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CRIME SQUAD GETS NEW ORDERS FROM BBC 1
The Crime Squad has been recommissioned for a 10 x 30-minute BBC 1 run this autumn. Produced by BBC News in Manchester, the reorder follows a five-part pilot series that has
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DAVIES VEHICLE BEING DRIVEN BY LUCKY DOG
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment-owned Lucky Dog has gone into pre-production with A Many Splintered Thing, an 8 x 30-minute comedy drama series starring Alan Davies. Costing£2 million, the series will be
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CAMERAS ROLLING FOR BBC 2 VERSION OF MADAME BOVARY
Filming has just begun on the BBC 2 adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's romantic tragedy Madame Bovary. A BBC films and serials co-production with WGBH Boston and BBC Worldwide, it is being
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OWEN'S TIPS SPEARHEAD GET YOUR KIT ON CAMPAIGN
Michael Owen is to kick off the BBC's Get Your Kit On campaign with a new BBC 2 programme called Michael Owen's Soccer Skills. Beginning on 10 September, the six-part series
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WISE BUDDAH FIELDING TOM JONES RADIO 2 BIOGRAPHY
BBC Radio 2 is to broadcast a 2 x 60-minute biography of Tom Jones to be produced by indie Wise Buddah. Tom Jones - The Boy from Nowhere will include interviews
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GAINSBOURG PLAY WILL STAR REAL-LIFE LOVER BIRKIN
Jane Birkin is to star in a BBC Radio 4 play about her life with lover Serge Gainsbourg, produced by independent Catherine Bailey Productions.Birkin and Gainsbourg gained notoriety when they recorded
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POSTPONED SUPERGRASS DOC WILL AIR IN AUGUST
Supergrass, LWT's documentary about a police informant for BBC 1's Inside Story, will now be broadcast on 4 August. The informant featured had taken out an injunction on the programme, originally
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Historical drama heads for BBC 1
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has commissioned Picture Palace Films and BBC Northern Ireland to make a historical drama series set during the run-up to Irish independence.Rebel Heart, a 4 x
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C4 orders 'family saga'
Channel 4 has commissioned a documentary series from Twenty Twenty Television charting the history of a family through the twentieth-century to mark the new millennium, writes Alice Macandrew.Billed as a 'family
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Band of Gold writer readies script
Band of Gold and Playing the Field writer Kay Mellor is scripting a new drama series for ITV called Fat Friends, writes Ashley Davies.The 8 x 60-minute series is about a
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Pacific to make two docs for Sky
Pacific Productions, the independent set up last year by Rachel Purnell, a former senior vice-president of MTV Networks Europe, has landed two new commissions for Sky One's autumn schedule, writes Alice
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Two Ronnies laugh off the competition
The Two Ronnies made a winning return to BBC 1 on Friday (16 July), pulling 8.8 million (43 per cent share) at 20.00 and eight million (38 per cent) for a
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Corporation to oppose privatisers
The BBC is expected to resist any proposals by the Davies committee to privatise BBC Resources or Worldwide, write John Lewis and Steve Clarke.It is also believed the corporation would fight
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New evidence on Guns doc
Fresh evidence over claims of fakery in the Channel 4 documentary Guns on the Street has been given to the Independent Television Commission.A confidential submission by the two Guardian journalists whose
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BBC's Evans grabs Arts Council post
BBC Production head of arts and classical music Kim Evans has been poached by the Arts Council and will leave in September to take up the new post of executive director
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BBC GOES TO WARR
BBC Production has appointed its first controller of talent management, responsible for managing relationships with on-screen and on-air talent. Rob Warr, currently channel editor for UK Arena, will take up the
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DYKE'S SOCCER PLEDGE
BBC director-general designate Greg Dyke this week vowed to win back football for the corporation and continue to challenge its rivals for ratings. Speaking to Gloria Hunniford on her Channel 5
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ICG HIRES FOUR NEW EXECS
Peter Grimsdale, head of factual in the BBC independent commissioning group (ICG), has appointed four new commissioning and development executives.Celia Taylor, series producer of Channel 4's Driven, has been recruited as
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PEARSON EYES GRADE
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade is reported to have been approached as a possible successor to Greg Dyke as Pearson Television chairman and chief executive.But Pearson insiders maintained that
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S4C POACHES HTV'S JONES
S4C has poached HTV Wales head of entertainment and arts Emlyn Penny Jones to be its head of channel management. From September, Jones will oversee S4C's strategy for digital terrestrial and