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Discovery health reorders Slimming Club
Discovery Health has ordered a second series of Slimming Club from Yorkshire TV's factual department. The 15 x 30-minute show, which follows the trials and tribulations of people in a diet support group, will air later this year.
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Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade to return
BBC Radio 2 head of programmes Lesley Douglas has commissioned radio indie Wise Buddah to produce a fifth series of Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade. Featuring new jazz releases, special guests and news, the 8 x 60-minute series is scheduled for broadcast in December and will be produced by Sarah Cropper.
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BBC Communities project extended to Radio 4
A major BBC initiative aimed at forging closer ties with local communities is extending to Radio 4 and the Community Channel. Programmes created by the Voices project, handled by BBC Nations & Regions, have run on BBC TV since March but from 13 July a selection of 12 films will ...
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Leopard to soup up cars for Discovery and C4
Leopard Films has picked up a co-commission from Discovery Networks Europe and Channel 4 for a second 10-part series of Thunder Races. The 10 x 60-minute series, which will air first on Discovery and then later on C4, follows three teams of car enthusiasts as they transform an old banger ...
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Radio 4 reorders cross-dressing comedy
The comedy writing couple behind ITV's Faith in the Future and BBC1 series Next of Kin have been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 commissioning editor, drama and entertainment Caroline Raphael to pen a third series of cross-dressing comedy The Change. Scripted by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie, the series will ...
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Superbike star gets his own documentary
Granada Men & Motors has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute fly-on-the-wall series from indie Octagon following the UK's top superbike rider Neil Hodgson as he attempts to win the 2003 Superbike World Championship. Airing from 21 August, Superbiker goes behind the scenes from the paddock to the testing grounds to ...
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Rolf Harris to receive Albert Hall tribute
BBC1 is to commemorate artist and singer Rolf Harris' 50-year TV career with a major event at the Royal Albert Hall. The Animal Hospital host will host Rolf at The Royal Albert Hall in which he will perform a variety of musical and artistic endeavours including 'a giant sing-along'. The ...
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The Bridge's refit underway
Soho audio post-production facility The Bridge is part of the way through a major refit that will see all three of its suites upgraded with the installation of networked hard disk
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Idol win for Marberger
Tobias Marberger, a 29-year-old Swedish composer, romped home in the voting for this year's inaugural Extreme Idol, the Broadcast magazine and Extreme Music search for a new production music superstar. Dubbed
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Churchill Restored
London facility house The Machine Room has restored, treated and edited both old and new footage for three one-hour programmes that chart the life of former British prime minister Sir Winston
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BBC mounts biggest Glastonbury set-up
BBC Outside Broadcast is throwing two brand-new trucks, 15km of video cable, 27 VTRs, 30 cameras and 100 technical staff at the coverage of this year's Glastonbury Festival, writes Sam Espensen.As
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NewsITV lines up mother-in-law reality show
ITV's new controller of factual Bridget Boseley has marked ITV's new push into edgier factual programming with her first commission - a show which forces people to take their mother-in-law into their homes for a week, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsGovernment seeks to appease Puttnam
Government ministers are holding eleventh-hour talks with rebel peer Lord Puttnam in a bid to head off a Labour rebellion over moves that would allow large newspaper groups such as Rupert Murdoch's News International to buy Five, writes David Rose.
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NewsRights contest kicks off
The door has been opened to the BBC and ITV to end BskyB's exclusive live coverage of English Premiership football - but the big question now is whether they can afford to walk through it, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Hit 40 UK grabs BBC's Meadows
Commercial radio chart show Hit 40 UK has poached a key BBC radio executive producer and extended its reach to over 100 stations, writes Michael Rosser.
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Doc to profile 'love rat' Hewitt
The producer of Channel 4's The Real Heather McCartneyhas gained no-holds-barred access to Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt for its next C4 film, writes Penny Hughes.
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C4 orders second Prejudice
Channel 4 has recommissioned 12 Yard's controversial hidden-camera gameshow Without Prejudice?, writes Penny Hughes.
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It's Oasis vs McGee in Glasgow radio battle
Rock group Oasis will go head to head with estranged manager Alan McGee in rival bids for Glasgow's new FM radio licence. The Gallagher brothers have pledged their support to SMG's
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ITC to hold seminar for teleshopping channels
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) and leading players in the teleshopping industry will next week hold a one-day seminar on the future shape of regulation in the industry and how the sector can lose its cowboy image, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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BBC Worldwide exec takes IP role at Tweenies indie
Kids indie Tell-Tale, the company behind Tweenies, has recruited a former senior BBC Worldwide figure, Mike Dee, to become its first director of intellectual property, writes Rosemary Gallagher.