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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ are delighted to announce that See Hear has been recommissioned until March 2011, with 49 programmes in total being commissioned between January 2010 and March 2011, ensuring the continuation of one of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s longest running shows.

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See Hear's final December programme will however be the end of an era. It will be the last one to be produced in London, thus ending See Hear's 27 year association with the capital.

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From January 2010 onwards, production of the programme will be moving to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Birmingham, where many of ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Daytime programmes are currently made.

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In an email to staff, Nick Patten, head of studio in Birmingham, said the move was part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s commitment to moving 'flagship programmes to regional and national bases.'

'Our proximity to a number of high profile organisations for deaf people and for learning and promoting British Sign Language (BSL) makes us ideally placed to make See Hear.'

He also reassured staff at the Mailbox that See Hear would not impact the studio's ability to pitch for singles and non-returning formats as the commission was outside the inhouse guarantee.

Production on 49x30' episodes will begin immediately, crewed by - as in London - a combination of deaf and hearing staff.

The recommission will take the programme up to March 2011. The new run will be series produced by Ellena Stojanovic, and exec produced by Michael Armit, who joins the department on September 28.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ will be looking to recruit new Deaf and hearing staff to work on the new programme.

More details soon.