Sentence examples for commission a programme from inspiring English sources

"The BBC was clever enough and bold enough and actually sweet-natured enough to commission a programme about cakes, and then it grew into a phenomenon," said Yentob.

And, as nobody at BBC2 had the foresight to commission a programme entitled The Great British Frilly Bunting Bonanza to ease the middle-classes through this treacherous scheduling gap, all hopes have fallen on The Big Allotment Challenge.

There was a need expressed to gain local evidence of outcomes in the longer term: "why would we commission a programme that showed three or six month outcomes or even, why would we commission a programme that showed twelve month outcomes?

They realised they hadn't commissioned a programme about The Past for 24 hours and took it from there.

"Every time [the BBC] commissions a programme it should be saying 'why are we doing this'?" he said.

The collector Anthony D'Offay commissioned a programme of Clark's work to stage in his gallery in 1989, while, in 2006, Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst donated works to help fund the revival of his company.

The outstanding and unpredictable Russian ballerina has commissioned a programme of new contemporary dance from three, very different choreographers: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Arthur Pita (with whom she collaborated on her previous programme, Solo for Two), and Russell Maliphant, who creates a duet for Osipova and her new on- and off-stage partner, Sergei Polunin.

And homework may help avoid following in the footsteps of one famous TV executive who turned up triumphantly in full wedding regalia only to be informed that she shouldn't waste time pitching a wedding idea - the channel had commissioned a programme on that theme the day before.

The commission uses a programme called Systran, which it has adapted to translate various combinations of English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek.Acceptance of English, French and German as the commission's working languages obviates the need to translate every scrap of paper into all 11 official languages.

After the accidental death of a protester during the Sex Olympics gets a massive audience response, the Co-ordinator Ugo Priest (Leonard Rossiter) decides to commission a new programme.

The response from the DOHC in Ireland was to commission a transplant programme at the MMUH, Dublin.