More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3216
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NewsCrime channel orders surveillance series
Crime & Investigation Network (CI), which launched on 10 July, and ITV London have commissioned Flame TV to make a 6 x 30-minute series looking at the ways the public is monitored.
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C4 gets on bike for 3 Minute doc slot
Channel 4 has commissioned four new short films for its 3 Minute Wonderslot in a competition run by the broadcaster together with ITN Source and the Brit Doc Festival.
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R4 books post-watershed Chatterley
Radio indie Catherine Bailey Productions has been commissioned to adapt DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfor BBC Radio 4.
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BBC2 discovers nature in major daytime series
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham is to present a major daytime series for BBC2 about the best locations to capture the beauty of British nature, with 10 shows being dedicated to each of the seasons.
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NewsRantzen to expose scams in BBC show
Consumer champions Esther Rantzen and Lynn Faulds Wood are to be brought together in a new consumer action series ordered by BBC features and factual entertainment commissioner Elaine Bedell.
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Sky One pushes science to breaking point with Crash Test
Sky One has ordered a Brainiac-style series that will test how far objects, machines and vehicles can be pushed before cracking, exploding or flying off the track.
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The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty argues that the BBC once ruled the analogue world, but now that golden age is over Mark Thompson's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era.
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Comment: The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty thinks that the BBC's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era
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Comment: Everything To Play For
The revival in the gameshow format offers big prizes for a top format, says Tim Hincks
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NewsFive picks up major Warner Bros drama
Five has secured the exclusive rights to big-budget Warner Brothers drama serial The Nine, one of the last high-profile, new season US shows that was still available from the LA Screenings.
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GI sells ITV miniseries to France
Granada International (GI) has sold a number of miniseries made by ITV Productions to broadcasters in France.
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Fremantle goes global with Got Talent
Fremantle Media is planning an international rollout of the Got Talent format, a co-production with Simon Cowell indie Syco, following a successful launch in the US.
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Nigerian film channel to launch on Sky
Zenithfilms, a London-based company distributing Nigerian programming to airlines which fly to Africa and America, is planning to launch a 24-hour channel on Sky in January.
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NewsSky bets£400m on broadband market
Sky's converged media initiative may have spooked the City but it's the right strategy.
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Duo launch Synchronicity
The duo behind the BBC's big-budget kids show Shoebox Zoo has set up a Glasgow-based drama indie.
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Taylor revisits Al-Qaeda for terror anniversary
Veteran reporter Peter Taylor is to make a new series of programmes on Al-Qaeda, timed for broadcast on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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BBC2 adds variety
BBC2 is reviving the variety show in a daytime series to be hosted by Brian Conley. Let Me Entertain You, being made by Lion Television, sees the studio audience vote on performers, with the winners from each show going through to a grand finale. The ...