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    C4I chalks up That'll Teach 'Em deal

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    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 ...

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    BBC nets Reef's Bargain Hunt gameshow

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    Indie Reef Television has been commissioned by BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman to make a 5 x 60-minute series for BBC2 about buying antiques abroad . Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting , which will be presented by antiques dealer Chris Gower, will mix hunting ...

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    ITV1 and BBC1 run close in '03

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 has proved to be the nation's most watched channel for the third year running, but rival ITV1 claimed the lion's share of 2003's highest rating programmes.

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    World Idol finds best share in Norway

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    World Idol, 19TV's global talent show, proved to be a turkey for ITV1 this Christmas, but achieved some success in overseas markets.

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    Viewers open eyes to Shattered

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4's latest reality entertainment series Shattered got off to a respectable, if unspectacular, start.

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    BBC chart in offing as Coke deal pulled

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    The HBC could launch its own music chart before the end of the year if negotiations with the Official UK Charts Company (OCC) to axe sponsorship plugs for Coca-Cola collapse.

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    Mentorn hires science head

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    Mentorn is looking to broaden its factual offering with the appointment of former BBC Horizon producer Malcolm Clark as its first head of science.

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    BFM execs in venture

    2004-01-08T08:30:00Z

    Two directors of Birmingham-based indie BFM Productions have launched a production company, Your Slice of the Cake. Maggie Fogarty and David Jessel have teamed up with three local entrepreneurs on the venture, which is already developing a gameshow format from TV presenter Richard Bacon.