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BBC One today announces that The One Show is set to be extended.

After successfully trialling a 60-minute format of the show in May, the series, which usually runs at 30 minutes, will include an hour-long show every week from September to the end of the year.

The 60-minute shows will include a raft of new features, celebrating lives, landscapes and stories from all around the UK.

Kate Garraway spoke on GMTV this morning about the birth of her second child, William Garraway Draper.

BEN SHEPHARD: Good morning Kate.

KATE GARRAWAY: Good morning, how are you two?

Here come the girls... four princesses head for the UK in search of their Prince Charming, in The Undercover Princesses.

Following the highly successful series The Undercover Princes, BBC Three is once again throwing open the regal runway and welcoming four princesses from all over the world to come and live in the UK as commoners, and embark on a quest to find their one true love.

The four pampered princesses will swap crown jewels and courtiers for stilettos and sambuca as they leave their privileged homelands to move in to a house together somewhere in the UK and immerse themselves in the local social scene.

Television chef Keith Floyd has revealed he has cancer.

65-year-old Floyd has had five operations to treat his bowl cancer, which he was diagnosed with six weeks ago when doctors found a tumour. He is now having a five week course of chemotherapy.

Floyd has said: 'I went to Spain six weeks ago to see my old doctor about a little growth.

'He said: "Not very good news, I'm afraid, you've got bowel cancer."

'It's not what you want to hear. Since then I've had endless operations. Five knife ops in total and they were 90 per cent successful in cutting it out.

'Now I have five weeks of chemotherpay coming up.

Duncan Gray, Commissioning Editor, Entertainment, Sky1 HD, Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3, has commissioned indie Silver River (I’m Running Sainsbury’s, Supersizers Go) to produce 25 brand new hour long episodes of hit entertainment show OOPS TV. Following the success of the first series, Justin Lee Collins will once again be providing his voice talents, with his tongue firmly in cheek as we take an irreverent look at some of the funniest and most embarrassing moments caught on camera.

OOPS TV was a big success for Sky1, offering fresh new content in an early peak slot. The series performed well with an audience reach of 3.8m viewers.

Gray commented: “I loved watching Oops TV with my family and am delighted to be involved in the second series.”

Duncan Gray, Commissioning Editor, Entertainment, Sky1 HD, Sky1, Sky2 and Sky 3 has commissioned Shine TV and Princess Productions to co-produce JUST DANCE (8 x 60’), a new dance competition for broadcast on Sky1 HD in early 2010. This will be Shine TV and Princess Productions first co-production.

JUST DANCE will kick off with a series of nationwide auditions for dancers of all styles, shapes and sizes. Live audiences will be able to watch the auditions take place and join in professionally choreographed, mass participation routines called "Dancing in the Street." From the auditions, an expert panel will select dancers to take part in the spectacular studio dance extravaganzas, where they will hope to progress to the live final and be crowned series champions by the viewing public.

Sky1 HD have commissioned Uppercut Films to produce a 1x90 documentary chronicling the personal experiences of injured British service personnel as they embark on an epic journey to the Everest region of the Himalayas.

War Torn (working title) will feature some of Britain’s bravest heroes as they go through the rehabilitation process from frontline to Civvy Street. The 80-man Khumbu Challenge expedition is part of a five-year Royal Navy initiative to help rehabilitate injured Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel. Participants will span a range of abilities including double amputees and those emotionally traumatised in recent conflicts.

Stacey Dooley, who emerged as one of the stars of the hit BBC Three series, Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts, returns with a new two-part series exploring the issue of child labour in Nepal and the Ivory Coast.

Two years ago fashion fanatic Stacey Dooley's life took an unexpected turn when she travelled to India for the series Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts to live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry making clothes for the UK High Street.

In the cramped backstreet workshops of the Mumbai slums she came face to face with child labour, and what she saw there changed her life forever.

Moving On, BBC One Daytime's critically acclaimed drama, whose writers were mentored by BAFTA award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern (The Street), is set to return for a second series, it is announced today.

Liam Keelan, Controller of Daytime, has commissioned 10 new episodes of the original drama, doubling the run of the first series.

Executive produced by Jimmy McGovern and by LA Productions' Colin McKeown, Moving On comprises 10 stand-alone episodes all linked by the common theme of how to move on in life.

Suranne Jones (Unforgiven, Coronation Street) leads an impressive ensemble cast in Gwyneth Hughes' (Miss Austen Regrets, Cherished) gripping new drama serial Five Days, which returns to BBC One in 2010, it was announced today.

Kate Harwood, BBC Controller Drama Series & Serials, says: "Once again Gwyneth has delivered a tense emotional drama about a rich range of characters which will leave viewers desperate to find out what happens next in a complex story of mystery and moment."

A tiny newborn baby is abandoned in the toilets of a Yorkshire hospital. At the same time, the Trans-Pennine commuter train is halted by a suicidal jumper. Are they connected?

Five News is working with the charity ‘Missing People’ and will feature a different package every week of August, highlighting either a specific missing person’s case or the wider work of the police and the charity in their quest to reconnect families in the UK with their missing relatives.

In addition, each day of the week on Five News’ 5pm and 7pm bulletins a short photo appeal for a different missing person will feature on air at the end of each programme.

Vikki Cook, Deputy Editor of Five News said: “The latest high profile case of missing chef Claudia Lawrence again made us think about how devastating it must be to have a loved one, friend or colleague go missing and not get the answers you are desperate for.

Sky News has spoken exclusively to nurse Magdalen Makola about her ordeal last December, when illegal immigrant Justice Ngema conned his way into her home, threatened her with a knife and warned: “I’m a professional at this job and I kill people if I like” before dumping his victim into the boot of her own car.

Makola’s hands and legs were bound, tape was stuck over her eyes and mouth and a rope was placed around her neck.  Ngema then drove her car around Scotland as he emptied her bank account.

Justice Ngema, has been sentenced for abduction and assault after Makola was found dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia on Boxing Day last year.

ITV1 has unveiled its Autumn 2009 season of programming, featuring a broad range of original content with brand new first-run drama, contemporary authored factual series, the return of some of the UK’s biggest entertainment shows, as well as live football, including England’s crucial World Cup qualifiers.

Peter Fincham, Director of Television, Channels and Online, said:

"ITV1 has enormous pulling power, as was very powerfully demonstrated by the phenomenal success of Britain's Got Talent.  It is a channel that brings people together not only in front of their televisions but also online, connecting audiences that are otherwise splintered by the multitude of choice on offer.

ITV scoops rights to new series The Vampire Diaries and the fifth Harry Potter film in content deal with Warner Bros. International Television distribution

Agreement Encompasses Substantial Feature Film Commitment and the Trend-Setting US Series Gossip Girl

In the first post-LA Screenings acquisition of a new US television programme in the UK, ITV has secured the rights to the one-hour series The Vampire Diaries, as well as the blockbuster feature film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and a substantial number of additional theatrical motion pictures in a wide-ranging content deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.

ITV Studios Digital Productions today confirmed a ground-breaking commission by itv.com for exclusive digital content based around the UK’s favourite soap Coronation Street. Coronation Street’s website – www.itv.com/corrie – will host almost 100 minutes of premium new video content every month, featuring exclusive cast interviews, backstage footage and archive clips, in addition to episode summaries, sneak previews and character profiles, commissioned by Kate Bradshaw, Deputy MD & Head of Online Commissioning, ITV.

Every month the site attracts well over a million views of short-form video content and Digital Productions hope to further entice users with Corrie-specific mobile downloads and games later in the year.