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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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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 - 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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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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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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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 - 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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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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FORMATS & DEALS - FRENCH TO REMAKE WILDLIFE RESCUE SHOW.
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television.
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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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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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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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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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Interview: Stuart Murphy - A happy first birthday for BBC3?
Critics have ruthlessly dissected the ratings for the BBC's 12-old-month baby and questioned whether its£97m budget is money well spent. So does Stuart Murphy, BBC3's controller, have cause to celebrate?
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Opinion - In My View - Here's to you ITV plc.
ITV might be the darling of the Competition Commission, but has Charles Allen come to the end of his nine lives, asks Dawn Airey.
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Opinion - Comment - Confessing all over dinner.
Television increasingly relies on serving up private revelations for entertainment. It's all part of a rather worrying outbreak of confessionalitis in our culture, says Tessa Mayes.
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Opinion - 'I'm a DG ... get me in here!'.
There are more difficult jobs in the world than the role of director general at the BBC, but it's hard to think of any.
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Interview - Red's storyteller.
Putting the writer at the centre of the creative process is key for successful drama, says Nicola Shindler, whose indie, Red Production, is behind some of the most original television dramas of recent years.