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NewsRAI 2 renews local CD:UK version
Italian network RAI 2 has renewed its local version of Blaze Television format CD:UK for a further year. CD:Livewill continue to air at 2pm on Saturdays. A Croatian version of CD:UK is also being piloted ...
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Granada ships Hell's Kitchen to Asia
Granada International (GI) has sold the US version of Hell's Kitchen(pictured) across Asia . The 9 x 60-minute Gordon Ramsay show will be screened by The Asia Food Network, UBC Thailand, Orion Media Korea, Discovery India and Solar in the Philippines . GI has also ...
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UKTV Food tours Scotland's cuisine
UKTV Food has bought The Woman Who Ate Scotland, one of two series picked up by acquisitions executive Katie Keenan to air this year. Made by Tern Television, the 8 x 30-minute STV series follows food writer Nell Nelson as she explores her native Scotland ...
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Extreme Sports airs virtual World Cup
The Liberty Global-owned Extreme Sports Channel has joined up with Microsoft's Xbox to air coverage of a video gaming -competition described as the World Cup on console.
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Format Focus: How to get the guy
The producers of Queer Eye for the Straight Guyreturn with a new romantic reality series
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Endemol sells Spoons to Germany
Channel 4 sketch show Spoons has become the latest Endemol UK format to sell around the world.
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Quickfire wins Timewatch tsunami order
Bristol-based Quickfire Media has been commissioned to make a 60-minute film about the devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami which hit Crete in 1600BC for Timewatchon BBC2. The programme will look at new evidence about the scale of the eruption and 120-foot waves it produced. The ...
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UKTV history looks at wartime love lives
UKTV History has commissioned a series exploring the British pursuit of sex and love during the Second World War. Sex, Love and Warlooks at people who pushed aside convention and broke many of the taboos that existed in Britain in the 1940s. Made by Bristol-based ...
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Combat Club to return to Five
Five's Saturday morning kids strand, Shake!,has commissioned a second series of Combat Club, in which six children are trained in 13 different martial arts or combat disciplines. Selected for their sporting ability, the children are taught core combat sport moves ...
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Commissioner's Q & A
The UKTV commissioning executive (entertainment) has an eye for talent and wants shows that take its core UKTV Gold concept forward while for UKTV G2's younger audience, it's edgy comedy that appeals
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Five to air docu-soap about lemur families
Five and Animal Planet UK are following up the hit franchise Meerkat Manorwith a new animal soap opera exploring the lives of lemurs in Madagascar.
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BBC series to try out dream jobs
BBC presenter Adrian Chiles is to try his hand at dream jobs for a new daytime series for BBC1, being made by Cardiff-based indie Aspect Television.
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MTV hires Harvey
MTV Networks UK has hired John Harvey to the role of vice-president of production and development to create a long-term programming strategy across its nine-channel music portfolio. Harvey, the former creative director and co-director of Jam Creative, will lead the production team that serves all MTV's channel brands and commission ...
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Radio 1 rapped
BBC presenters have been warned that they will be disciplined and have their pay docked if they persistently swear on air. The new procedures emerged after broadcasting watchdog Ofcom investigated complaints about BBC Radio 1 breakfast presenter Chris Moyles.Presenters who swear - even by accident - will be disciplined, and ...
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Sky Sports 4 to air
BSkyB is considering the launch of a fifth sports channel, lodging the licence name Sky Sports 4 with Ofcom. The media regulator has awarded the licence for a cable and satellite channel so the offering will not be available on the digital terrestrial platform. Sky currently owns Sky Sports 1, ...
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Proms has Klass
Former CD:UKpresenter Myleene Klass has been hired by the BBC to add a touch of glamour to its classical music coverage, giving her a presenting role for BBC4's coverage of this year's Proms.
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Mr Bean comeback
Mr Beanis making a TV comeback ahead of the theatrical release of the new Bean IImovie, expected to be next year. Nickelodeon UK and Paramount Comedy Channel have picked up the rights to air the original ITV Mr Beanepisodes, marking ...
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Virgin hands Suggs 24-hour party station
Virgin Radio is turning its long-running Friday night show, Suggs' Party Classics, into a standalone station that will belt out retro tunes 24 hours a day.
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Bravo shows Army Everest bid
Bravo is to help promote the British Army to its viewers through an advertiser-funded series detailing one of the armed forces' toughest training exercises - reaching the summit of Everest.
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C4 bids against ITV for The Inventor
ITV is locked in a bidding war with Channel 4 for the rights to hit format The Inventor, created by Dragons' Denjudge Peter Jones.