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S4C Takes a second trip up the Aisle
Welsh channel S4C has commissioned a second run of wedding-themed format Y Briodas Fawr. It will again see six Welsh celebrities organise a real wedding and pitch in by baking the cake, taking the photos and playing the organ during the service. S4C commissioning ...
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422 makes Sky's Sci-fi Moments
422 Manchester has produced the opening titles for Sky One's Ultimate Sci-fi Top 10 Moments. Three programmes explore the greatest moments of science fiction in popular culture. Designer Gareth Price designed and produced the sequence, in which a camera flies through a futuristic database ...
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Cost of turning Ally Pally into media hub to be£50m plus
The planned renovation and development of Alexandra Palace into a media campus is likely to cost at least£50m and could be as much as£100m.
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Dalziel and Pascoe Gets another run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a further run of long-running detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. The series, which will air as four batches of 2 x 60-minute episodes from February, will again star Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan as the two detectives. It ...
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Shed sets up kids and factual arms
Footballers' Wives ' producer Shed Productions has set up a kids division after securing a commission for a seven-part thriller for CiTV.
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Rushes hires Aubry
Post production house Rushes has signed up French Flame and Inferno artist Philippe Aubry. Aubry most recently worked at Cinesite, where he was responsible for the Inferno shots on the feature films King Arthur and Harry Potter and the Prisoner ...
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Shameless picks up Prix Italia award
Shameless , Channel 4's comedy drama about a dysfunctional Manchester family, has been named best drama series at the Prix Italia Awards, while the BBC has won four awards.
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BBC team visit the Shoebox Zoo
BBC Post Production's 3D animation and digital team has designed CGI-animated characters for new CBBC series Shoebox Zoo. The show sees teenager Marnie discover ancient Celtic woodcarvings in an old shoebox. The creatures spring to life to enlist Marnie's help in finding a magical ...
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BBC promotion
The BBC has promoted Karen Smith, the executive producer of Strictly Come Dancing , to editor, format entertainment across all four BBC channels. She will also executive produce the second series of Strictly Come Dancing , as well as the ...
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GWR in licence bid
Classic FM owner GWR is to bid for a new FM licence covering Greater Manchester, with a rock format that champions new music. The Storm will give extensive airtime to unsigned bands and actively promote live music throughout the city if selected from a range of competitive bids by regulator ...
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Ofcom receives Edinburgh licence bids
Bids for Edinburgh's new FM licence, believed to be worth£15m in ad revenues a year, were submitted to Ofcom this week. Emap, which publishes Broadcast , is bidding as part of the Castle FM consortium, SMG has proposed Virgin Radio Classic Rock, Guardian Media Group ...
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Bravo ties up with Men's Health for series
Bravo has teamed up with magazine publisher Rodale to air a masthead series based on fitness title Men's Health.
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ITN Factual handed documentary brief
ITN Factual has been commissioned by A&E Network in the US to make six documentaries for the Biography Channel.
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Format Focus: How to Build Your Love
This dating and DIY hybrid follows 15 singles as they go all out to build a house and find love in the process, writes Michael Rosser
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UK indie gets Canada extreme-sports job
Indie and distributor Black Diamond Films has been commissioned to produce two extreme-sports series by Global Broadcasting in Canada. The cable broadcaster X-Treme Channel will air bike sports series Spoked and skating series Concrete and Chaos , Both series will be 65 x 30-minutes long.
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Lion to catch a thief format goes Dutch
Lion TV format To Catch a Thief is to be remade for Dutch audiences. The BBC1 daytime show, in which two ex-convicts burgle a house on camera to expose its security deficiencies, will be reworked by indie Palazzina TV Productions in the Netherlands. The show is believed to be set ...
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Final chapter for Hutton
Dyke's continued ire against the government may be justified but for the BBC there is no point in revisiting Hutton.
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Cicada and Dutch indie sign disaster deal
Factual specialist Cicada Films has inked a new co-production deal with Dutch indie Off the Fence for two disaster documentaries. Off the Fence will seek other partners for the documentaries and market the productions worldwide, starting at Mipcom. The Day the Earth Split in ...
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Cineflex mass sell to german networks
Five documentary series The Ultimates is among a raft of programming that has been sold to German networks by distributor Cineflix International. The 6 x 60-minute technology series has been taken by Kabel 1. Cineflix has also sold MayDay , ...
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Stars win Shine a clutch of orders
Shine has secured a raft of entertainment commissions, including a show for Five examining how ugly celebrities manage to pull beautiful people.