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FeaturesHot Picks: The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman has famously played God against Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty and Steve Carell in the sequel Evan Almighty.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Weiner
It has been a tumultuous year for US politics as the country approaches a landmark presidential election in November.
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NewsVice buys stake in Pulse
Vice Media has acquired a majority stake in Pineapple Dance Studios producer Pulse Films, Broadcast has learned.
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RatingsDonald Trump boosts Good Morning Britain
WEDNESDAY: The first UK broadcast interview with would-be US presidential candidate Donald Trump helped Good Morning Britain to its best audience in three weeks.
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Behind The ScenesBritain's Whales and Sharks, ITV
We had to wait 18 months for a whale to wash up on our shores, says Sarah Cunliffe. Then the sharks turned up…
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NewsTLC orders UK version of Say Yes To The Dress
US indie Half Yard Productions is to remake its hit series Say Yes To The Dress for TLC in the UK just months after producing a similar show for Channel 4.
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NewsRylan Clark to host C5 chat show
Channel 5 has ordered a weekly chat show hosted by Celebrity Big Brother winner Rylan Clark.
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NewsC4 duo reunite to launch indie
Gogglebox commissioner David Glover and Dragonfly TV managing director Mark Raphael are joining forces to establish a production company.
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NewsSky buys a spoonful of Sugar Films
Sky has taken a minority stake in Pat Younge’s production company Sugar Films, continuing its UK indie investment strategy.
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NewsPioneer lands Red Bull adventure doc
Red Bull has commissioned an Amazonian adventure documentary from Pioneer Productions.
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RatingsThe Tube transports 1.5m for C5
MONDAY: Channel 5’s London Underground documentary set off with a respectable audience as Davina McCall helped ITV to a slot-winning performance.
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NewsBBC4 visits James May's workshop
James May is to front a three-part Plum Pictures series for BBC4 in which the former Top Gear presenter will rebuild everyday objects to see what makes them tick.
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NewsHardcash boss: C4 investigative slate threatened by sale
Channel 4’s news and current affairs coverage would be compromised by privatisation, according to the boss of investigative indie Hardcash Productions.
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NewsCrackit lands first ITV commission
Crackit Productions’s fledgling Salford office has secured its debut commission and the indie’s first show for ITV – a documentary about discount chain Pep & Co.
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RatingsBrendan O’Carroll's Easter Rising doc lands 1m
WEDNESDAY: Brendan O’Carroll’s personal history of the Easter Rising informed 1m on BBC2.
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NewsBBC3 orders Jane Treays addiction doc
Mum, Heroin and Me director Jane Treays is to produce a Rare Day documentary about drug addiction for BBC3 – as Pulse Films secures a film about legal highs.
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NewsTheroux explores alcoholism and brain injury for BBC2
Louis Theroux will return to BBC2 this year with two hour-long films dealing with alcohol addiction and brain injury.
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News7 Wonder examines skinheads for BBC4
DJ and film director Don Letts is to appear in a BBC4 documentary about skinheads from 7 Wonder.
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NewsMo Farah doc races to BBC1
The Class of 92 indie Fulwell 73 has been commissioned to produce an hour-long documentary chartering Mo Farah’s brutal training schedule in the build up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.