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Living TV orders child abduction doc
Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe has commissioned 10 x 30-minute Child Snatchers, a joint production from Scallywag and Pre-requisite Films, examining the issue of parental child abduction. Set to air on 20 October, the producers are Tish Adudua for Scallywag and Neil Blewett for ...
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Radio 4 to explore why history is funny
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to create a 2 x 30-minute investigation into how comedy plumbs history for laughs. Ha Ha Historywill explore how writers have used the past for humorous material such as ...
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All Out wins three orders from Radio 4
Olympic athlete Diane Modahl will present a 5 x 15-minute series for BBC Radio 4 discussing the experiences of Olympians. Olympic Stories, from indie All Out Productions, will air during the next Olympic games in 2004 and is produced by Rebecca Sandles. R4 has also ...
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Carlton biopic marks 9/11 anniversary
Carlton International has sold its TV movie biopic of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to leading Japanese commercial station TV Tokyo. Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, made by Carlton America, will be broadcast to mark the second anniversary of the 9/11 New York terrorist ...
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Scandinavia scoops 70 hours of C4
Channel 4 International has sold more than 70 hours of programming to Scandinavian broadcasters. Broadcasters in Denmark (TV2), Finland (YLE and Nelonen), Sweden (Kanal 5), Norway (TV Norge) and Iceland (RUV) have snapped up a range of programmes including Ali in Da USA, documentary ...
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Distraction shows interest in Prospect
Distraction Formats has picked up worldwide rights for UK indie Prospect Pictures' new ITV1 series Under One Roof. The factual-based entertainment format sees a psychologist and body language expert move in with warring couples for 48 hours to help them sort out their problems. The ...
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Dunne joins Chorion to develop brand
Chorion, which own the rights to key Agatha Christie properties such as Miss Marpleand Poirot, has appointed Len Dunne as director for brand development. Dunne joins the company from Entertainment Rights where he was head of marketing and global brands.
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NewsElstein intensifies ITV war of words
The fierce war of words between ITV's senior management and former Five chief executive David Elstein deepened this week with a series of personal attacks, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsBBC in 'watering hole' scheme
The BBC's commissioning system is to undergo a further change with the introduction of a scheme in which a variety of different BBC voices are called on to develop and test programmes before they are commissioned, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsDyke on the offensive
BBC director general Greg Dyke turned his guns on both ITV and Sky at the Edinburgh Festival and if he was worried about the outcome of the Hutton inquiry he hid it well.
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ITC taken to task over paranormal
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has been attacked for its recent decision to allow broadcasters to screen 'dishonest' entertainment-based paranormal programming, writes Paul Revoir. At a session on Saturday examining the
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New UK president for USN
Dan Marks has been appointed UK president of Universal Studios Networks (USN), replacing Janet Goldsmith who quit earlier this month, writes Gavin Stamp
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UK Style to make house out of straw
UK Style has commissioned indie ACP TV to produce a 15 x 30-minute property series, Home Wasn't Built in a Day. Ordered by head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood, each episode tracks attempts to build a home in 24 hours with unusual materials like soil and ...
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NewsBBC dominates list of best-ever TV shows
Radio Times' TV Editor Alison Graham has compiled a list of the 40 best television shows - 29 of which were broadcast by the BBC - with only 2 from ITV, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsElstein plans ITV management overhaul
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has lined up former finance directors of BSkyB and Five to take senior executive roles in a single ITV, should the proposed merger between Carlton and Granada go ahead.
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NewsBig Brother's O'Leary angers religious set
Dermot O'Leary has angered religious viewers by suggesting that Big Brother contestants could use the Bible as a substitute for toilet paper, writes Michael Rosser
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NewsBSC finds massive increase in sex on TV
Sex scenes on television have more than tripled over the past five years, according to new research, writes Gavin Stamp
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NewsC4 offers up£30,000 for new doc
Channel 4 is once again offering filmmakers the opportunity to pitch for a£30,000 commission at this year's Sheffield International Documentary Festival, writes Gavin Stamp
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Mannion accuses Fox News of 'lying'
ITV News editor David Mannion launched a stinging attack on US broadcaster Fox News by accusing them of