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C4 orders eighth Scrapheap Challenge
Channel 4 has ordered another series of Scrapheap Challenge from RDF Media before the latest series, which airs this month, has even gone out. C4 head of science Simon Andreae has just commissioned series eight of the popular format, which will be broadcast next year. ...
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Inside soap awards will be a scream
Scream Films has been commissioned by Living TV to produce its coverage of the Inside Soap Awards. The 60-minute compendium of highlights will air at the end of the month, presented by Living TV regulars Richard Arnold, Alison Slade and Angela Buttolph. It is the ...
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Leopard launches distribution arm
Leopard Films is launching a distribution division at Mipcom in a bid to exploit the secondary rights to its slate of shows.
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Hotbed sells 100 Worst to South Africa
Birmingham-based production company Hotbed Media has licensed its 100 Worst Britons format to South African broadcaster MNET.
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Bullseye in entertainment push
Bullseye Television is pushing into factual entertainment and comedy.
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ABC1 unveils key shows for Freeview launch
Disney's new Freeview channel ABC1 will launch this month with two flagship dramas from US parent network ABC. Long-running soap General Hospital will be making its UK debut alongside relationship drama Once and Again (pictured). Produced by The Bedford Falls Company with Touchstone Television, Once and Again stars Sela Ward ...
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NewsRoberts makes epic Journey for BBC2
Coast presenter Dr Alice Roberts has landed another major BBC2 documentary series, this time tracing the five epic routes our earliest ancestors took across the world.
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BBC radio wins Welsh football fixtures
BBC Radio Wales will trace the country's bid for victory in World Cup 2006 as part of a four-year deal with the Football Association of Wales. The contract includes radio coverage of Wales' international home fixtures, which also includes the Euro 2008 tournament, as well as both the home and ...
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Fremantle to sell BBC's Fingersmith
Fingersmith , the BBC's forthcoming lesbian-themed drama from the author of Tipping the Velvet , is to be sold worldwide by Fremantle International Distribution. The 3 x 60-minute historical drama is based on Sarah Waters' third novel and is due to air on BBC1 in ...
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Glasgow indie lands German TV task
Glasgow-based indie Caledonia Sterne & Wyld has been hired by German public broadcaster ZDF to shoot a series of interviews for a strand on powerful couples. CS&W will spend the next three weeks filming in the UK and US for an episode being produced by ZDF about Prince Charles and ...
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BBC Prime to launch on French satellite
Entertainment channel BBC Prime is to boost its presence in France by launching on pay-TV platform Canalsatellite. It will begin broadcasting to Canalsatellite's 2.8 million subscribers this month, taking BBC Prime's total reach across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to 19 million. The schedule includes BBC staples such as ...
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Wall to Wall sells raft of shows to US
Wall to Wall has sold its 'mockumentary' Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon to the FX network in the US. Originally made for BBC2, cablecaster TLC and Granada International, the show is currently being reversioned for US transmission. Wall to Wall is also producing a ...
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Time for Dyke to move on
We all know Greg Dyke's side of the Hutton story by now so it's time for him to find a new role for himself.
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Edinburgh soundbites
'This year we've had sex and masturbation. Next year we'll have GBH and bestiality. Do not be surprised if one of the housemates next year is a pretty young sheep'
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Flashback buys Double Exposure
Flashback Television has acquired Bafta award-winning education specialist Double Exposure and inherited£2m worth of business.
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Park picked to spearhead C4 radio venture
Richard Park, the former Capital Radio programming chief, is to build a national digital radio station for Channel 4 which could include a weekly show from Richard and Judy.
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NewsTalkback makes Hole pilot for BBC1
Talkback Thames has made a UK pilot of “human Tetris” format Hole in the Wall for BBC1.
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Joey to lead Five comedy
Five is planning to use new US acquisition Joey costing£500,000 an episode - to launch a block of comedy programming, said its chief executive, Jane Lighting, at the Edinburgh Festival.
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NewsOfcom: UK needs new PSB system by 2011
Ofcom has called for a new public service broadcasting system to be rushed in by 2011 - three years before existing commercial PSB licences come to an end.
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Kemp on guns for Sky One doc
ITV's former star signing Ross Kemp has landed his first TV role since relinquishing his golden handcuffs deal with the network.