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COMMISSIONS - UK STYLE TO MAKE HOUSE OUT OF STRAW UK.
Style has commissioned indie ACP TV to produce a 15 x 30-minute property series, Home Wasn't
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Commissioning - RDF to make Oz reality hit for ITV.
ITV1 has commissioned three primetime shows from leading indie producers for next year, including a round-the-clock
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Commissioner's Q&A - Ralph Lee.
History deputy commissioning editor Ralph Lee discusses Channel 4's programming plans for the next few months, the best ways to pitch to him and the challenge Saturday nights pose for the industry in the near future.
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COMMISSIONS - CHALLENGE BOSS COMMISSIONS CASINO SHOW.
The controller of Flextech games channel Challenge, Jonathan Webb, has commissioned a dramatised game show, Casino
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Commissioning - BBC Schools looks at dangers of reality TV.
The Cult director behind films such as Repo Man and Sid and Nancy has been asked to make a drama on the dangers of reality television for BBC Schools, writes Paul Revoir.
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Analysis - Profile - One mind or double trouble?
Granada's Charles Allen and Carlton's Michael Green have relentlessly pursued the goal of creating a single ITV company - but will it prove to be their downfall?
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Analysis - On the box - Move over Titchmarsh.
Dedicated Gardeners' World viewer Adam Wood applauds the supplanting of self-satisfied Yorshireman Alan Titchmarsh by curly-haired colossus Monty Don.
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Analysis - Ball's blue-sky thinking.
The response to Tony Ball's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival this year calling for the BBC to be reined in has been decidedly cool, but might there be some merit in his ideas after all, asks Conor Dignam.
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COMMISSIONS - LIVING TV ORDERS CHILD ABDUCTION DOC.
Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe has commissioned 10 x 30-minute Child Snatchers, a joint production
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COMMISSIONS - RADIO 4 TO EXPLORE WHY HISTORY IS FUNNY.
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to create a 2 x
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COMMISSIONS - ALL OUT WINS THREE ORDERS FROM RADIO 4.
Olympic athlete Diane Modahl will present a 5 x 15-minute series for BBC Radio 4 discussing
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Commissioning - Tern wins£1.5m of factual orders.
Scottish indie Tern Television Productions has picked up a raft of orders worth£1.5m, writes Michael Rosser.
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LBC'S INTERN PLAN.
London news station LBC is launching its first ever internship scheme in an effort to find
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GARBUTT FOR TRISHA.
Granada has promoted Lucy Garbutt to editor of ITV1 talk-show Trisha, when the new series starts
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FORMATS & DEALS - DISTRACTION SHOWS INTEREST IN PROSPECT.
Distraction Formats has picked up worldwide rights for UK indie Prospect Pictures' new ITV1 series Under
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FORMAT FOCUS: WHO WANTS TO MARRY MY DAD?
NBC's reality show mixes the best bits of Perfect Match with a sprinkle of Kids Say the Funniest Things. The result is a ratings juggernaut, writes Michael Rosser.
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CRONKITE WINS GONG.
Walter Cronkite, the legendary American television journalist, is to receive a lifetime achievement award from Newsworld
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FORMATS & DEALS - DUNNE JOINS CHORION TO DEVELOP BRAND.
Chorion, which own the rights to key Agatha Christie properties such as Miss Marple and Poirot,
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Bragg to tell the story of ITV.
Melvyn Bragg is to make a landmark series about the history of ITV, to be broadcast as a prelude to the channel's 50th birthday celebrations, writes Paul Revoir.
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BSC survey reveals big rise in sex on TV.
Sex scenes on television have more than tripled over the past five years, according to new