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Bikes to battle it out on Men & Motors
Men & Motors channel controller Lesley Johnson has commissioned The Creation Company to produce a 6 x 30-minute series comparing the 'the hottest sports bikes on the market to the best race bikes in the world'. Road v Race, to air in the winter, will ...
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Disney serves cheesy cartoon for autumn
Toon Disney Channel is unveiling a brand new 26 x 30-minute animated series, Ratz, from 1 September. The show will air at 08.25 in a weekly slot as part of its autumn schedule. The series, bought from French production company Xilam for the cartoon channel, ...
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Fame Academy hits tech snag
The second series of the BBC's multimillion pound reality TV show Fame Academywill air for the first time tomorrow night (26 July) despite suffering serious technical difficulties during pre-production, writes Sam Espensen.
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Celador wins R4 comic arts order
Celador Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to develop a new arts discussion show, with a comedy twist, writes Michael Rosser.
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Stand-up Bloom takes his problem to R4
Stand-up comedian Adam Bloom is making his first foray into radio with his own show on BBC Radio 4. The 6 x 15-minute series, The Problem with Adam Bloom, will mix stand-up with reconstructions of real events examining topics such as the origin of gossip ...
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BBC4 examines what if? scenarios
Comedian Clive Anderson is to present a BBC4 series which will look at how past events might have turned out if we had known what we know now. Each episode of the six-part What If?will see Anderson joined by three studio guests discussing a particular ...
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Somethin' Else gives R2 more soul solutions
Radio and TV indie Somethin' Else has been asked to make a third series of its Mica Paris-fronted soul music series Soul Solutionsfor BBC Radio 2. Commissioned by Radio 2 head of programmes Lesley Douglas, the 16 x 30-minute series, which will air from 6 ...
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ITV1 gives boot challenge another run
LNN Factuals has picked up another series order for Boot Sale Challenge, the ITV regional show in which two teams of bargain hunters battle to find bits of junk worth a small fortune. LWT deputy director of broadcasting Geraldine Woods has ordered the 12 x ...
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NewsSpooks producer to make C4 drama
Channel 4 has ordered a low-budget, feature-length drama from the producers of Spooks looking at the sexual exploits of a group of Liverpool teenagers, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsAndrews appoints head of CITV programming
ITV controller of children's programming Steven Andrew is pushing ahead with plans to turn the CITV brand into a major kids business after appointing Estelle Hughes as head of CITV programming.
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NewsCartoon character causes offence
Mencap has criticised the BBC over a character in one of its cartoon series that it says is deeply offensive to people with Down's Syndrome, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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The BBC must not be a casualty of war
All of us in the Westminster village - politicians, government officials, journalists - ought to be ashamed of ours...
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Blair denies authorising the leak of Kelly's identity
Tony Blair yesterday give his most robust defence of the government's conduct in the David Kelly affair, insisting ...
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BBC denies that Lego link breaches code
A BBC children's show being used as a launch pad for a new range of Lego products was devised and part-funded by th...
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BBC to produce Kelly tape in bid to exonerate reporter
The BBC has a tape of David Kelly expressing serious concern about how Downing Street made the case for war ...
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BBC claims it has tape of scientist criticising Number 10
The BBC says it has a tape recording of Dr David Kelly voicing serious concerns over the role of Downing Street in ...
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The BBC dragon needs slimming not slaying
Simon Jenkins on the situation faced by the BBC over the death of Dr David Kelly ...
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BBC admits ?slips of tongue' over Kelly
The BBC admitted yesterday that it had made 'slips of the tongue' in describing its source for bitterly contested a...
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Newsnight journalist has tape of Kelly's interview
The BBC said last night that it has a tape recording of Dr David Kelly in which he claims that the government was d...