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Stars win Shine a clutch of orders
Shine has secured a raft of entertainment commissions, including a show for Five examining how ugly celebrities manage to pull beautiful people.
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RDF series looks at historical crimes
RDF Media is developing a drama series about real-life murders from Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of country house whodunnit Gosford Park.
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C4 devotes season to Robbie Williams
Channel 4 has lined up a Robbie Williams season featuring an original documentary and a studio interview with the pop star. C4's editor for youth strand T4 and music, Neil McCallum, has commissioned an hour-long documentary entitled Robbie Williams: The Show Off Must Go On for primetime transmission in October. ...
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BBC1 orders second New Tricks series
Indie Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a second series of BBC1 crime drama New Tricks. The new run has been extended to 8 x 60-minute episodes following the success of the original 6 x 60-minutes series, which pulled in about 8 ...
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Sky Puts the reality slot on Limos
Sky One has commissioned a reality series following the lives of limousine drivers in the UK. Made by Landmark Films, the 6 x 6-minute Limo Fever will spotlight the owners of limousine companies and their clients. Series produced by Rod Parker and directed by Jon ...
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Shed sets up kids and factual arms
Footballers' Wives ' producer Shed Productions has set up a kids division after securing a commission for a seven-part thriller for CiTV.
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C4 extends celebrity Big Brother show
Celebrity Big Brother will be returning to Channel 4 for a third series early next year. After the success of Big Brother 5 this summer, its celebrity spin-off has been stretched from 10 days to two weeks and will feature eight celebrity housemates instead of ...
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Bravo ties up with Men's Health for series
Bravo has teamed up with magazine publisher Rodale to air a masthead series based on fitness title Men's Health.
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Dalziel and Pascoe Gets another run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a further run of long-running detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. The series, which will air as four batches of 2 x 60-minute episodes from February, will again star Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the two detectives. It ...
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S4C Takes a second trip up the Aisle
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned a second run of wedding-themed format Y Briodas Fawr. It will again see six Welsh celebrities organise a real wedding and pitch in by baking the cake, taking the photos and playing the organ during the service. S4C commissioning ...
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RatingsOlympics help cut ITV share
The BBC's coverage of the Olympics helped drive ITV1's audience down to its lowest monthly share on record in August.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Kim Peat
Five controller of daytime, arts and religion thinks Spitalfields in London is a great example of religion and art crossing over and has an idea in development that will help to make drawing sexy
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Green Inc nets RTE contract
Comedian Patrick Kielty's Belfast-based indie Green Inc has secured an order for 150 hours of programming from Irish state broadcaster RTE.
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Golf boosts Sky Sports 1 share
Sky Sports 1's coverage of the final day's play in the Ryder Cup helped it to a larger all-day share than either Channel 4 or Five in multichannel homes.
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US Deal for Granada
Granada International has sold the rights to ITN documentary The Forgotten Kingdom: Prince Harry in Lesotho, which features an exclusive interview with the prince, to ABC in the US. The distributor has also sold the programme to broadcasters in Belgium, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia and net ...
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BBC promotion
The BBC has promoted Karen Smith, the executive producer of Strictly Come Dancing , to editor, format entertainment across all four BBC channels. She will also executive produce the second series of Strictly Come Dancing , as well as the ...
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Kirkegaard move
Sean Kirkegaard, the former head of Fremantle Media format shop Ignition, has joined Australian indie Beyond Productions. He has been made vice-president, development, entertainment and reality and will be based in Sydney. He is also a consultant to Nation 217.
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Ulster TV on the up
Ulster Television has revealed that it expects to keep up double-digit growth ad sales for the rest of the year, following the release of its interim results. The broadcaster said that its TV ad revenues would increase by around 14% in the third quarter, well above the ITV network average ...
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Final chapter for Hutton
Dyke's continued ire against the government may be justified but for the BBC there is no point in revisiting Hutton.
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Ofcom team net£2.3m in salaries
Ofcom's senior team pocketed£2.3m in salaries and benefits over the past year, according to the regulator's annual report. Chief executive Stephen Carter was paid£370,769, while senior partners Kip Meek and Ed Richards received£300,057and£254,844 respectively.
