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    BBC commissions more accidents

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has recommissioned Accidents Can Happen , which looks at what happens after disasters strike people's homes. The 20 x 60-minute series, which will again be presented by former EastEnders actress Nadia Sawalha, will look ...

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    CS&W produces teen court for C4

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Scottish indie Caledonia Sterne and Wyld (CS&W) has won its first commission from its new London office with a Channel 4 show in which juveniles who have committed minor offences are tried and sentenced by fellow teenagers.

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    C4 set to co-pro new Aussie soap

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has teamed up with the maker of Australian soap Home and Away to co-produce a new teen soap.

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    Flora funds IWC to make C4 health show

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Indie IWC Media has entered the world of advertiser-funded programmes for the first time with a five-part series for Channel 4.

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    Next Faking It series to debut on T4

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a 3 x 60-minute series of Faking It , from RDF Media, which will debut on its youth strand T4 before being shown again in peaktime. The new shows, skewed to a slightly younger audience, were commissioned by head of T4 ...

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    BBC3 to stage live opera in railway station

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.

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    Kirby seeks£2bn of savings at BBC

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The man brought in by the BBC to help slash£2bn in costs over the next three years said he has identified four main areas where savings can be made.

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    An Oasis for BBC1's Fat Nation

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    OASIS TELEVISION has finished post-production on trails for the BBC's Fat Nation - The Big Challenge. The series focuses on one street in Birmingham and the attempts by its many residents to turn their lifestyles around over eight weeks. The challenge is to reduce ...

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    Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...

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    Crunch time for Sky One

    2004-08-26T07:50:30Z

    Sky One controller James Baker this week unveiled a new look and upmarket programme line-up in a bid to stem the channel's diminishing audience.

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    Five explores dark side of Richard & Judy

    2004-08-26T07:50:16Z

    Five is to reveal the 'darker side' of rival Channel 4's biggest stars with exposés of daytime stars Richard and Judy and TV chef Gordon Ramsay.

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    BBC's ballroom dancers poised to battle Bart

    2004-08-26T07:50:14Z

    The BBC is to pit a nightly spin-off of its popular Strictly Come Dancing series against The Simpsons when the animation transfers to Channel 4.

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    Watson uses drinking film to slate reality TV

    2004-08-26T07:50:12Z

    Veteran documentary-maker Paul Watson is to make his first film for the BBC in a decade with a landmark special on binge drinking which he will also use as a retort to reality television.

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    Anderson quits ITV

    2004-08-26T07:50:10Z

    ITV controller of current affairs, arts and religion Steve Anderson will leave the broadcaster next week after seven years, with no job to go to.

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    Olympic medal winners sign up for Superstars

    2004-08-26T07:50:08Z

    Fresh from bringing home a gold medal as part of Britain's coxless four, Olympic rower James Cracknell has been handed a new challenge - winning BBC1's Superstars.

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    E4 pits old comics against new

    2004-08-26T07:50:06Z

    Endemol UK will attempt to see whether old-time comic heroes are better than the new breed with its first commission out of its new Bristol Studios offshoot.

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    Distraction on route for US

    2004-08-26T07:50:04Z

    Channel 4 comedy gameshow Distraction is to be remade for US audiences complete with British host Jimmy Carr.

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    Keating boosts BBC2 docs

    2004-08-26T07:50:02Z

    Documentaries on BBC2 are to get a 'significant' boost following the agreement of a new strategy for the genre by controller Roly Keating.

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    Vaughan pens sitcom for MTV

    2004-08-26T07:50:00Z

    Johnny Vaughan has written a new sitcom about two small-time drug dealers that will mark MTV's first foray into comedy drama.

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    BBC4 to feature atheism series

    2004-08-25T15:19:41Z

    BBC4 unveiled an autumn schedule led by highbrow series on atheism and the power of light this morning (Wednesday).