C5 sign heavyweight producer

Channel 5, recently rebranded as Five, has attracted one of the most respected producers in British TV - the man behind 'Cathy Come Home', the seminal 1960s TV play which shocked Britain out of complacency about homelessness.
Heavyweight drama producer Tony Garnett, who was also the driving force behind the BBC2 series 'This Life' and fly-on-the-wall-style drama series 'The Cops', is working on a CSI-style police series for Five.
The channel's director of programmes, Kevin Lygo, has been striving to shed the channel's reputation for cheap, tacky shows and late night soft porn since arriving from Channel 4 over a year ago, and attracting a programme-maker of Mr Garnett's calibre is a real coup.
As part of the station's rebranding their schedule is moving upmarket with mainstream stars such as Clive Anderson and two new shows produced by Chris Evans - one starring Gaby Roslin, the other fronted by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
Five's director of programmes, Corinne Hollingworth, said the show would focus on the work of a crack London-based crime-solving police unit.
The broadcaster has already enjoyed ratings success with US import CSI, about a similar police-team based in Las Vegas.
Ms Hollingworth declined to give many more details about the show, but said it would rely largely on little known actors - a regular feature of Mr Garnett's dramas such as 'This Life' and 'The Cops'.
She added the show was likely to feature a character similar to that in 'Cracker', the police forensic profiler played by Robbie Coltrane in the successful ITV drama of the early 1990s.
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