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Mainframe brands sitcom battle
The 12-week battle to decide on Britain's Best Sitcom begins this weekend and, to help the nation choose, Mainframe has produced the branding package for the series.
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MPC conjures up surreality TV
Inseparable Bonds is the latest short film from Lars Magnus Holmgren, who won a Turner nomination for his work with artist Liam Gillick, AnLee You Propose.
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RDFI sells Holiday Showdown to Oz
RDF International (RDFI) has sold its ITV1 format Holiday Showdown to Network 9 in Australia as part of a host of deals.
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Mentorn wins£20m Fox order
Mentorn has secured a further $20m from US broadcaster Fox after getting the greenlight for a 25-hour first instalment of 'never-ending' reality show, Forever Eden.
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BBC takes on US' Arrested Development
The BBC has secured the exclusive UK television rights to the acclaimed US comedy Arrested Development from 20th Century Fox TV.
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Channel 4 picks up Britney
Fremantle International Distribution has scored 25 sales for ABC's behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. Channel 4 is among those which will screen Britney Spears: In the Zone , after Fremantle picked up the rights to distribute the 60-minute programme in November. Other European broadcasters ...
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Format focus: Harem
Will the British public fall for a Swedish dating show where women call the shots, asks Michael Rosser
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C4I chalks up That'll Teach 'Em deal
Channel 4 International has optioned the format of That'll Teach 'Em to Endemol Spain. The reality format, in which a class of pupils are put through a month-long 1950s-style boarding school regime, has already been picked up by Endemol in France, Italy and the Netherlands as well as Tresor Television ...
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What about Mimi? makes return to CITV
Decode Entertainment has sold a further 13 episodes of animated series What About Mimi? to ITV children's strand CiTV. The deal follows an initial pick-up of the first 13 x 22-minute episodes in September. The second season of the Canadian series, which follows the adventures ...
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Cheaters set to appear on European TV
Distraction Formats has agreed a series of European deals with gameshow Dirty Rotten Cheaters. TWI Entertainment is already developing the format for the UK, but StormyEyeworks is now working on a German version of the show, which could go to parent company RTL Television. ...
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Fireworks shows get UK showings
Fireworks International has secured a range of deals with broadcasters in the UK for action, adventure, drama and kids live-action series. Sky One has committed to the third season of Mutant X while Granada Sky Broadcasting has acquired all 52 episodes of crime drama series ...
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Electric Sky takes shark bay catalogue
Factual distributor Electric Sky has picked up the international rights to Shark Bay Films' catalogue of marine-based films as part of its plans to develop a natural history slate. The deal will see the Brighton-based distributor start with five titles, including Secrets of Southern ...
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BBC offers fresh take on history
Nick Knowles, the presenter of BBC1's long-running home improvement show DIY SOS , has written a six-part comedy history series for BBC1 in which he travels back in time to meet notorious figures such as Dick Turpin.
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Most Haunted spins off two
Living TV is set to build on the success of its ratings banker Most Haunted by launching a brace of spin-off shows.
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Lion builds on successful Bad Behaviour
Lion Television is to revisit the subject of badly behaved children for a Channel 4 series.
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The Lab unveils capital shows
The Lab has landed four commissions for LWT including a history series on the second world war.
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S4C to screen second Fireman Sam series
Animated children's show Fireman Sam is set to return to S4C for another Welsh-language series in 2005. The channel is currently screening the first series of the programme - its first new series since 1994. In addition, the BBC will screen English-language versions of both ...
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ITV dramatises life of Hurricane Higgins
Carlton is set to make a two-hour ITV drama based on the career of snooker wild man Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Producers are currently choosing a writer for the drama, which will be based on the Irishman's life as described in the unauthorised biography of him by Bill Borrows. Carlton's James ...
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Avalon brings up third TV burp with Hill
Off-the-wall comic Harry Hill has been lined up by ITV1 to present a third series of his television review show. Avalon Television has been recommissioned to make an 8 x 30-minute series of Harry Hill's TV Burp, which is due to be screened from mid-February. Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday ...
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Tiger claws recommission for Teachers
Tiger Aspect has scored recommissions for Channel 4 high-school comedy drama Teachers and BBC crime drama Murphy's Law. Teachers will return for a fourth 9 x 60-minute series. Jane Fallon will executive produce while ...