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NewsDermot O’Leary returns to The X Factor
Dermot O’Leary will be back at the helm of The X Factor when the long-running format returns to ITV in the autumn.
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NewsRDF scoops Nat Geo People's first commission
RDF Television has scored a ten-part commission for fledgling international network Nat Geo People.
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NewsVice buys stake in Pulse
Vice Media has acquired a majority stake in Pineapple Dance Studios producer Pulse Films, Broadcast has learned.
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NewsLucky Man to return after first series finds fortune
Stan Lee’s Lucky Man is to return to Sky 1 for a second series after the comic book thriller became the biggest drama in the channel’s 34-year history.
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NewsTLC orders UK version of Say Yes To The Dress
US indie Half Yard Productions is to remake its hit series Say Yes To The Dress for TLC in the UK just months after producing a similar show for Channel 4.
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NewsRylan Clark to host C5 chat show
Channel 5 has ordered a weekly chat show hosted by Celebrity Big Brother winner Rylan Clark.
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NewsCatastrophe helps C4 triumph at RTS Awards
Catastrophe helped Channel 4 clinch the highest number of gongs at the RTS Programme Awards on Tuesday evening.
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NewsC4 duo reunite to launch indie
Gogglebox commissioner David Glover and Dragonfly TV managing director Mark Raphael are joining forces to establish a production company.
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NewsSky buys a spoonful of Sugar Films
Sky has taken a minority stake in Pat Younge’s production company Sugar Films, continuing its UK indie investment strategy.
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to BBC’s Jon Beazley
Some of entertainment’s biggest names have paid tribute to Jon Beazley, the former BBC in-house entertainment boss who died at the weekend.
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NewsLove to look beyond BBC and C4
Love Productions creative director Richard McKerrow has admitted that The Great British Bake Off indie is too reliant on the BBC and Channel 4.
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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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NewsPioneer lands Red Bull adventure doc
Red Bull has commissioned an Amazonian adventure documentary from Pioneer Productions.
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NewsBBC names Top Gear 'editorial lead'
Clare Pizey has been named as the ‘editorial lead’ in charge of Top Gear following mounting speculation about the show’s leadership in the fall-out from the controversial cenotaph stunt.
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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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NewsDavid Ellender leaves Slingshot Global Media
David Ellender has left Slingshot Global Media, the international drama firm that he established in 2014, according to reports.
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NewsBBC4 visits James May's workshop
James May is to front a three-part Plum Pictures series for BBC4 in which the former Top Gear presenter will rebuild everyday objects to see what makes them tick.
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NewsHardcash boss: C4 investigative slate threatened by sale
Channel 4’s news and current affairs coverage would be compromised by privatisation, according to the boss of investigative indie Hardcash Productions.
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NewsLucky Giant scores BBC2 period comedy
Health charity the Wellcome Trust is co-producing a BBC2 comedy about Victorian medicine, written by Rev co-creator James Wood.