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Zig Zag show to test out fitness
Zig Zag Productions is to put the top 10 celebrity fitness videos through their paces for a new Channel 4 show.
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Strictly Baby Ballroom for Channel 4
Channel 4 is attempting to cash in on viewers' current thirst for ballroom dancing with a dance show involving kids.
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BBC lines up TV chef Martin for Leopard'sStately Suppers
BBC controller of daytime Jay Hunt has commissioned a daytime cookery show featuring celebrity chef James Martin.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Graham Smith
Five's commissioning editor, comedy on a black comedy thriller we have to look forward to and his department's ongoing search for original half-hour series.
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Still Game wins BBC1 Christmas slot
Scottish comedy Still Game has won a place in BBC1's Christmas line-up, three months after getting its first network outing on BBC2. Glasgow-based indie the Comedy Unit will make a 30-minute festive special of the sitcom, which revolves around two pensioners in a fictional Glasgow suburb. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham ...
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BBC3 tells Christ's story through pop
BBC3 is planning a live Easter event which tells the story of the passion of Christ on the streets of Manchester to a soundtrack of pop songs. Members of the public will be invited to join in, with the procession culminating in the city's Albert Square. The programme, due for ...
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More4 hires Mentorn for Paris Doc
More4 has commissioned Mentorn Oxford to produce a fast turnaround documentary examining the recent French riots. In Paris In Flames, which will air in primetime on Saturday 10 December, reporter Sandra Jordan presents the first detailed analysis of why France exploded into violence. The 60-minute programme, executive produced by Eamonn ...
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BBC4 to screen life of US photographer
BBC4 has ordered an 80-minute feature documentary from Berwick Universal Pictures about US photographer O Winston Link and his wife, Conchita. The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover charts the story of the Link's marriage and tells how Conchita was jailed twice for stealing her husband's photos after their separation. The ...
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Bravo takes on football thugs
Bravo has greenlit a factual documentary series on football hooliganism, billed as a real-life version of Nick Love's hit film The Football Factory.
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BBC1 searches for Weds night entertainment
BBC1 is hunting for a midweek entertainment programme in a bid to revive what has been branded 'Black Wednesday'.
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NewsQueen's Sister serves C4 well
Channel 4's one-off drama about the life of Princess Margaret managed a comfortable reign over its nearest rivals.
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BBC finance job cuts
The BBC is proposing to cut around 60% of jobs from its finance division in the next three years. The number of posts in BBC finance will fall from around 650 in 2005/6 to 310 in 2006/7 and will reach around 260 by 2007/8. The reduction, which is being consulted ...
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5 live Xmas special
BBC Radio 5 Live has commissioned indie the Comedy Unit to make a 60-minute comedy sketch show reviewing the sporting year. Called Freddie Flintoff Ate My Ashes, the programme will air on Christmas Day and star Dead Ringers' Kevin Connelly and impressionists Kayvan Novak and Gabriel Quigley. Gus Beattie will ...
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Imago hires Gooch
Norwich-based independent Imago Productions has appointed former Topical Television head of development Nicola Gooch to be its new creative director. The former BBC commissioner has previously executive produced the BBC's independent daytime output and also worked at Planet 24.
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Regan goes to Living
Living TV has poached Steve Regan, executive producer, factual entertainment from Sky One. Regan, whose credits at Sky One included Football Icon, Death by Excess, Coked-Up Britain and Janet Street-Porter Saves the Monarchy, joined Living as commissioning editor on 14 November. Initially on a four-month contract he reports to Richard ...
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ITV keeps McDonald
ITV has signed veteran newsman Trevor McDonald for a further two years. McDonald, whose tenure as ITV's late news anchor finishes at the end of the year, signed a new deal this week to continue pre-senting Tonight and the National TV Awards and also new shows. Details of the new ...
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Fremantle Media in mobile TV launch
Fremantle Media is set to enter the burgeoning UK mobile TV market with plans to launch a local version of its upcoming US service Thumbdance.
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Reef's Uncharted Territory travels to US
Reef Television's BBC2 series Uncharted Territory is set to air in the US.
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Format focus: How Normal Are You?
The world's first 'socio-tainment' format attempts to make statistics sexy to the average viewer.
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GI does brisk business in Scandinavia
Granada International has sold three shows to broadcasters in Scandinavia. The Claire Sweeney-hosted design show 60 Minute Makeover has been picked up by TV Norge in Norway, while the documentary My Skin Could Kill Me has been acquired by TV Danmark, TV Norge and Kanal 5 in Sweden. Swedish state ...