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Greece takes 200 ready steady cooks
Screentime Partners has secured a raft of new distribution deals with formats including Ready Steady Cook and The Chair. A further 200 episodes of Endemol UK format Ready Steady Cook have been picked up by Mega Channel in Greece while another 44 episodes of quiz show The Chair have been ...
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BBC World to air on Italian DTT station
The BBC is poised to launch its 24-hour news and information channel BBC World on Italy's new digital terrestrial television service, which launches next month. The deal between BBC World and Italian broadcaster Mediaset will give the commercial channel access to around 50% of the Italian population through the free-to-air ...
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Distraction sells Dream home to Germans
Distraction Formats has completed its first European sale of reality lifestyle show Dream Home, to German producer Blue Eyes Film and Television. Blue Eyes is now in discussions with local broadcasters. The renovation show, which first aired in 1999 on TV2 in New Zealand, follows two young families over a ...
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Foregone conclusions
Sky's appointment of James Murdoch as chief executive doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.
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Lygo reshuffles T4 and 4Music staff
Channel 4's new director of television, Kevin Lygo, has made his first staff changes since joining the channel on Monday (3 November). He has handed head of scheduling Jules Oldroyd the extra responsibilities of T4 and 4Music and promoted deputy editor, T4 and 4Music Neil McCallum to editor.
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Kiss signs Bam Bam for 3 more years
Emap has held on to its breakfast DJ Bam Bam, handing him a£1m contract to stay at Kiss FM for another three years. The deal is an important one for Emap, publisher of Broadcast, which is keen to maintain consistency at Kiss before the London ...
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Mills and Nemone switch slots at Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is making further changes to its schedule to prepare for Chris Moyles' arrival on the breakfast show in January. Early morning DJ Scott Mills will change places in the schedule with Nemone, who currently broadcasts from 13.00 to 15.00 at the weekend. R1 head of mainstream programmes ...
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Pitman is appointed head of Merged ITV
Carlton's senior non-executive director Brian Pitman has been confirmed as the new interim chairman of the merged ITV. The appointment of the former head of Lloyds TSB followed the resignation of Carlton chairman Michael Green. The choice of Pitman in an interim role will go some way to quell fears ...
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BBC2 to examine Harley St doctors
BBC2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a series looking at the doctors and patients in London's famous Harley Street in the latest example of the resurgence of interest in docusoaps, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C4 goes inter sex
Channel 4 has ordered a brace of films from indie Wag TV looking at people with a rare disorder which makes them genetically one sex, although they look like the other, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Real Life Media scores shows
Leeds-based indie Real Life Media Productions has scored a raft of commissions including a series looking at the impact the birth of twins and triplets have on families, writes Jon Rogers.
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Anglia builds Demolition Day for C4
Granada's Anglia TV is producing a new science reality gameshow for Channel 4 in which contestants are challenged to build the strongest structure they can in 72 hours, writes Paul Revoir.
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Guinness on BBC2
The late actor Sir Alec Guinness is to feature in an Arena special to air on BBC2 at Christmas. The 90-minute Alec Guinness - A Secret Manwill be produced and directed by David Thompson, who had access to the actor's private journals and letters and ...
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Art deco profiled
UK Style has ordered 6 x 30-minute series Art Deco Designs from indie Colonial American Productions to air from 11 December at 20.00. Presented by Maureen Lipman the show follows couples who love Art Deco houses. The series was commissioned by UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood and the executive ...
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Forsyth in BBC1 show
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush have ordered a quiz show which will be fronted by former ITV star Bruce Forsyth. In the weekly Didn't They Do Well?two teams answer questions based on TV archives about major events, with a ...
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BBC4 Soul specials
BBC4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned two documentaries to air during a special 'soul weekender' on the channel early next year. The working titled Urban Soul, to be made by Smoking Dogs Films, will tell the story of modern R&B and its rise in popularity. ...
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Landrover on H&L
Discovery Home & Leisure channel director Paul Welling has commissioned independent producer i2i to produce a 15 x 30-minute show covering the restoration of an early series one Landrover, which was made between 1948 and 1958. A Landrover is Born, the seventh in Discovery Home & Leisure's ? ...
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No Going Back (C4) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'No Going Back is certainly a project for people who crave an adventure. But you can experience a similar kind of a...
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Five Things I Hate about You (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'The faults were such banal old chestnuts that it seemed only a matter of time before the position of the toilet se...
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What Not To Wear (BBC2) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'Match him [David Baddiel] up with salivating Sloane-style gurus Trinny and Susannah in What Not to Wear: Tribes of...