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FORMATS & DEALS - ELECTRIC SKY SELLS RIGHTS TO OCEAN SHOW.
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the
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COMMISSIONS - MOSAIC TO FOLLOW OLYMPIC FORTUNES.
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for
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COMMISSIONS - LION TO PRODUCE MORE HAMMER SHOWS.
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show
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COMMISSIONS - FREE@LAST TO MAKE SHORTS FOR UK GOLD.
Indie Free@Last is to produce a series of shorts for two themed weekends of comedy on
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Rebecca Johnson.
Bravo commissioning editor Rebecca Johnson is proud of her channel's new football show, Fashanu's Football Challenge, and talks of being a fan of US import 24 as well as Ant and Dec.
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Commissioning - Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role.
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Commissioning - Mentorn wins ITV class order.
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate, in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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On The Box - Dangerous public liaisons.
Colin Luke takes his hat off to a striking reality show and revealing documentaries, but is more bemused than impressed at jolly coppers carousing in the city streets.
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COMMISSIONS - KNOW COMMENT WINS BBC CONTRACT.
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson.
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case.
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Analysis - Profile - The view from 'Reality Row'.
After three years building up one of the biggest US outposts of a UK indie, RDF executive producer Cathy Rogers is heading home in search of fresh formats.
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Analysis - Are they the living dead?
Veteran TV journalist and former MP Martin Bell may soon be joining the board of governors at the BBC. But will the arrival of the white-suited crusader be enough to save the current governors? Steve Clarke reports.
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FORMAT FOCUS: ALTERNATIVE LOVE.
The BBC is taking a risk with a version of this on-location dating show with a 'love triangle twist', writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - ACTION TIME DOES FORMAT DEALS IN EUROPE.
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow
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COMMISSIONS - C4 ORDERS TWO NEW WIFE SWAP SERIES.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife
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FORMATS & DEALS - C4I DOES BRISK BUSINESS WITH AUSTRALIA.
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a
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FORMATS & DEALS - AMERICAN IDOL 3 SET FOR GLOBAL AIRING.
American Idol 3, the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol, is to be screened
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MORE RADIO LICENCES.
Ofcom is to create 35 radio licences around the country. The broadcasting regulator has earmarked Liverpool,
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TELEMAGINATION MD QUITS TO GO FREELANCE.
Marion Edwards, managing director of animation house Telemagination, is leaving the company after seven years. Edwards,
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Lion makes gay format for Fox.
Lion Television has strengthened its foothold in the US with a major new commission for the