All Hat Trick Productions articles – Page 13
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NewsC4 launches Father Ted app
Channel 4 is launching a Father Ted iPhone app that will allow users to upload an image of themselves and morph it to look like Father Jack.
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NewsWorst Week remade in France/Italy
BBC1 comedy The Worst Week of My Life is being remade for audiences in France and Italy.
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NewsHat Trick takes James May global
Top Gear’s James May is to increase his global footprint as sales of his Toy Stories and Man Lab series have stretched to more than 120 countries.
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NewsEpisodes sold to 186 countries
Episodes, the BBC2 comedy starring Matt Leblanc, has been acquired by broadcasters around the world.
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Hat Trick joins mission to find comedy talent
Hat Trick Productions has won a second series of ITV1 daytime show Dinner Date and is to partner with Every 1’s A Critic for the 2011 Sitcom Mission to find new writers, actors and directors trying to enter the comedy world.
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NewsC4 themed nights honour Father Ted and Peep Show
Channel 4 will air themed nights celebrating Peep Show and Father Ted over the Christmas period.
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NewsITV boosts police line-up with crime novel drama
ITV is to bolster its slate of new detectives by turning Sophie Hannah’s crime novel The Point Of Rescue into a two-part drama, featuring a male and female investigative double act.
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NewsIndies pilot Old Harry’s Game for Sky
Hat Trick and Waddell Media have teamed up to develop an animated version of long-running Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry’s Game for Sky 1.
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NewsMulville: ITV bosses should give talent space
EDINBURGH: Hat Trick boss Jimmy Mulville has questioned whether new ITV chiefs Adam Crozier and Archie Norman can turnaround the fortunes of the commercial broadcaster, warning that they’re “not simply dealing with tins of beans”.
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NewsHat Trick adapts Victorian crime story for ITV
Paddy Considine is to star in an ITV adaptation of award-winning period crime book The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher.
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CommentThe truth is there are no certainties in this industry
As the fate of Thames shows, the future of TV is impossible to predict, says Jimmy Mulville.
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NewsFunny Or Die cuts UK ties
Funny or Die UK, the comedy website backed by Hat Trick Productions, is to close after 18 months.
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NewsITV1 spices up daytime with cookery shows
ITV1 is to serve up a trio of cookery shows to bolster its daytime schedule.
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NewsThe Bubble set for two more territories
Israeli panel show format The Bubble, which began its UK run last week, is to be remade in Sweden and the Netherlands.
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NewsNew Pact chair Manners braced for tough talks
Debbie Manners is to take over as chair of Pact - and is bracing herself for a year dominated by negotiations over digital terms of trade and pressure on indies as commissioning lags set in.
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NewsMulville hails new chapter for Hat Trick
Hat Trick managing director Jimmy Mulville has heralded the start of a new era for the “unencumbered” indie as it returns to full shareholder ownership following a three-year battle over its financing.
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NewsHat Trick completes MBO
Hat Trick has wrestled back full ownership of the company after buying back the 45% stake held by finance group August Equity for the past six years.
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GameLab scores Bafta hat trick
The indie behind the BBC learning disability web drama Us5 has scored a hat trick of nominations for the 2009 British Academy Children’s Awards.
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NewsHat Trick brings Israeli panel format to BBC2
MIPCOM: Hat Trick Productions is adapting Israeli news panel show format The Bubble for BBC2.
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NewsHat Trick to produce US TV satire for BBC2
Hat Trick Productions is making a BBC2 sitcom starring Friends actor Matt LeBlanc that satirises the trend for US remakes of British comedy shows.