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Five follows Peter Duncan's family trek
Former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan will present a children's series for Five that will follow him and his family through mainland China. Chinese Breakaway has been commissioned by Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson for the Christmas schedule. The 6 x 30-minute show will air weekdays at 10.30 ...
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CNN signs top journalists for shows
CNN International general manager Rena Golden has lined up two documentary reports from award-winning journalists for its winter schedule. On 6 and 7 December in a 60-minute CNN Our Planet report, global environmental correspondent Gary Strieker visits the island of Madagascar to make Frontline of ...
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Radio 2 rounds up celebs for christmas
BBC Radio 2 has commissioned Wise Buddah to develop three celebrity-fronted programmes for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, comedian Lenny Henry will present a 60-minute tribute to Barry White in Let the Music Play while Simon Mayo will host a two-hour show in which some of ...
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Winstone's Size 9 makes drama in Turkey
Actor Ray Winstone has unveiled details of his new indie, Size 9 Productions, which has already secured a two-part commission from ITV1. Formed by Winstone and producer Joshua St Johnston and agent Michael Wiggs, Size 9 is making She's Gone, which follows the disappearance in ...
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Sky AGM to address Murdoch issues
BSkyB shareholders will vote on Friday (14 November) at the satellite broadcaster's annual general meeting on a number of issues, including whether new chief executive James Murdoch should keep his place on the board as a non-executive director. Shareholders are also expected to vote Lord St John of Fawsley off ...
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NewsFive gets Frow and£13m cash boost
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has been handed a£13m budget boost and has poached Channel 4's head of features and factual entertainment, Ben Frow, to help spend it.
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NewsShaps shakes up production
Granada director of factual Jim Allen is poised to be handed a beefed-up role in the merged ITV production arm, heading a combined factual and entertainment department.
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NewsSaban enlists old ally to look at ITV bid
Haim Saban, the Israeli-American media mogul, has enlisted his former European associate Ynon Kreiz to help in his attempt to launch a takeover bid for ITV.
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NewsCheeky BBC1 show brings back Monkey
Monkey, the knitted simian mascot of the ill-fated ITV Digital, is set to take on ITV stalwarts Ant and Dec by fronting his own star-studded family entertainment show on the BBC.
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ITV1 sends single women into bush
ITV1 is set to come to the aid of lonely farmers living in the Australian bush with a£1.2m dating show in which British women travel down under in search of potential husbands in the Outback.
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Brook unveils TV venture
Former Channel 4 director of strategy and development David Brook has unveiled his first television venture - Nation 277 - and plans to launch around five channels on Sky.
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C4 extends online submission system
Channel 4 is rolling out its online pitching system across the whole channel from the beginning of ecember and will no longer accept ideas from members of the public.
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Popper latest to abandon C4
Channel 4 director of television Kevin Lygo has lost another entertainment executive after commissioning editor for comedy Robert Popper quit to make a series for the BBC.
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Living taps in to live psychic show
Living TV is bulking up its paranormal output with a daily live teatime psychic show in which mediums will work with celebrities to try and contact the dead.
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MTV targets rock fans with VH2 launch
MTV Networks UK is set to launch its ninth music channel - a spin-off of VH1 featuring rock and guitar-based music from the past decade.
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Zeppotron MD quits for Lion
Paul Gilheany has quit as managing director of Endemol UK's comedy division, Zeppotron, to take an executive entertainment role at indie Lion Television.
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Tragic loss at Clear
Clear Facilities director Damien Raymond-Barker lost his two-year battle with cancer last week. He was 33 and is survived by his partner, Tanya Johnson, head of production at Red, and his two-year-old son, Max. Damien was an integral part of Clear and its chief executive, Greg Caplan, said: 'He was ...
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EPG wins RTS award
The 2003 RTS Award for Technical Innovation has been won by the Vista (virtual human interface for a set-top box agent) project, an electronic programme guide (EPG) that aims to improve visually impaired and elderly viewers' access to digital TV. It has become apparent that viewers who are elderly or ...
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NewsCash boost for ITV News Channel
The ITV News Channel has been handed a cash boost in the region of£1.6m by Carlton and Granada, as the channel approaches its first year anniversary as an ITV branded proposition.
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Celebrity Wife Swap (C4) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'Swap a cheat's wife with a woman who is trying to make a career out of being intellectually sub-normal and you hav...