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C5 BUYS IN TURNER'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
Channel 5 controller of acquisitions Jeff Ford has bought a 26 x 30-minute run of World Championship Wrestling Worldwide from Turner Productions.The show, which is already broadcast in the UK on
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TWO MORE GARDENING SHOWS IN PRODUCTION FOR BBC 2
BBC Birmingham network production is working on two gardening shows for BBC 2. The 8 x 30-minute BBC Gardener of the Year, presented by Alan Titchmarsh, is due to go out
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CARLTON COMMISSIONS LATE-NIGHT LONDON LISTINGS SLOT
London News Network has gone into production on a new late-night listings show for Carlton. The Buzz, a 14 x 15-minute show that aims to reveal what goes on in London
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ZENITH'S BOMBER UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Zenith Entertainment has gone into production on Bomber, a new 2 x 90-minute psychological thriller set in the world of bomb disposal. It has been written by Bob Heyland (Between the
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TRANSMEDIA GINOLA DOC TO AIR ON C5 IN SEPTEMBER
Indie Transmedia Productions has spent six months shooting footballer David Ginola for a Channel 5 documentary. The 60-minute show on the double player of the year - Ginola won both the
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NICKELODEON BUYS DR ZITBAG'S TRANSYLVANIA PETSHOP
Nickelodeon UK has bought two 13 x 30-minute series of SKD Media's Dr Zitbag's Transylvania Petshop, originally broadcast on Children's ITV in 1994. Transmission will begin from September. Nickelodeon has exclusive
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NATIONAL ENQUIRER FOCUS FOR USP SHOWBIZ GOSSIP SHOW
Radio indie USP Radio Projects has been commissioned to make a fortnightly Hollywood news and gossip show based around the US magazine National Enquirer.USP was commissioned by public relations company Aspect
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TalkBack lands C4 and BBC work
TalkBack Productions' features department has landed a slew of commissions for BBC 2 and Channel 4, including a series about female role models who have fallen from grace, writes Liz Shackleton.Production
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Two commissions for Brook Lapping
Brook Lapping Productions has won two documentary commissions from BBC 1 and ITV, one centred on the Battle of Britain and the other examining British disasters.Finest Hour is a 4 x
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Bad Girls defies criticism and wins a second series
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a second run of Shed Productions' Bad Girls, which he believes has the potential to be a long-running series, writes Ashley Davies.
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Poetic work for Century
Century Films is making a 90-minute programme based on Simon Armitage's Millennium Poem for Channel 4, writes Wale Azeez.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Channel 4 strikes out with Dockers drama
Channel 4's gritty feature-length drama, Dockers, stood its ground at 22.00 on Sunday (11 July), pulling in a respectable two million viewers (15 per cent), according to unofficial overnights, writes Liz Shackleton.
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Smith, Dyke lined up for RTS event
A face the press-style session featuring Media Secretary Chris Smith and BBC director general designate Greg Dyke's first public speech since his appointment are lined up for the Royal Television Society's
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Killick gets editor job at Watchdog
The BBC has drafted in a new editor for consumer affairs show Watchdog who has vowed to give the series 'more teeth', writes Tim Dams. Mark Killick, a senior reporter/producer for Panorama, joins on 4 August.
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Prebble named as Grabiner pulls out
Granada Media director of channels and interactive media Stuart Prebble has stepped in as On Digital chief executive after Stephen Grabiner resigned suddenly on Tuesday (12 July).Grabiner is understood to be
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STE staff move to London in revamp
Scottish Media Group (SMG) is folding production arm Scottish Television Enterprises (STE) back into its broadcasting business after a four-month review of operations sparked off by a fall in revenue and profit, writes Ashley Davies.
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OFT rebuffs Talk plea
Talk Radio's allegation that the BBC is behaving anti-competitively by refusing to carry its listings in BBC Worldwide's Radio Times has been rejected by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), writes John Plunkett.
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Wright boosts live music on R3
BBC Radio 3 controller Roger Wright has boosted the network's live music and arts programming in his first major programming overhaul, writes John Plunkett.
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CHRYSALIS TO INVEST
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment is to plough an extra£1 million into programme development this year, creating up to eight development producer jobs. The money will come from savings at corporate management
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ITC PUTS GUNS ON AGENDA
The Independent Television Commission has put discussion of Channel 4 documentary Guns on the Street on the agenda of its next monthly meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday 22 July. The