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C4I makes inroads into South America
Channel 4 International has sold Mentorn's drama-doc Hamburg Cellinto South America. The film, which focuses on the lives of the 9/11 bombers, has been picked up by pan-Latin American Pay TV channel LAPTV and Telecine in Brazil. C4I's Latin American programme sales executive Solange Ribeiro has ...
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C4 makes series on 'psycho' crime
Channel 4 is to follow up its Bodyshockstrand with a series of programmes on extreme criminal behaviour.
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Granada makes CGI one-off for Sky One
Granada has been commissioned to make another CGI special for Sky One - this time examining what would happen if two aeroplanes collided over a major city.
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Ryan recruited for How Not to Die show
Sky One has commissioned a new survival series in which members of the public are taught how to deal with a variety of traumatic situations from burglary to bush fires.
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Iambic covers Abba's greatest hits
Indie Iambic is revisiting the career of supergroup Abba for ITV1. Abba's All Time Greatest Hitsis a 90-minute programme featuring celebrities covering the group's 20 top songs. Ordered by ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, it is directed by Steve Cole and produced by Chris Hunt ...
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Take my mother-in-law back on ITV1
ITV1 has recommissioned Mentorn's reality show Take My Mother-in-Lawfor an extended run. The show, in which feisty mother-in-laws are handed the task of running their daughters' families, will return for a 6 x 60-minute series in October. The series was commissioned by ITV controller of factual ...
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King Arthur's disasters return to CITV
CiTV has commissioned a second series of Zenith Entertainment's animation series King Arthur's Disasters, which features the voices of Matt Lucas and Rik Mayall. The series, a co-production with Neptuno Films, will return for a 13 x 30-minute run later this year. Zenith head of children's ...
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Sunset + Vine wins Zapcats order
Sunset + Vine has been commissioned to cover the 2005 National Zapcats Championship for the Extreme Sports Channel. The TV Corp-owned indie will make a 9 x 30-minute series following the so-called 'Zapcat' offshore power boats over nine UK events. The championship started on Saturday (21 May) and continues until ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Joe Talbot
The Men & Motors' commissioning editor is planning to cater for an undervalued male audience by making programmes about cars and martial arts
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New head for Arrow
Chrysalis is to appoint Alan Carruthers as full-time programme director for its digital adult rock brand The Arrow. Carruthers, who also runs the radio group's West Midlands station 100.7 Heart FM, will step down as Heart programme director - a role he has occupied for eight years - when a ...
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Alani moves to indie
Indie Darlow Smithson has poached BBC veteran Adelene Alani to become its first factual executive producer. Alani has worked at the BBC since 1989, producing across a wide range of genres, including specialist factual, features and documentaries, and executive producing RTS award-winning Your Life in Their ...
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Row loses Spun Gold Jordan show
Spun Gold, the indie set up by former Carlton executive Nick Bullen, has lost the contract to make a second series of ITV2's Jordan and Peter: Laid Barefollowing disagreements with the couple's agents.
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Mobiles added to mix in BBC download trial
BBC viewers will be able to programme their computers to download TV shows using their mobile phones, through new technology being trialled by the corporation.
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Monkey Trousers' modest debut
Monkey Trousers, ITV1's new comedy sketch show, made something of a hesitant start despite the appearance of an all-star cast featuring the likes of Ronni Ancona, Steve Coogan and Vic Reeves.
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Duvet antics to be exposed in BB
C4's sixth series of Big Brotherlaunches this Friday (27 May) with a series of stunts and innovations designed to keep ratings on a par with last year's 'Evil' Big Brother. Executive producer Sharon Powers has revealed the show's latest innovations include heat ...
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BBC buys latest Wallace and Grommit
Aardman Animation's new feature-length film has been bought by the BBC in an exclusive deal for UK terrestrial TV rights. Wallace and Grommit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbitwill be screened on BBC1 in 2008, after being released in UK cinemas this year. The corporation has ...
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Deverell takes operating reins at CBBC
The BBC's head of interactive news has been made chief operating officer of children's BBC. Richard Deverell currently runs BBC news' interactive and on-demand services including online news, but from 20 June will take up his new post under incoming CBBC controller Alison Sharman. He will be replaced at BBC ...
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Love island keeps head above water
Audience figures for ITV1's high profile reality show Celebrity Love Islandhave managed to pick up but the show is still struggling. The show hit a low of just 2 million (9.8%) last Saturday (21 May) but has since clawed back viewers, with the 10pm episode on ...
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ITV1 hands Nigella daytime slot
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has signed up to host a new daytime magazine show on ITV1. Nigellawill include celebrity chat, discussions over current issues as well as featuring her famed cooking. Nick Thorogood, ITV's editor of daytime, has commissioned Prospect Pictures to make the show which ...
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C4I inks£100,000 development deal with indie Touch
Channel 4 International has signed a two-year development and distribution contract with Touch Productions, the producer of BBC1's Separating Twins.