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FORMATS & DEALS - ANGLIA WINS 25-HOUR ANIMAL PLANET ORDER.
Granada's Anglia network factual team is to produce a 25 x 60-minute series for US broadcaster
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FORMATS & DEALS - LESLIE NIELSON TO VOICE CARTOON FOR TALENT.
Talent TV is to co-produce an animated series with Canadian producer Amberwood Entertainment. Zeroman features the
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FORMATS & DEALS - AUSTRIA'S ORF PICKS UP THREE UK DOCS.
Channel 4 International has sold three one-off documentaries to Austria's ORF. The broadcaster has picked up
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FORMATS & DEALS - EUROPEAN CHANNELS SNAP UP D-DAY DOC.
Factual distributor Electric Sky has secured a raft of sales to broadcasters across Europe for documentary
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LNN Factuals head leaves for indie.
London News Network (LNN) Factuals head Bob Whittaker has become the first ITV regional programme-maker to
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FORMAT FOCUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
Twelve couples work together to build a house, but only one of them will move in. It was a success in Germany but a UK version was delayed by difficulties in getting planning permission, writes Michael Rosser.
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COMMISSIONS - ITV ORDERS TWO SHOWS FROM SMG TV.
ITV controller of children's programming Steven Andrew has commissioned SMG TV Productions to make a comedy
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COMMISSIONS - IMAGO TO PRODUCE MALE MAKEOVER SHOW.
Norwich-based indie Imago Productions has been commissioned to produce a male makeover series for Discovery Health.
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US women's channel picks up Neighbours.
Fremantle Media's long-running Australian soap Neighbours, which airs on BBC1, is to launch in the US on women's cable network Oxygen, writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - DONE AND DUSTED TO FILM BRITNEY CONCERT.
Indie Done and Dusted has been commissioned by US channel Showtime to produce live coverage of
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NODDY'S MARKET LEAPS BY 95 MILLION.
Noddy owner Chorion has secured a deal with a Chinese academic publisher, which will take the
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GOVERNMENT WANTS END TO MEDIA 'SCRUMS'.
Broadcasters have been told by the government that they should call a halt to media scrums
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Five and PBS to make D-Day doc.
Windfall Films is to produce a£500,000 docu-drama for Five focusing on the ingenious machinery of
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COMMISSIONS - ZIG ZAG TO EXAMINE SPLIT PERSONALITY.
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned to make a one-hour documentary for Five about a woman
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INDIE KIDS RECRUITS GUARDIAN CARTOONIST.
Indie Kids, the production company set up by former Granada director of children's Dan Maddicott, has
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COMMISSIONER'S Q&A - Julian Bellamy.
Channel 4's head of factual entertainment is most proud of Brat Camp, which he calls 'engrossing' and 'fantastically watchable'. He is on the lookout for more daring ideas to fill the 23.00 slot.
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BBC to challenge wasteful youths.
Young people who rely on their parents to bankroll their lavish lifestyles will be challenged to change their ways in a BBC factual entertainment show, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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COMMISSIONS - ALASTAIR CAMPBELL TO FRONT FIVE SHOW.
Indie Liberty Bell has been commissioned by Five senior programme controller Chris Shaw to make a
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C4 raids talent showcase to create comedy series.
Channel 4 has plundered its talent showcase strand the Comedy Lab for the second time in a month by commissioning a 6 x 30-minute sitcom, based on the lives of four friends who work in a Glasgow curry house, writes Glen Mutel.
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MORNING TO RETURN.
Granada has received an early recommission from ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard for its This