Television News

18th May 1996

EMERGENCY WARD 5!

As the launch of new UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 approaches, programme commissions are already underway. Excelsior Productions, fronted by Richard Bates and previously responsible for such successes as A Touch Of Frost and The Darling Buds of May, have secured a deal to re-make The Larkins and Emergency Ward 10. These two early ATV series still have a high name-profile and Richard Bates believes that The Larkins can be a new cost-effective sitcom.

The British Film Institute have also been approached to provide considerable access to the early years of Channel 4's own programming from the eighties, which Channel 5 hopes to repeat. They hold the master material on behalf of Channel 4, which has no formal programmes archive of its own.

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