Small MPU – Page 707
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BBC's Beautiful People to return
BBC2 has ordered a second series of Beautiful People, the comedy drama adapted from Simon Doonan's memoir by Gimme Gimme Gimme creator Jonathan Harvey.
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Lord Carter: C4-Five merger still viable
The government is to issue an open invitation to broadcasters and other interested parties to come forward with proposals for solving Channel 4's funding crisis.
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BBC's This Week up for grabs to indie sector
BBC News is putting the contract for current affairs series This Week out to tender - in order that in-house production can hit its nations and regions targets.
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Sam Mendes to exec Lost in Austen movie
ITV's Jane Austen time-travel drama Lost in Austen is to be turned into a movie, with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes as an executive producer.
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C4 News names indie fund commissioner
Channel 4 News has appointed Mike Radford to the role of commissioning editor for its independents fund.
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Discovery slate to build on its US-style rebrand
Discovery Channel UK is set to usher in a raft of programming with a new logo and redesigned programming menus.
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Five expands its shock docs
Five has commissioned an extended run of its Extraordinary People strand, upping its order to 12 films for the next series.
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BBC2's Rocket Science promises fireworks
The team behind Operatunity and Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo! will attempt to inspire a passion for science among children in a BBC2 series.
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Indies fear losing out in Knowledge restructure
Indies are fearful that the commissioning restruct-ure at BBC Knowledge will favour in-house prod-ucers and that they are being “penalised” for their success in the Window of Creative Competition.
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Blighty set for launch with the best of British
Dom Joly will build on UKTV People's rebranding to Blighty with an irreverent tour of the British Isles in which he will restock his home with items made in this country.
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Women like ITV3's Ladies
ITV3's first ever comedy drama commission made something of a splash on its maiden voyage.
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Paramount Comedy to rebrand in April
Paramount Comedy is to be re-named Comedy Central and will place a fresh emphasis on original UK commissions.
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It could be so good for Five
Five was duckin' 'n' divin' on Wednesday night thanks to its remake of the TV classic Minder.
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ITV1 tackles female body image in beauty season
An eight-months pregnant Louise Redknapp will investigate the culture of skinny mums as part of a three-part beauty season for ITV1.
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Massie steps down from 19 Entertainment
Shiny floor expert Bob Massie has left his role as head of UK television at 19 Entertainment.
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Endemol adds Forscene workflow
Endemol is using web-based editing and logging tools from Forbidden Technologies to speed up production on two of its factual shows.
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Channel 4 orders ‘Grand Designs for gardens'
Channel 4 has ordered a “Grand Designs for gardens” series from indie Red House.
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Procam on the move
Equipment hire and crewing firm Procam Television will move to a new purpose-built facility in April.
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Omoshebi to join Ascent 142
Ascent142 has poached Life on Mars colourist Jet Omoshebi from rival Pepper.
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ITV vows 'iced' dramas will go out this year
ITV has pledged that more than£10m of drama currently on its shelves will be aired later this year - despite industry fears that some of the shows would never see the light of day.