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Challenge gambles around the world
Challenge has commissioned Class Films to make The Ultimate Gambler, a 15 x 30-minute series following an ex-croupier as he gambles his way around the world. Armed with£15,000 and travelling to 15 different countries Cole Parker will bet his money on everything from Filipino fighting spiders ...
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C4 doc spotlights teenagers' lives
Channel 4 Education has commissioned Raw TV to make a 90-minute documentary about teenagers in Britain. Sixteen for a Daywill follow eight teenagers with differing opinions and attitudes but one thing in common: they were all born on the same day in November 1989. The production ...
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Hit to make Thomas radio show for Fun
Hit Entertainment is to produce two new radio shows for digital children's station Fun Radio, in which it holds a 47.5% stake. From 3 October five to 10 minute Thomas & Friendsstories will go out on weekdays at 3.30pm. Hit has also produced a daily 10.30am ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Karen Brown
The BBC's daytime commissioning editor - out of London and entertainment is most excited by a project chronicling one woman's efforts to transform a deprived housing estate
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C4 is first with web only shows
Channel 4 has become the first UK broadcaster to commission standalone original programming exclusively for the internet.
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Channel X unveils Manchester staff line-up
Channel X, the comedy indie behind Shooting Stars, has unveiled the staff line-up for its new Manchester-based venture, Channel K, formed with talent agency Karushi.
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Clocking Off writer pens postal drama
Daniel Brocklehurst, one of the writers behind Clocking Off, has won his first series commission with a six-part BBC1 drama about postal workers.
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Zig Zag backs Hotel Channel
Zig Zag Productions has branched out into the channel market, backing a new broadband TV station aimed at tourists and business travellers in London.
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Saxton to Virgin
Former Saatchi & Saatchi marketing director Kathleen Saxton has joined Virgin Radio as strategy and planning director, reporting to chief executive Fru Hazlitt. Saxton will work on overall strategy for the group, conducting an analysis of the business and helping to identify future opportunities. Saxton spent five years as business ...
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UK hour for Iberia
Viewers in Spain and Portugal are to be offered a daily hour of UK comedy and drama, after a deal was struck between BBC Worldwide and the People + Arts channel. The channel's Iberian feed - a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery - will carry a specially branded ...
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Oneword to podcast
Oneword Radio, the joint-venture between UBC Media and Channel 4, has launched a podcast of its daily author interview show Between the Lines. The national digital speech and entertainment-based station will make the daily half-hour show, presented by Paul Blezard, available for free download through audioville.com ...
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BBC widens course
The BBC has broadened its out-of-London executive producers' training course to cover series producers and is running the course from Manchester for the first time. The course, which begins on 10 October, will train 11 series producers from both indies and BBC in-house departments over the course of a year, ...
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C4 drama wins prix
Channel 4's acclaimed Granada thriller Sex Traffic, produced by Derek Wax, won the TV movies and miniseries drama prize at the 57th Prix Italia. At the same time The Cost of Living, another C4 drama made by DV8 Films, triumphed in the ...
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Tern boosts factual
Scottish indie Tern Television has recruited Banned in the UKproducer Paul Gallagher as executive producer to expand its factual output. He has joined the indie's Glasgow office and will be responsible for documentary projects.
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Sky One orders doc on Kate moss fall
Sky One has commissioned Scream Films to make a fast turnaround documentary charting the fall from grace of supermodel Kate Moss. Kate Moss: Fashion Victim?is an hour-long special looking at the media outcry which followed printed pictures of Moss taking drugs and her subsequent dismissal by ...
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Quiz Nation debuts Celebrity Sudoku
Optimistic Entertainment is making a live daily series called Celebrity Sudokuto kick off its new look Quiz Nation channel. The two-hour show, being executive produced by radio presenter Richard Bacon and Flipsideassociate producer David Owen, uses nine celebrity faces instead of the ...
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BT Broadband staffs up for launch
BT is beefing up its headcount ahead of the launch of its new broadband television service, poaching staff from The Hallmark Channel and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). TCM programme director Bobbie Fox will take on the role of head of film and Hallmark Channel research manager Luba Kassova becomes head ...
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Two more departures at GCAP
Two more leading executives are to leave radio giant GCap Media, following chief executive David Mansfield's departure last week. Commercial director Linda Smith and operations director Paul Davies - both former Capital Radio directors - will leave shortly. The news came as GCap announced merger savings of£25m, up from the£7.5m ...
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Debonnaire takes reins at Springer indie
Avalon, the UK indie and PR firm behind Jerry Springer - the Opera, has named former chief operating officer of Talkback Thames Sally Debonnaire as managing director. Debonnaire, who left Talkback last week, will report to Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner, joint managing directors of the ...
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Uttering the E-word
Hit series such as Jamie's Kitchenand Supernannyshow that programming with an educational slant is central to ensuring Channel 4's future success, says Heather Rabbatts.