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Giving us a natural high
As the audiences for Andy Murray's Wimbledon run and the Champions League final show, sport still offers us the ultimate in drama and entertainment, writes Lawrence Duffy.
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Slow and steady wins
Is the promise of quick mega bucks behind a rash of commissions for sketch shows, asks Kenton Allen.
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BBC3 defies its critics
Subject to criticism from day one, BBC3 has fought back to fulfil its remit - and pick up a Broadcast Digital Channel Award.
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Five orders doc about oldest mother
Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson
The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.
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BBC2 lines up new archive programme
BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...
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Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE
Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...
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Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV
CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...
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Granada to make celeb show in US
Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes-style show for US network NBC, working titled I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.
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Bisexual Girls makes its US mark for Betty
Betty TV has made its first mark in the US market - selling Bisexual Girlsto US broadcaster Independent Film Channel.
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Play School to be remade in Maori
Play Schoolis to be remade in the Maori language after BBC Worldwide sold the rights to the format to a New Zealand producer. Maui Productions will make 260 x 30-minute episodes of the classic children's series, renaming its characters for the Maori audience. Humpty Dumpty will be called Hamuti Tamuti, ...
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Format focus: Ultimate Raid
Celebrities pick the books, music and movies that have formed the cultural backdrop to their lives.
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Nissan pays for travel series
Car manufacturer Nissan has paid for a 26 x 30-minute travel and motoring series which it plans to offer free to broadcasters in exchange for branding and adverts for its 4x4 vehicles around the show. The advertiser-funded series is being produced by Pro Active Television and distributed by its sister ...
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TWI takes cookery show down under
TWI has sold its daytime series Chef v Britain, which kicked off on ITV1 this week, to Australian broadcaster Nine Network. The 15 x 30-minute cookery challenge show, presented by Claire Sweeney and TV chef Gino d'Acampo, features members of the public going head to head ...
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Granada makes sales in eastern Europe
Granada International has sold a raft of TV movies including Dangerous Watersand Dead Will Tellto RTL Klub in Hungary as part of a series of eastern European deals. Pro TV in Romania has acquired a package of 24 TV movies, ITC and ...
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Lion ramps up operations for US assault
Lion TV has expanded its operations in the US, opening a new office in California and promoting one of its executive producers to run its New York base. Tracy Green has been appointed to head the new Santa Monica office, developing original programmes and selling UK formats to the US ...
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Discovery co-production comes alive
Discovery Networks is co-producing Darlow Smithson's new survival docu-drama series Alive(working title) with Channel 4 and Granada International. The 10 x 60-minute series mixes interviews with people who have had near-death experiences and dramatic reconstructions of the events. Production is already underway and transmission is set ...
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Low, common and loving it
With genteel classics replaced by raucous entertainment shows, the American public is learning to love the populist face of British TV.
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BBC Broadcast sells for£166m
BBC Broadcast will be sold to an Australian consortium led by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) for£166m - a price underpinned by£500m of BBC contracts - once the government greenlights the deal next month.
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Molinare installs£150,000 Mac edit set-up for Tour
Molinare is helping Venner TV to bring Lance Armstrong's epic bid to win his seventh consecutive Tour de France to the public by installing a£150,000 purpose-built non-linear Apple edit set-up.