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ITV Studios shakes up entertainment team

ITV Studios has upped Tom McLennan to director of entertainment, North, handing him a new role covering the responsibilities of Sumi Connock, who is leaving the company. The content arm of UK broadcaster ITV has also hired Gail Harman from indie prodco Tuesday’s Child, and Martin Lau, who joins from Tellycopter, the NBCUniversal development unit […]

Discovery On the Edge with new adventure series

Discovery Networks has commissioned Sean Conway: On the Edge, a three-part doc following the titular athlete as he embarks on an ultra triathlon around the UK coastline. The show will be produced by Tuesday’s Child, the UK indie set up by former Shine TV managing director Karen Smith. It will go out on Discovery Channel […]

Fox orders two international formats

US network Fox has ordered US versions of UK-originated gameshow You’re Back in the Room, and is looking at a version of Australian drama series The Code (pictured). The US You’re Back in the Room will run to eight episodes on Fox, and go into production early next year. BBC Worldwide distributes the deal and […]

Runner to cross Britain for Discovery

An endurance runner with traverse the length of Britain in a 1x60mins doc for Discovery Channel. Sean Conway: Running Britain will see the titular athlete running nearly 1,000 miles, from John O’Groats in northern Scotland to Land’s End in the southwest of England. Conway failed in a previous attempt at the feat last year after […]

Scripps UK goes on Food & Wine Adventures

Scripps Networks UK & EMEA has commissioned an original series for Travel Channel and recomissioned another. Food & Wine Adventures, a 6x30mins series from Tuesday’s Child, follows presenter Jenny Powell and wine expert Olivier Magny on a road trip around Romania. Meanwhile, Jonathan Phang’s Gourmet Trains, which comes from Transparent Television, has claimed a second […]

News brief: Shine’s Princess completes senior restructure

Shine Group-owned UK producer Princess Productions has named Emma Hardy and Conor Baily as co-managing directors on a permanent basis. The pair have held the roles on an interim basis since former CEO Henrietta Conrad stepped back in December 2013. In further changes, Will Spokes, who was most recently creative director at indie Tuesday’s Child, […]

Channel 4 enters The Dog Show

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered a 15-episode competition series in which dogs and their owners tackle physical challenges. The Dog Show (WT) is being created by Tuesday’s Child, the prodco former Shine TV joint managing director Karen Smith (pictured) launched earlier this year. Tasks will include a “spectacular Dogstacle course” and the winning partnership […]

Ex-Shine TV MD producing Travel Channel series

A production company launched by Karen Smith, the ex-managing director of Shine TV, is producing a new 10x60mins factual series for Travel Channel in the UK. Smith’s Tuesday’s Child imprint is attached to RV Rampage, which will see five couples from around the world travel through New Zealand in an RV. Smith’s counts versions of […]