Monkey Kingdom’s “Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum” starts this Sunday at 9pm on BBC Three. Go to Entertainment and Young Dumb and Living Off Mum Series 2 for more info

Monkey Kingdom’s “Sharon Osborne: A Comedy Roast” has been nominated for a Rose d’Or in the category of variety & live event show

The 50th Rose d’Or Festival will take place in autumn, from September 18-22, 2010.

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UK digital network BBC3 is to air another two-week Adult Season block of programmes exploring the pressures of growing up.

The network said a similar documentary-led block produced its highest-ever two weeks of ratings last summer.

Heading the 2010 season will be a four-film series called My Mum and Me, featuring celebrity personalities who explore their relationships with their mothers.

The first is called Tulisa: Crazy About Mum, which follows the relationship of British singer Tulisa, of urban group N-Dubz, and her mother, who suffered from schizo-affective disorder. Mentorn Media has been signed up to produce, with Hannah Wyatt executive producing.

The other programmes are Nine Lives Media’s Small Team Big World (working title), about a mother affected by dwafism; a BBC Vision show about former England soccer star Gary Lineker’s wife Danielle; and Firecracker’s Mum, Modelling and Me (wt), about tabloid newspaper pin-up Alicia Douvall. Samantha Anstiss is the series’ commissioning executive producer.

Also part of Adult Season are single docs The Blind Me, from Firecracker; Alice and Her Six Dads, from Raw TV; and Baby Beauty Queens, produced by Landmark Films.

Monkey Kingdom’s Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum (6×60′) and Mentorn Media’s Underage and Pregnant (8×30′) also return for new seasons.

BBC Three is celebrating after its Adult Season, a collection of programmes which explored what it means to become an adult in Britain today, brought the channel the best two weeks in its history amongst its target audience of 16-34 year olds.

In the first week of August, the channel’s share of young audiences was 5.3% and in the second week the share was 5.2%.

Overall the season, which followed the stories of teenagers at the frontline of becoming adults, reached 18.5 million people and 45% of 16-34 year olds.

The second episode of Underage And Pregnant, a six-part series which went behind the headlines to explore the realities of being a teenage mum, brought the channel its best pre-watershed performance ever with 0.9 million viewers (4.6% share, 10.7% of 16-34 year olds), making it the 11th most watched programme on the channel in 2009.

Young, Dumb And Living Off Mum, in which pampered teenagers competed against each other in challenges set by their parents also performed well, with viewing figures of 0.6 million (2.5% share, 5% of 16-34 year olds) and an AI of 80 amongst 16-34s.

Danny Cohen, Controller, BBC Three, said: “I’m delighted that the Adult Season went down so well with young viewers. It emphasises young people’s appetite for thought-provoking documentary, and gives us more good clues to what our audiences want us to explore with them.”

Other strong performances included Pregnancy: My Big Decision (0.8m viewers/3.4% share, 8.3% of 16-34s) and The Autistic Me (0.7m/3.4%, 5.5% - AI of 83).

The season website was also one of the strongest for the channel, peaking with 37,000 unique users, and the programmes also proved popular on BBC iPlayer, with four of the programmes from the season featuring in the iPlayer top 20 programmes during the weeks of transmission.

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Indie Monkey Kingdom has turned to ITV Global Entertainment to help expand its scripted portfolio into original dramas suitable for international sales.

ITV Global will help the producer - best known for entertainment programmes such as The Charlotte Church Show - to develop drama projects, piece together international finance deals and sell the programmes around the globe.

The deal will help ITV Global push into the scripted arena by giving it first-look rights to Monkey’s content. The indie’s new drama team will be headed by Catherine Oldfield, who has already optioned a novel from Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut with help from ITV.

Monkey managing director David Granger said: “While many bemoan the fact the scripted world is going through a difficult stage, to us it feels like the time’s right for a new creative and commercial approach.”

ITV Global Entertainment head of drama Noel Hedges added: “Monkey has the creative energy and skill to attract the most exciting established and emerging writers and talent.”

Our groundbreaking documentary on the life of Elton John, Me Myself and I has been nominated for a prestigious Focal Award in the category “Best Use of Footage In An Entertainment Production”.

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Congratulations to Charlotte Church!

At the recent Glamour Women of the Year Awards she was named TV Personality of the Year.

This is the second award Charlotte has scooped for her TV show, winning the British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer last year.

Here’s to more!

Congratulations to The Charlotte Church Show which has been nominated for a prestigious Bulldog Award in Televisual Magazines “Panel, Quiz and Chat Show” category.

Voting is taking place now so fingers crossed until the results