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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 ...
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BBC nets Reef's Bargain Hunt gameshow
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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RatingsITV1 and BBC1 run close in '03
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
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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RatingsViewers open eyes to Shattered
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
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
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
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.