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Channel 5 orders Too Fat to Fly as part of Supersize season

UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 has ordered a one-off doc, Too Fat to Fly. The 1x60mins show will be made by UK indie Zig Zag Productions and chart the holiday horror stories experienced by obese holidaymakers, including people who have had to be cut out of theme park rides and winched out of waterslides while […]

Channel 5 begins Living on the Edge

UK terrestrial Channel 5 has commissioned a doc series from maverick filmmaker Chris Terrill that investigates why people live in the world’s most dangerous terrains. Living on the Edge (WT) will see Terrill travel alone to the Arctic to follow the migration of the Sami people, who are thought to be Europe’s oldest culture; and […]

Ofcom report: UK programming spend in decline

Total spend on programming across the five main UK public service broadcast channels, as well as the BBC’s digital channels, dropped 2% year-on-year in 2012, according to Ofcom stats. In its Public Service Broadcasting Annual Report 2013, the UK broadcast regulator said that the decrease in spend resulted in £2.9 billion (US$4.5 billion) going on […]

Shine scores Barcroft first-look deal

Shine International has secured a first-look deal with UK indie Barcroft Productions, the company behind Megafamilies and 600lb Mum: Race Against Time. The deal – described a “significant development and distribution” agreement – hands Shine Group’s sales arm first look at Barcroft shows in development, plus distribution of series including Pistorius Trial: The Key Questions, […]

Sky told to end PSB retransmission fees

The UK government plans to end controversial retransmission fees that British public broadcasters pay to News Corp-backed satellite TV platform BSkyB for carriage. A new report released the week by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport recommends the fees be stopped to bring the arrangement between Sky and the PSBs in line with “zero […]

BBC to examine YouView participation

The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has launched a review into the BBC’s involvement in broadband TV service YouView. The review will focus on topics such as whether the BBC’s involvement in the scheme has impacted on other public service broadcasters’ approaches to making their content available to other platforms, and the way in […]

Roku adds Channel 5, Toon Googles

Streaming set-top box firm Roku has added UK broadcaster Channel Five’s Demand 5 catch-up service and on-demand kids VOD service Toon Goggles to its line-up of content. Demand 5 will be available on Roku boxes in the UK from this week and will offer a range of catch-up content as well as a library of programmes […]

Rai Yoyo seasons schedule with more Peppa

Italian public children’s channel Rai Yoyo has acquired seasons five and six of Entertainment One-sold animated series Peppa Pig. The much-travelled kids series has scored well on the Rai channel, where it airs as Peppa. The new episodes will be aired in English, with only the opening credits in Italian, to help develop language skills […]

Channel 5 schedules UK Film School’s ‘sexting’ doc

Channel 5 will air its film school-produced ‘sexting’ documentary, Sexters, this Sunday. The one-off doc looks at the modern phenomenon of sending sexually explicit messages and photographs by mobile phone. It is produced by the UK’s National Film and TV School (NFTS) and marks the first time Channel 5 has commissioned it to make a […]

News brief: WotWots returning to Channel 5

UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 has ordered a second series of animated kids series The WotWots. The first series of the preschool show went out last year on the broadcaster’s Milkshake! kids strand and it will return for a second outing, starting in August. The series, which follows two siblings from outer space, SpottyWot and […]

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