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NewsIn brief: Pact names vice chair; ITV2 re-orders sketch show
Hat Trick’s Paul Cohen lands Pact role, while Keith Lemon’s Kardashians are set to return
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NewsITV lines up Queen Victoria drama from Mammoth Screen
Former Silver River head Daisy Goodwin is to make her screenwriting debut with a Queen Victoria biopic for ITV.
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NewsBBC1 orders Sally Wainwright film on Brontë family
Bafta-winning Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright will write and direct a 1 x 120 minutes film about the Brontë sisters to air on BBC1 next year.
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NewsLA Screenings: C5 to bulk up 5USA & 5*
Channel 5 wants to supercharge digital channels 5USA and 5* with a raft of US drama acquisitions.
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NewsSimon Raikes quits C5 to expand Red Planet Pictures
Factual commissioning editor Simon Raikes is leaving Channel 5 to launch a non-scripted division at Tony Jordan’s Red Planet Pictures.
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NewsLA Screenings: Sky and HBO reveal first co-pro project
Jude Law is to front an eight-hour miniseries about a fictional, American-born pope for Sky Atlantic and HBO.
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NewsMaker Studios appoints head of international content
Disney-owned multichannel network (MCN) Maker Studios has hired Dubplate Drama creator Luke Hyams as head of international content.
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NewsC4 orders mental health series
Channel 4 has commissioned CB Films to make two-part series examining how people live with issues including pyromania, kleptomania and nymphomania.
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NewsLA Screenings: Showtime eyes international future
Showtime, the premium cable network responsible for Homeland, is looking to strike wide-ranging international output deals similar to HBO’s deal with Sky Atlantic.
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NewsBBC3 orders third series of Cuckoo
BBC3 controller Damian Kavanagh and comedy controller Shane Allen have ordered a third series of Greg Davies sitcom Cuckoo.
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NewsDNI orders Nepal earthquakes doc
Discovery Networks International has commissioned a fast turnaround doc on the two earthquakes that have hit Nepal in the last month.
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NewsThe Space Project welcomes Mount Pleasant
Sky 1’s Mount Pleasant will be based at the Space Project for the fifth outing of the comedy series.
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NewsC4 takes Million Pound Properties to full series
Channel 4 has commissioned RDF Television to make a 3 x 60-minutes series of Million Pound Properties off the back of a successful pilot earlier this year.
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NewsJuliette Howell to leave Working Title UK TV
Working Title Television UK’s Juliette Howell is leaving the NBC Universal joint venture once she has overseen it existing slate.
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NewsRR Media remasters Morph for YouTube
RR Media has completed the restoration of Aardman series The Amazing Adventures of Morph.
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NewsAll3M International lands four Sexy Beasts format deals
Lion TV’s quirky BBC3 dating show Sexy Beasts will be remade in China and three other territories after All3Media International sealed a raft of format deals.
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NewsSky, BBC and DVB honoured at DTG Awards
The DTG (Digital TV Group) recognised the work of Sky, BBC and DVB at its 20th anniversary celebrations that took place after the organisation’s annual summit earlier this week.
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NewsITV stands ground on pay demands
The pay dispute between ITV and the joint unions rumbled on at the company’s AGM yesterday, with its senior execs standing their ground on the issue.
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NewsITV orders school swap experiment
ITV has commissioned a 2 x 60-minutes series that will ask state and private school teachers and pupils to swap places.
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NewsTop Gear set for first post-Clarkson format deal
Top Gear is set to be remade in Italy after BBC Worldwide struck the show’s first international format deal since the fracas surrounding Jeremy Clarkson.