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It's all in the worst possible taste.
Sky One head of factual Matthew Paice has commissioned three independents to make 4 x 60-minute
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Formats & Deals - Little Britain and Dead Ringers sell to Oz.
BBC comedy Little Britain and satirical sketch show Dead Ringers have been picked up by Australian
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Formats & Deals - C4 child sex doc sells to Europe and USA.
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales for Cutting Edge documentary The Child Sex
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Formats & Deals - NHK buys Little Robots kids animation.
BBC Worldwide has sold pre-school animation series Little Robots to public Japanese broadcaster NHK. The series,
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Formats & Deals - ER to handle Japanese Toon across Europe.
Entertainment Rights, the owner of Basil Brush and Postman Pat, is to distribute Japanese animation series
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Formats & Deals - Electric Sky buys break-dancing rights.
Electric Sky has picked up the distribution rights to break-dancing documentary B-Boy Championships, in a bid
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Formats & Deals - Five's Frow signs up BBC property experts.
Ben Frow has made his first major signing as controller of features and entertainment at Five,
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Analysis - Profile - Can MacDonald make C4's day?
Is Adam MacDonald's mix of scheduling experience at the BBC and programme-making experience gained at Lion TV the dream ticket for revitalising C4's daytime?
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On the Box - In sickness and in hell.
Pert nurses and hellish holidays left Elaine Bedell feeling a bit queasy - luckily Kirstie Allsopp's wise words and Caroline Quentin's crises settled her stomach.
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Analysis - An impossible jigsaw.
When it was first suggested, the idea of a merger between Channel 4 and Five seemed absurd. But, as speculation intensifies, Steve Clarke asks what the advantages are of such a marriage of convenience.
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Opinion - In my view - Looking for new Friends.
As the BBC and ITV give US shows a wide berth, it's up to the niche channels to track down those worth picking up, writes Dawn Airey.
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Comment - Turning up the heat.
The furore surrounding the Hutton report threatens to dominate the Charter review process and gives credibility to David Elstein's dangerous break-up agenda, writes David Docherty.
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Opinion - The BBC: can we fix it?
The Panorama debate asked many questions about the future of the BBC but a vital one remains: who should run it?
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C4 loses news man.
Channel 4 News senior foreign editor Andrew Macdonald is leaving the programme. Since he joined in
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BBC opens archive.
The BBC has launched a website which will allow people to use its archive to make
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Commissioning - Quickfire scores two BBC series.
Former Granada head of history Mark Fielder's new indie, Quickfire Media, has picked up its first
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Commissioning - BBC4 cash earmarked for science and ethics.
BBC4 controller Roly Keating - who was given a£10m budget increase last month - has commissioned a range of science and ethics series in a bid to create more 'appointment to view' slots on the channel, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Commissioning - ITV Saturday night show gives the talentless hope.
RDF Media is to produce a new Saturday night entertainment show for ITV in which two of Britain's top music managers will each have to transform a talentless group of friends into a credible band of performers, writes Glen Mutel.
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Matt Tombs.
The head of entertainment and drama at UKTV is on the lookout for weekend event ideas for the group's new entertainment channel, UKTV G2, and is proud of the fact that UKTV Gold is not just a repeats outlet.
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Commissions - Heggessey brings back drama favourites.
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has recommissioned three of the channel's dramas. Filming on a new 8