All Commissioning articles – Page 282
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Sky 1 seeks Silver Surfers
Sky 1 is teaming a group of OAPs with YouTube friendly youths in a six-part series from Princess Productions.
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BBC2 eyes Love-produced pottery competition
The Great British Bake Off producer Love Productions is looking to recreate its success in the kitchen with a pottery themed competition for BBC2.
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BBC to adapt J.K Rowling's detective novels
The BBC is developing a TV series based on J.K Rowling’s detective novels The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm.
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Sean Bean to front doc on Waterloo for History
Actor Sean Bean is to present a two-hour documentary marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo for pay-TV broadcaster History.
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Sex, crime and self-harm feature in raft of C4 docs
Self-harm, child sex offenders and Europe’s largest brothel will be explored in six Channel 4 docs from the commissioner behind The Paedophile Hunter.
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Blast! delivers Post Office doc to BBC2
The Tube producer Blast! Films is to turn its attention to the Post Office for its latest BBC2 ob-doc series.
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Guy Martin short films race onto Channel 4
Guy Martin’s Passion For Life has become the first show from Channel 4’s online Shorts platform to make the leap onto linear television.
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Kudos lands Channel 4 comedy pilot
Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman will feature in a Channel 4 comedy pilot from Kudos Film & Television to be penned and directed by Bafta-nominated Will Sharpe.
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Gold digs out Bob Monkhouse joke books
UKTV has ordered a documentary series about the life of Bob Monkhouse for Gold.
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Toast of London to return for third outing
Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of Objective Productions’ comedy Toast of London.
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Educating… heads to Cardiff
Channel 4’s Educating… strand is to leave England for the first time with a fourth series set in the Welsh capital city.
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C5 revs up dashcam car show
Channel 5 has commissioned a driving clips show from Shine North featuring an array of ‘dashcam’ footage.
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BBC1 lures Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is to make his first series for BBC1 - a three-part investigation into food waste.
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Tern secures 20 hours of BBC nations output
Tern Television has picked up over 20 hours of commissions from BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland, including a six-part documentary about Britain’s leading ski resort.
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ITV orders Planet's Got Talent
A back-flipping dog and a man who washes himself in soup are set to appear in an ITV spin-off of Britain’s Got Talent.
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Chris Tarrant to front RDF quiz show pilot
Chris Tarrant is lining up his first major quiz show since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with a new pilot produced by RDF Television.
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C4 travels to Skeg Vegas
Channel 4 is to visit the seaside town of Skegness in a doc from Swan Films, the production company behind Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
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Alaska delivers Domino's to Channel 4
Alaska TV is to deliver an ob-doc about pizza chain Domino’s to Channel 4.
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Chocolate scoops C5 & Sky shows
NBC Universal’s Chocolate Media has won a pair of factual commissions for Channel 5 and Sky.
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Reggie Yates’ Russia trip leads BBC3 factual slate
Reggie Yates is to investigate the extremes of Russian society in a BBC3 series that forms the centrepiece of a raft of factual commissions for the channel.