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NewsVoltage cooks up food format for BBC2
Voltage TV has landed a 12-part primetime food competition celebrating home cooking to air on BBC2 next summer.
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NewsITV drama: Lygo demands more fun & lightness
ITV director of television Kevin Lygo has called on programme makers to come up with more “happy, life affirming” dramas like The Durrells, saying he was “tired of endless murders”.
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NewsVice News staffs up
Nightly show Vice News Tonight is to launch on Vice in the UK as the fledgling broadcaster staffs up its newsroom with eight hires.
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NewsBBC releases Question Of Sport tender
Regional producers could be best placed to scoop the £4m contract to produce A Question of Sport after the BBC released its first tender document since scrapping its in-house guarantee.
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NewsRaised By Wolves: Caitlin Moran launches crowdfunding campaign
Caitlin and Caroline Moran have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £320,000 to put a third series of their comedy Raised By Wolves into production.
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NewsNBC's Timeless heads to E4
Channel 4 has picked up the first-run UK rights to time travel drama Timeless which it will air on youth-skewing channel E4.
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NewsLightbox wins child refugee doc
Channel 4 is to follow four child refugees escaping war-torn Middle East to safety in Europe in a documentary from the producer of Man on Wire.
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NewsDoc/Fest appoints director of film
Luke W Moody, currently head of film at Britdoc, has been confirmed as the new director of film programming at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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NewsSee-Saw adapts Ian McGuire whaling thriller
BBC2 is developing an adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Man Booker-longlisted whaling novel The North Water with See-Saw Films.
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NewsArrow preps Pearl Harbour film
Arrow Media and Canadian indie Handel Productions will mark the 75th anniversary of the World War Two attack on Pearl Harbour by examining who was to blame for the disaster.
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NewsBanijay and Fremantle indie in format dispute
Banijay and Fremantle Media-owned indie Abot Hameiri have become embroiled in a format dispute over general entertainment show All Against 1.
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NewsWag opens distribution arm
Factual indie Wag TV has launched a financing and distribution arm – Wag Worldwide.
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NewsITV orders wedding doc series
Couples facing some of life’s toughest challenges will tie the knot in an ITV documentary series.
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NewsVictoria reigns in 150 countries
Mammoth Screen’s period drama Victoria now been sold to over 150 countries following a raft of deals at Mipcom.
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News5 Star returns to 100% Hotter
Viacom’s 5 Star has ordered a second series of 100% Hotter, the debut show from Simon Andreae’s Fremantle-backed Naked Entertainment.
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NewsBuccaneer to adapt Irvine Welsh's Crime
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is to return to TV for the first time in almost a decade with Buccaneer Media’s adaptation of his thriller Crime.
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NewsNeil Grant to leave Films of Record
Films of Record managing director Neil Grant is to leave the Bafta-winning indie to become creative director of Welsh production company Avanti Media.
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NewsWildscreen Panda Awards: winners revealed
A Netflix documentary about the global ivory trade scooped the top prize at last night’s Panda Awards, while presenter Chris Packham was given the Outstanding Achievement award.
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NewsC4 orders Somme anniversary doc
360 Production has been commissioned to tell the secret history of the Battle of the Somme in a one-off Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsRicky Gervais preps ABC gameshow
Ricky Gervais will executive produce and star in an ABC studio game show featuring adult contestants competing for cash prizes with the help of a child panel.