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Skaramoosh holds cake election
Skaramoosh has designed 45 10-second links and a 40-second promo for Nickelodeon based on the general election. The 2005 Cake Elections take place at the so-called 'Houses of Partiment' beneath chiming 'Big Bun' where viewers will be asked to vote one of three cakes, referring to Nick toons shows such ...
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Five's new Home and Away spot
Five Creative Services has produced a 60-second image spot for Home and Away. The promo features cast members from the Australian soap playing beach volleyball with the sun, who were framed by director of photography Paul Barton to look as if they were giants. Directed by ...
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Pogo does M&M launch idents
Pogo Films has completed idents for Men and Motors for the channel's launch on Freeview. Photographer Marcus Tate shot black and white images which were superimposed with evocative words and the double M logo, which was created by 3D animator Andy Day of Tank. Pogo Films creative director Philip Richardson ...
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Tragedy strikes at reality show
The History Channel has pulled reality TV show The Colonyfrom its summer schedule after one of its participants was found dead last weekend.
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Charity do Rocks on
Indie Initial is to reprise its charity fashion and musical extravaganza, Fashion Rocks.
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Format focus: Project Runway
Aspiring designers compete to get their designs on the catwalk, as wannabe models slug it out to wear them.
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Five buys UK rights to house from NBC
Five's new director of acquisitions, Jay Kandola, has made her first purchase, buying the UK terrestrial rights to US medical drama Housefrom NBC Universal International Distribution. The show features Hugh Laurie in the lead role as Dr Gregory House, a maverick anti-social doctor who specialises in ...
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BBC sells The Greatest Show on Earth
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold football documentary The Greatest Show on Earthto broadcasters SVT in Sweden and SBS in Australia. The 6 x 50-minute series ' a collaboration between BBC Worldwide and Fifa ' traces the World Cup story from the 1930s to the present day, reconstructing ...
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Wunjo examines hidden evidence on Di
Wunjo Entertainment and film development company VIP have teamed up to make Hidden Evidence, a two-hour drama about Diana, Princess of Wales and the conspiracy theories surrounding her death. Based on Tom King's novel of the same name, Wunjo and VIP bought the worldwide rights directly ...
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C4I makes inroads into South America
Channel 4 International has sold Mentorn's drama-doc Hamburg Cellinto South America. The film, which focuses on the lives of the 9/11 bombers, has been picked up by pan-Latin American Pay TV channel LAPTV and Telecine in Brazil. C4I's Latin American programme sales executive Solange Ribeiro has ...
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C4 makes series on 'psycho' crime
Channel 4 is to follow up its Bodyshockstrand with a series of programmes on extreme criminal behaviour.
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Granada makes CGI one-off for Sky One
Granada has been commissioned to make another CGI special for Sky One - this time examining what would happen if two aeroplanes collided over a major city.
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Ryan recruited for How Not to Die show
Sky One has commissioned a new survival series in which members of the public are taught how to deal with a variety of traumatic situations from burglary to bush fires.
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Iambic covers Abba's greatest hits
Indie Iambic is revisiting the career of supergroup Abba for ITV1. Abba's All Time Greatest Hitsis a 90-minute programme featuring celebrities covering the group's 20 top songs. Ordered by ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, it is directed by Steve Cole and produced by Chris Hunt ...
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Take my mother-in-law back on ITV1
ITV1 has recommissioned Mentorn's reality show Take My Mother-in-Lawfor an extended run. The show, in which feisty mother-in-laws are handed the task of running their daughters' families, will return for a 6 x 60-minute series in October. The series was commissioned by ITV controller of factual ...
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King Arthur's disasters return to CITV
CiTV has commissioned a second series of Zenith Entertainment's animation series King Arthur's Disasters, which features the voices of Matt Lucas and Rik Mayall. The series, a co-production with Neptuno Films, will return for a 13 x 30-minute run later this year. Zenith head of children's ...
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Sunset + Vine wins Zapcats order
Sunset + Vine has been commissioned to cover the 2005 National Zapcats Championship for the Extreme Sports Channel. The TV Corp-owned indie will make a 9 x 30-minute series following the so-called 'Zapcat' offshore power boats over nine UK events. The championship started on Saturday (21 May) and continues until ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Joe Talbot
The Men & Motors' commissioning editor is planning to cater for an undervalued male audience by making programmes about cars and martial arts
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New head for Arrow
Chrysalis is to appoint Alan Carruthers as full-time programme director for its digital adult rock brand The Arrow. Carruthers, who also runs the radio group's West Midlands station 100.7 Heart FM, will step down as Heart programme director - a role he has occupied for eight years - when a ...
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Alani moves to indie
Indie Darlow Smithson has poached BBC veteran Adelene Alani to become its first factual executive producer. Alani has worked at the BBC since 1989, producing across a wide range of genres, including specialist factual, features and documentaries, and executive producing RTS award-winning Your Life in Their ...