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BBC Scotland
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BBC orders true crime doc ‘Confessions Of A Teenager Fraudster’ from Two Rivers Media
BBC Factual and BBC Scotland in the UK have co-commissioned true crime docuseries Confessions Of…
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Tern re-teams with Darren McGarvey for BBC factual series ‘Mind The Gap’
BBC Scotland and BBC Factual have co-commissioned Darren McGarvey – Mind The Gap (working title),…
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BBC Scotland commissions Escobar assassination doc
BBC Scotland has commissioned a new feature-length documentary exploring the story of a Scottish mercenary…
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BBC Scotland spreads Christmas magic with North by NorthNorth commission
BBC Scotland has commissioned a one-off Christmas special from Edinburgh-based North By NorthNorth Media that follows…
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BBC Scotland orders ‘fish-out-of-water’ Oz vet series
BBC Scotland has commissioned a new obs-doc series from Australian factual prodco WildBear Entertainment, following…
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Deals round-up: ‘Masked Singer’ sells to Russia; AMC adds ‘War Of The Worlds’; Two Rivers lands Scottish order
The Masked Singer lands in Russia Russia’s NTV has picked up hit entertainment format The…
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Mediaset takes Magnify Media car-based gameshow into Italy
Mediaset in Italy has ordered a local remake of an automotive-focused gameshow that was first…
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BBC Scotland exec boards IWC to head factual
BBC Scotland’s Pauline Law has joined Banijay-owned IWC as head of factual. The exec most…
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Love Nature, Smithsonian, Arte team on ‘Stormborn’ series
Love Nature has partnered with Smithsonian Channel, France’s Arte and BBC Scotland on a blue-chip…
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Dragonfly, Optomen and IWC land BBC commissions
Dragonfly TV and Optomen are among the prodcos to have scored recent documentary commissions with…
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BBC hands commissions to Bandicoot, Naked Entertainment
BBC Scotland has commissioned two seasons of eight-part quiz show format Test Drive from Argonon-backed…
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BBC Scotland names new commissioning head
BBC Scotland has appointed Steve Carson as head of multi-platform commissioning. Carson will become responsible…
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BBC reveals new £20m Scottish channel
The BBC is to invest £19 million (US$23.6 million) in creating a new TV channel…
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BBC hires Scottish chief
Donalda MacKinnon has been appointed boss of the BBC’s Scottish operations. She is being upped…
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Discovery poaches Nat Geo’s Sayer
Discovery Networks International has poached factual production veteran Ed Sayer to join Phil Craig’s new…
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CBeebies goes to The Farm
UK preschool channel CBeebies has commissioned a five-part series about farming featuring former boyband star…
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BBC in Israeli drama remake first
UK pubcaster BBC One is working on an adaptation of Israeli scripted format The A…
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BBC names London drama boss, poaches ITV exec
Christopher Aird has been named as head of drama, London for the UK pubcaster the…
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Eddie Izzard to star in BBC science drama
Actor and stand-up Eddie Izzard will star in a science-themed, fact-based drama for UK terrestrial…
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DCD targets Scottish drive with Objective exec hire
UK indie DCD Media has hired Location, Location, Location creator Paul Murray from Objective Scotland….
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MIPTV Hot Pick: Islands on the Edge
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has identified blue chip natural history as an area it wants…
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BBC crisis claims more scalps as Patten begins search for new DG
Following the resignation of BBC director-general George Entwistle on Saturday, head of news Helen Boaden…