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Comedy Central hunts Geordie Shore-style shows
Comedy Central is searching for its own Geordie Shore-style unscripted comedy to sit alongside its forthcoming batch of original scripted comedies.
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HBO plots more Sky co-pros
HBO is hunting for dramas which it can co-produce with Sky, as well as looking to order a family-friendly scripted series.
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Channel 5 threat dismissed by Jay Hunt
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.
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Discovery readies Shocking Love season
Discovery is launching a season investigating rare medical conditions with a number of UK-originated documentaries and a new format from Bear Grylls.
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Jay Hunt reveals raft of C4 shows
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.
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North Korean spy thriller prepped by C4 & Mammoth
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.
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C4 and Renegade take fixed rig to Africa
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.
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C4 greenlights Nick Clegg drama
Nick Clegg’s rise to become deputy Prime Minister is to be turned into a Channel 4 political drama by Cuba Pictures.
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E4 orders Chewing Gum comedy series
Retort has been commissioned to produce a comedy series for E4 about a God-fearing twenty-something woman dealing with growing up.
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BBC4 bags Belgian drama Cordon
Belgian drama Cordon is to become BBC4’s latest foreign language drama acquisition as it builds on the success of The Killing and Borgen.
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BBC2 orders first transgender comedy
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
Secret Millionaire director and documentary editor Paddy Bird has launched a remote craft editing course for aspiring documentary, factual and entertainment TV editors.
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ITV brings back hypnotism and Harry Hill
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.
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Twofour shakes up team to start life as indie group
Twofour Group has outlined the next phase of its restructure, including the creation of Twofour Wales and several key appointments and promotions.
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Shine urges industry to reveal diversity figures
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.
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TV a ruder place to work
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.
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Entertainment shows fail diversity test
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.
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London studio launches to meet growing TV demand
Wesley Dodd, a former launch consultant for BBC Persian, has opened a 2,000 sq ft studio in central London.
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Watch hunts global talent in hybrid show
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.
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C4 eyes more ideas using Raw TV’s digital rig
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.