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Commissioners Q&A: Glenwyn Benson
The controller of BBC factual TV is proud to be part of the broadcasting team that helped to raise audience figures for factual shows, and is keen to deliver a follow-up to Supervolcano
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Talkback to deliver QI for BBC
Talkback has been commissioned by BBC2 to make a third series of comedy quiz show QI.Filming will start next month on the 12 x 30-minute show, for transmission in the autumn. Produced by creator John Lloyd, the series will be co-produced by Quite Interesting Productions.
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UKTV commissions Pub series
UKTV has commissioned three series from Eagle Media Productions based around an old country pub in Berkshire called The Pot Kiln. For UKTV Food, Eagle is making the 10 x 46-minute A Pub in the Country, which follows a couple as they take over running the ...
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C4 takes on Comedy unit's Music spoof
Scottish indie The Comedy Unit has secured a brace of new commissions including a new mockumentary for Channel 4 based on the music scene. Neil McCallum, commissioning editor for music, youth and T4, has ordered 6 x 20-minute series Soundproof.The spoof documentary series will explore why ...
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CiTV braces itself for phobias show
CiTV has commissioned indie Darrall Macqueen to make Feel the Fear, a new factual entertainment series exploring fears and phobias. The 13 x 15-minute show challenges CiTV presenters Holly Willoughby and Steve Wilson to face 13 phobias such as a fear of sharks and heights. Aimed ...
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Wife swap set to return to C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor of documentaries Meredith Chambers has ordered a further two 6 x 60-minute series of RDF Media's Wife Swap.The fifth series will air in the autumn, while the sixth will go out next year.
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Pact creative strategies conference: Opportunity knocks
Mergers, rights and the growing need for indies to take a more business-like approach were all on the agenda at Pact's Creative Strategies Conference. Michelle Webster reports
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Enter the Dragon's Den
Indies seeking investment should be clear about what they want the money for and how they're going to pay it back. That was the message from a panel of investment specialists at the Pact Creative Strategies Conference - dubbed the 'Dragon's Den'.
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FBC still in the market to buy more indies
The company that acquired Diverse is looking to buy another one or two indies this year, FBC founder Alan Friedman ...
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Deal for dickinson
The BBC has axed the primetime version of Bargain Huntand given host David Dickinson a new role in another antiques series. Bargain Huntwas given a peaktime slot in 2002 but has failed to meet audience expectations. The daytime edition will remain, hosted ...
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Robinson new remit
ITV News political editor Nick Robinson has been given an expanded role, working across regional news programmes in England and Wales, as well as the national offering. ITV said the move is designed to create a more integrated approach to political coverage.
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Winslet to judge
TCM has signed up Kate Winslet to judge its annual British short film contest, TCM Classic Shorts. Winslet joins fellow actors David Morrissey and Helen Mirren on the 16-strong judging panel for this year's event, which launches at next week's Cannes Film Festival. The winner, who receives£10,000 in prize money, ...
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Virgin rock on Sky
Virgin Radio Classic Rock has extended its footprint onto Sky Digital in a bid to attract more listeners. The SMG-owned station launched last year to digital radio listeners in London and on the internet. It reported 165,000 listeners in the last set of radio audience figures. Virgin Radio Classic Rock ...
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Discovery turns fiction into fact
The Discovery Channel's new channel director, Jill Offman, has made her first batch of commissions, including a new...
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BBC fills daytime commissioning role
The BBC has appointed Karen Brown, a former editor of ITV1's This Morning, to oversee daytime commissions from outside London.
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Sky to air football awards
Sky One has picked up the UK rights to a new awards ceremony that is being billed as football's answer to the Oscar...
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Welsh indies benefit from C4 support
Channel 4 and the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) are ploughing£225,000 into Cardiff indies Green Bay and Boomerang...
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Death toll inquiry
BBC head of global news Richard Sambrook is to head an inquiry into the rising death toll among journalists after n...
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Return of Dixon
Classic police drama Dixon of Dock Greenis to be revived for a new series on BBC Radio 4. Following a 30-year absence, a series of six plays, based on original scripts from the long-running television show, will air in mid-June.
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Abbott wins award
Shamelesswriter Paul Abbott has gained another award for his thriller State of Play. The programme was picked up by BBC America and won best television feature in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards in the US this week. It is the latest in a series of victories ...