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  • Geordie Shore
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    Comedy Central hunts Geordie Shore-style shows

    2014-08-21T17:42:00Z

    Comedy Central is searching for its own Geordie Shore-style unscripted comedy to sit alongside its forthcoming batch of original scripted comedies. 

  • Mike Lombardo
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    HBO plots more Sky co-pros

    2014-08-21T17:37:00Z

    HBO is hunting for dramas which it can co-produce with Sky, as well as looking to order a family-friendly scripted series.

  • Jay Hunt
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    Channel 5 threat dismissed by Jay Hunt

    2014-08-21T17:33:00Z

    Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has dismissed the threat of Channel 5, claiming that she is “less worried” about the channel than at any other time in her role.

  • Bear Grylls
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    Discovery readies Shocking Love season

    2014-08-21T17:12:00Z

    Discovery is launching a season investigating rare medical conditions with a number of UK-originated documentaries and a new format from Bear Grylls. 

  • Jay Hunt
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    Jay Hunt reveals raft of C4 shows

    2014-08-21T14:07:00Z

    Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has revealed a slate of ambitious orders including a fixed rig show located in an African village and a political drama about Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.

  • North Korea
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    North Korean spy thriller prepped by C4 & Mammoth

    2014-08-21T14:01:00Z

    Channel 4 has stepped up its international co-production strategy, teaming up with Mammoth Screen on a ten-part political thriller exploring the closed world of North Korea.

  • African tribe
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    C4 and Renegade take fixed rig to Africa

    2014-08-21T14:01:00Z

    Renegade Pictures is to use a fixed rig to capture life in an Ethiopian tribe in a 4 x 60-minute series for Channel 4.

  • Nick Clegg
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    C4 greenlights Nick Clegg drama

    2014-08-21T14:00:00Z

    Nick Clegg’s rise to become deputy Prime Minister is to be turned into a Channel 4 political drama by Cuba Pictures.

  • Chewinggum Tracey
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    E4 orders Chewing Gum comedy series

    2014-08-21T14:00:00Z

    Retort has been commissioned to produce a comedy series for E4 about a God-fearing twenty-something woman dealing with growing up.

  • Cassian Harrison
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    BBC4 bags Belgian drama Cordon

    2014-08-21T13:48:00Z

    Belgian drama Cordon is to become BBC4’s latest foreign language drama acquisition as it builds on the success of The Killing and Borgen.

  • Danny Cohen
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    BBC2 orders first transgender comedy

    2014-08-21T11:25:00Z

    BBC2 is preparing to launch what it claims is Britain’s first transgender sitcom and has bagged Jack Whitehall’s Backchat, its second BBC3 comedy.

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    Cutting Edge editor offers remote editing course

    2014-08-21T09:27:00Z

    Secret Millionaire director and documentary editor Paddy Bird has launched a remote craft editing course for aspiring documentary, factual and entertainment TV editors.

  • Harry Hill
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    ITV brings back hypnotism and Harry Hill

    2014-08-21T07:26:00Z

    ITV is to mix the old with the new by resurrecting Stars In Their Eyes “with a twist” and ordering the first hypnotism format on British TV for several years.

  • Educating-the-East-End
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    Twofour shakes up team to start life as indie group

    2014-08-21T07:21:00Z

    Twofour Group has outlined the next phase of its restructure, including the creation of Twofour Wales and several key appointments and promotions.

  • Rashan-Stone
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    Shine urges industry to reveal diversity figures

    2014-08-21T07:19:00Z

    Shine Group chief executive Alex Mahon has called on broadcasters and producers to publish figures on the social make-up of their workforce in a bid to boost industry diversity.

  • W1A
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    TV a ruder place to work

    2014-08-21T07:11:00Z

    Television has become a ruder and more frustrating place to work for UK indies over the past 12 months, with commissioning standards at the BBC in particular going backwards.

  • All-star-mr-and-mrs
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    Entertainment shows fail diversity test

    2014-08-21T07:07:00Z

    The vast majority of primetime entertainment shows are failing to refl ect the diversity of the British population, according to the first findings of a major Broadcast-backed study.

  • Celebro-Media
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    London studio launches to meet growing TV demand

    2014-08-21T07:07:00Z

    Wesley Dodd, a former launch consultant for BBC Persian, has opened a 2,000 sq ft studio in central London.

  • 24-hours-to-go-broke
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    Watch hunts global talent in hybrid show

    2014-08-21T07:05:00Z

    24 Hours To Go Broke indie Renegade Pictures will hunt for the world’s best talent in a “part travelogue, part variety” hybrid format for UKTV’s Watch.

  • Secret-Life-of-Students
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    C4 eyes more ideas using Raw TV’s digital rig

    2014-08-21T07:05:00Z

    Channel 4 is developing further ideas with Raw TV in a bid to broaden its use of the indie’s digital rig, the smartphone monitoring technology that formed the backbone of university doc The Secret Life Of Students.