tsunami triggers NGTI documentary sales
National Geographic Television International (NGTI) has made several sales of documentary Tsunami: Killer Wave, in the wake of the Asian disaster.
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More dates for Princess
Indie Princess Productions has scored high-volume renewals for a dating format in America and Italy.
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Granada/KQED join forces on Cousteau exploration series
Granada International has inked a deal to invest in and distribute a high-definition documentary series from Emmy-award winning marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau.
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Format Focus: Face Off
This general knowledge knock-out format has done well in France and could soon reach UK shores. The format
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Postman Pat makes more deliveries
Entertainment Rights (ER) has sold the new Postman Patseries to the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia. The deal, which will see the children's series air in the Nickelodeon channels' territories, takes the number of sales of Postman Patto 65 countries.