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Creature Comforts heads to Japan
Granada International has sold Aardman Animations' award-winning animated series Creature Comforts to Japanese distributor Gaga Communications. The company has acquired all 26 x 10-minute episodes, plus a five-minute special and a 30-minute documentary, Creating Creature Comforts.
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London team make Queer Eye US episodes
Via London, the indie behind the UK version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy , is to produce two episodes for the hit US series. The latest season of the makeover series, shown on US cable channel Bravo, will include two 60-minute, London-based episodes ...
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Prospect wins orders for Gay Mates
Indie Prospect Pictures's dating show Straight Dates by Gay Mates has been commissioned for a second series in both Israel and Italy. Production on the shows - which features two gay men choosing dates for single girls - is due to begin in January. The ...
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RDFI set to distribute lost dragon doc
RDF International has picked up the distribution rights to a new wildlife documentary from indie Steel Spyda. Butann: The Lost Dragon is about the discovery of a giant tree-living lizard by scientist Daniel Bennet, which was previously thought to be extinct. The one-hour documentary was ...
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Virgin mobile backs Superbike series
Virgin Mobile is backing a new advertiser-funded programme on Five about a group of aspiring Superbike racers vying to win the Virgin Mobile Samsung Yamaha British Superbike Team next season. Natural Born Racers , produced by Bullseye Television, will start at the end of November ...
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Ex-Blue Peter host goes to Hollywood
Former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent is to host the highest rated entertainment programme in the US - Access Hollywood. The£5m-a-year deal will see Vincent host the NBC show six nights a week and follows his presenting duties on the ...
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South Africa buys into The Farm
Reality format The Farm , which ended its run on Five last month, is to be made for audiences in South Africa. Endemol, the indie behind the UK version of the format, has secured the rights to make the show in the region. The format, ...
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Format Focus: Kept
Another take on the dating format merges romance and celebrity, with Jerry Hall searching for a toy boy.
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Set regions free with local TV
As the winds of change blow through the regions, this week's nations and regions conference asks who should be the true regional champion. Not ITV, says panellist Steve Hewlett, who offers a more radical solution
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Meridian backs producers
Meridian is backing a new regional producers group in the south-east that aims to lobby against cuts in ITV's regional non-news output and provide support for those made redundant.
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BBC2 to explore Asian experience
Pakistani immigrants are to talk about their experiences of coming to the UK as part of a raft of new commissions for the BBC Asian programme unit (APU).
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Animals to have winter games
Polar bears will compete with penguins in a bobsleigh competition in a winter follow-up to this summer's BBC1 CGI-show Animal Games.
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Jordan goes undercover on Five
Glamour model Jordan is to discover what her family and friends really think of her, as part of a celebrity makeover programme commissioned by Five.
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Rapido to make C4 doc on porn star Lolo
Rapido Television has scored its first commission since the company's relaunch earlier this year. Channel 4 editor of factual entertainment Andrew Mackenzie has ordered The Death of a Porn Queen , a one-hour documentary about French star Lolo Ferrari, whose record bust measured 54G ...
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Sky One to seek out Britain's Angriest
Sky One has commissioned indie Landmark Films to find the nation's most enraged residents. Angry Britain has been ordered by Sky One commissioning editor Paul Crompton and will follow some of the nation's most short-tempered people as they seek anger management. The 2 x ...
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Black diamond deals in poker tournament
Indie Black Diamond Films is making The European Nations Poker Challenge for Sky Sports. The 4 x 120-minute series follows the poker event held in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia last month. Black Diamond holds all worldwide distribution rights to the event, which ...
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C4 and RDF Media open up Rock School
Channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make Rock School , a 6 x 30-minute series designed to turn a group of teenagers into rock stars in one month. The group will be tutored by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons in the history of rock, song ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Jay Hunt
The BBC's senior commissioning executive, daytime wants ideas for returnable factual strands for mornings on BBC1 and wants pitches for any genre to fill the 6pm to 7pm slot on BBC2
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Thomson buys in to Corinthian TV
Thomson has bought a majority stake of playout specialist Corinthian Television Facilities for an undisclosed figure.
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VTR profits surge following investment in K-Post
Facilities group VTR has revealed a 72% increase in profits to£901,554 for the year ending September 2004.