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NewsReturn to Tuscany takes primetime slot
BBC2 has commissioned indie Seven Stones Media to make a primetime version of its daytime cookery hit, Return to Tuscany. BBC2 has asked for a 10 x 30-minute version of the show to air in a weekly 7pm slot this autumn. The series follows the ...
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Somethin' Else looks into Sexual Healing
Radio indie Somethin' Else is to produce a one-hour documentary on the story behind Marvin Gaye's hit song Sexual Healingfor BBC Radio 2. The documentary, which has been commissioned by R2 controller Lesley Douglas, will focus on Gaye's rocky relationship with co-writer David Ritz, who ...
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6 Music listeners to present Sunday show
BBC 6 Music is to play host to wannabe DJs by inviting listeners to fill a two-hour slot with their favourite music. Listener's 6 Mixwill go out every Sunday night from 8pm.
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Little Voice writer to pen Afternoon Play
Jim Cartwright, the scriptwriter behind Little Voice, is to pen a drama for BBC Birmingham's Afternoon Playseries. Cartwright is writing and directing Johnny Shakespeare(working title), a modern-day tale about a semi-literate man who begins a ...
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Commissioner's Q & A - Aaqil Ahmed
Channel 4's commissioning editor, religion is on the lookout for attention-grabbing documentaries and ideas that are ahead of their time - and has the budget to reward the right idea.
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Cuts at BBC News
BBC News is to lose 100 staff over the next year as part of director general Mark Thompson's three-year programme of cutbacks, according to the NUJ. Staff in the department were warned by Thompson last March that he wanted to axe 420 posts by March 2008. News staff are now ...
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Show comes to aid of debt-ridden couples
Channel 4 will put financially troubled couples on a post-nuptial contract as part of a primetime show called Your Money or Your Wife.
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C4 to reinvent shelved pilot for primetime
Channel 4 is in discussions to relaunch one of its shelved breakfast pilots as a primetime entertainment show.
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O'Connell struggles
Sky One is struggling to turn Virgin Radio breakfast show host Christian O'Connell into a TV star, with his new Sunday night show averaging just 75,000 (0.54%). The show is well below the channel's slot average this year of 264,000 (1.7%). Its first episode on 16 July brought in an ...
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BBC LA Grease order
The BBC's Los Angeles production office has won a commission from US terrestrial network NBC for a reality show to find the stars of an upcoming Broadway version of Grease. You're the One that We Wantwill be made by BBC ...
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RDF buys kids indie
RDF Media Group acquired Kent-based children's producer The Foundation TV Productions for£4m on Thursday (3 August). It paid£3m in cash for the maker of The Basil Brush Showand Eureka TV, with the other£1m made up of RDF shares. The payment ...
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Movie Rush on TV
Film4 has made a programme previously only available online into its first regular series. Film review show Movie Rushis made by multiplatform producer Zone and has previously been exclusively offered through Channel 4's website. From this month it will also air on Film4 and is ...
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Chiles to host BBC2 quiz
Adrian Chiles is to host a new quiz show for BBC2 being made by Who Wants to be a Millionaireproducer Celador Productions.
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Poker Channel rebrands as All in Sport
The Poker Channel will relaunch as a general sports offering this month in a bid to regain audiences lost since Sky's shake-up of the electronic programming guide ( EPG ) in February.
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Firefly rejects Tinopolis bid approach
Firefly Film and Television Productions has knocked back a takeover bid by Welsh super-indie Tinopolis.
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ITV plots more Rio wind-ups
ITV is in discussions with England footballer Rio Ferdinand about fronting four more TV wind-up shows.
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F&L: freelancers fight back
The BBC must have been hoping that its freelance workforce would simply roll over and accept the corporation's latest initiative to standardise pay rates for freelancers at its Factual & Learning department (F&L).
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Comment: Why subtitles can say it all
Stuart Cosgrove says subtitles have become a vital part of factual programming