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ORTV REPLACES MD.
ORTV managing director Lynne Osborne is taking early retirement in the new year. Her replacement, director
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Format Focus: Kenny VS Spenny.
A youth-orientated format combining the gross-out appeal of Jackass with elements of reality TV is riding high in Canada and gearing up for global domination, writes Michael Rosser.
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Via Digital's Queer coup.
Indie Via Digital has won a lucrative commission to produce US 'pink' dating show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for Living TV, writes Michael Rosser.
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Commissions - ITV's The Vault returns for third series.
ITV has recommissioned Carlton gameshow The Vault after it recovered from a shaky start as a
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Commissions - Granada takes a look at extreme dieters.
Discovery Health channel director Clare Laycock has commissioned Granada to make a show about extreme dieting
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Commissions - Discovery orders model town from Oval.
Discovery Home & Leisure channel director Paul Welling has commissioned indie Oval to make a 15
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Commissioning - TWI shows struggles of 'Superman'.
Former Superman star Christopher Reeve's continuing struggle to walk again is to be chronicled in a
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Tinopolis wins pot of EU cash.
Welsh Indie Tinopolis has been granted a subsidy of over£125,000 from the European Union to
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Commissions - Sixth sense to test kids' business sense.
A reality show testing the business acumen of a group of schoolchildren has been commissioned by
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Bird to become Disney president.
Andy Bird, former president of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) International, has resurfaced as president of rival
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Commissioning - BBC creates two factual strands.
The BBC's documentary and contemporary factual department has created two factual brands for BBC2 and BBC3.BBC2's
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Commissioning - BBC to look at kids in care.
The BBC is launching a season of programmes about children in care.The season - to air
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Commissioning - Five orders Batman's life story.
Five has commissioned three one-off documentaries on subjects including the history of comic book hero Batman and the life of porn king Larry Flynt, writes Michael Rosser.
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Tom Archer.
The BBC's acting commissioner for documentaries and contemporary factual reveals what we've got to look forward to at Christmas and gives the lowdown on how Wife Swap and Jamie's Kitchen have changed TV.
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Formats & Deals - Electric Sky and ABC team up on Iraq doc.
UK-based distributor Electric Sky and ABC Australia have secured a deal with a documentary maker to
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C4 WINS MANDELA GIG.
Channel 4 has picked up the terrestrial rights to the gala Aids and HIV awareness pop
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Commissions - Miners strike drama to air on Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4 is set to dramatise the 1984 miners strike battle between Margaret Thatcher and
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Formats & Deals - 3DD sells Robbie at Knebworth to Europe.
3DD Entertainment has secured deals in over a dozen territories across Europe for its Robbie Williams:
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RDF wins more orders from ITV.
RDF Media has tightened its grip on ITV1 with a batch of commissions including a six-part factual entertainment show and a one-off documentary, writes Paul Revoir.