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Sky One spins off Road Wars
Sky One has commissioned a crime spin-off series of its successful police traffic footage show Road Wars.
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CBBC orders dog adventure
The company behind cult children's drama Press Gang has been commissioned to make a kids comedy drama for the BBC.
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Tiger Aspect makes CBBC animation
Tiger Aspect is to produce a new 26-part animated series for the BBC. Charlie and Lola is based on Lauren Child's children's books of the same name. Aimed at four to six-year-olds, the series, which is voiced by children, focuses on the adventures of seven-year-old ...
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Brian Waddell revs up top TV cars
Brian Waddell Productions is making a two-hour special for Sky One exploring the best cars that have featured on TV shows over the past 40 years, such as Knight Rider's Kitt. TV's Greatest Cars will count down the top 40 ...
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Five targets women with initial show
Initial is to film a star-studded charity concert for Five as part of a night targeting the channel's female audience. The event, titled the Asda Tickled Pink Girls' Night In: Live , will be staged at the Albert Hall next month. Produced by Clear ...
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BBC recommissions Prism's The Stables
Prism Entertainment has been commissioned by the BBC to produce a second series of children's docu-soap The Stables. CBBC controller Dorothy Prior and head of factual programmes Roy Milani have ordered a 10 x 27-minute follow-up to the first series to be shown on ...
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BBC hits quota shock!
For the first time in four years, the BBC has hit its target for independent production.
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XFM helps out student radio networks
XFM is throwing a lifeline to student radio stations after it emerged that the company behind many university networks, Campus Media, has been declared insolvent. The XFM Student Radio Partnership Programme will offer production and marketing support and funding for licences and equipment. This would include transmitting XFM free on ...
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C4 pulls out of bidding for Joey
Channel 4 has pulled out of the race for Friends spin-off Joey. Despite having a first-look option, the channel has refused to meet Warner Brothers' asking price. Five remains the favourite to land the sitcom, ahead of ITV.
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The Block hangs on to primetime slot
ITV is to persevere with ailing DIY reality show The Block by keeping next week's episode in its 9pm slot. The 8 x 60-minute RDF-produced show fared slightly better this week, putting on an extra 100,000 viewers on Tuesday night (10 August), giving it 2.7 ...
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Search for source of hutton leak fails
An investigation into who leaked the findings of the Hutton report to The Sun newspaper has failed to uncover the source. The Department for Constitutional Affairs began a probe after The Sun splashed on various key elements of the report, ...
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NewsSubs overtake ads as TV's main earner
Subscription has overtaken advertising revenue as the biggest source of income for British television for the first time in the medium's history.
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NewsFive movies rival pay-TV
Five is to premiere Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 3 before any of its pay-TV rivals after securing a major new movie deal with Sony Pictures Television International.
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NewsRDF to make C4 rival to BBC2's The Apprentice
Channel 4 is enlisting three charismatic millionaires for a formatted documentary to rival BBC2's The Apprentice.
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Humphreys joins C4 as pact ends
Channel 4 has marked the end of its no-poaching agreement with Five by signing the channel's recently departed commissioning editor for factual entertainment, Liam Humphreys.
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C4 talks over merger with Jowell
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has met with media secretary Tessa Jowell to discuss the viability of a proposed merger with Five.
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Thorogood takes ITV daytime job
UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has taken the role of editor of daytime at ITV.
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BBC2 seeks advice from Widdecombe
Tory MP and well-known battleaxe Ann Widdecombe is to become TV's latest agony aunt with a new BBC2 series in which she dishes out no-nonsense advice.
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NFTS brings in Bolland to build up TV courses
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) has poached BBC Scotland head of entertainment and comedy Mike Bolland to head a revamped television department at the college.
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Granada wins ABC pilot
Granada USA has secured a broadcast pilot commission from US broadcaster ABC for a show in which two strangers swap wallets and use their contents to live new lives for a week.