All articles by Chris Curtis – Page 44
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FeaturesMediaCityUK: Assessing the benefit
Broadcast’s roundtable discusses the impact of the TV hub
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NewsHit orders Fireman Sam & Thomas specials
Hit Entertainment is to produce three DVD specials for Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam, and Mike the Knight and aims to sell the content to international broadcasters.
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NewsDCD hit by Bridezillas cancellation
DCD Media’s flagship Bridezillas series has been dropped by US cable channel WE TV after ten series.
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NewsABC lines up C4 No Angels revival
No Angels, World Productions’ C4 nurses drama, is being adapted by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television for ABC.
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NewsSky: tell us what you think
Sky is preparing to survey around 250 indies and 50 talent agents about their experience of working with the pay-TV broadcaster and has pledged to act on the results.
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NewsFrank has digital ambitions
David Frank is itching to get back to an entrepreneurial role after he steps down from Zodiak Media, and is eyeing up the emerging digital market.
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NewsC4 returns to Secret Eaters and Supersize vs Superskinny
Endemol’s Remarkable Television has won recommissions for Secret Eaters and Supersize vs Superskinny from Channel 4’s features department.
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NewsD'Halluin to succeed Frank at Zodiak
Zodiak Media has turned to global broadcasting exec Marc-Antoine d’Halluin to replace David Frank, who will step down as the super-indie’s chief executive on 15 October.
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NewsC4 to lift lid on how servants are hired
Channel 4 has ordered a series from Studio Lambert about how butlers, groundsmen and housekeepers are recruited through job ads in The Lady magazine.
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NewsLessons from Cambridge
Content creators were at the heart of the RTS Cambridge Convention, and despite all the talk of the power of the platforms, producers and talent must have left feeling reassured.
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NewsFether sets sights on bringing Raw’s US success to UK
Raw TV’s new chief executive Joely Fether plans to help the indie replicate its US success in the UK.
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NewsFether hired to run Raw TV
Raw TV has appointed former Zodiak Media UK boss Joely Fether to the newly created role of chief executive.
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NewsC4 to take stakes in fledgling indies
Channel 4 has revealed plans to take stakes in fledgling indies to help establish them in the industry.
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NewsPurnell warns against handing NAO increased power
James Purnell has warned that culture secretary Maria Miller’s proposal to ramp up the National Audit Office’s scrutiny of the BBC could impinge on the corporation’s independence.
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NewsDesmond: GroupM power hard to resist
Richard Desmond has told the RTS Cambridge convention that Channel 5 has little choice but to work with GroupM Entertainment on programming, given the power of its parent company WPP.
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NewsMiller backs BBC Trust - for now
Culture secretary Maria Miller has made it clear that the BBC Trust will not be scrapped or subjected to significant structural changes before Charter Renewal.
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NewsAll3M forges umbrella deal with Matt Lucas indie
All3Media has struck an umbrella deal with Matt Lucas’s production company John Stanley Productions.
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NewsDesmond calls for ‘level playing field’ with digital platforms
Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond has weighed into the retransmission fees debate and called on the government to ensure public sector broadcasters are protected from pressure from UK platforms such as Sky and US giants such as Amazon.
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NewsLondon Live hires commissioner
Livity head of content and former BBC Worldwide exec Derren Lawford is joining the commissioning team at local TV channel London Live.
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NewsBBC Trust is “broken” say MPs
MPs at today’s Public Accounts Committee hearing were repeatedly “astounded” that the BBC Trust did not ask former DG Mark Thompson more rigorous questions about the “eye-watering” £1.02m paid to his former deputy Mark Byford.