All International articles – Page 551

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    Fremantle strikes deal for Sally Head distribution

    23 April 2008

    Fremantle Media Enterprises has secured a three-year, first-look, development and distribution deal with Sally Head Productions, the indie behind BBC4's Fanny Hill.

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    Target sells Kudos shows as SRI takes on Plus One

    23 April 2008

    Kudos Film and Television's Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper have been sold to a raft of broadcasters by Target Entertainment, while Shine Reveille International has secured the international rights to the indie's new Channel 4 comedy Plus One.

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    Disney planning factual arm

    22 April 2008

    Disney has unveiled plans for a new subsidiary studio specialising in environmental and nature films.

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    CGS signs European broadcast deal

    22 April 2008

    Championship Gaming Series (CGS) has signed a European broadcast deal with Eurosport and BSkyB, making the professional video-gaming league available in more than 400 million homes worldwide.

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    KateModern to cross with LonelyGirl15

    21 April 2008

    Bebo's online drama KateModern is to crossover with the US format that inspired it, LonelyGirl15, over the next two weeks.

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    RTL and Saban eye BSkyB's ITV stake

    21 April 2008

    BSkyB has received expressions of interest in its controversial 17.9% stake in ITV from German broadcaster RTL and media mogul Haim Saban.

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    Comment

    Blog: Can ITV beat the ratings?

    18 April 2008

    Will Hurrell travelled to Germany to watch the filming of new ITV1 gameshow Beat the Star.

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    News

    Nuts takes US darts package

    18 April 2008

    Nuts TV will screen exclusive coverage of the 2008 PDC US Open on as part of a package of darts programming on the channel.

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    Alchemy plans£15m Hur

    16 April 2008

    London and LA-based drama distributor Alchemy Television is going into production on its first original mini-series, a£15m adaptation of the Biblical epic Ben Hur.

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    Dino drama sold to Italy

    16 April 2008

    Sci-fi thriller Primeval and BBC drama Life on Mars have been sold to Italian state broadcaster Rai Due by BBC Worldwide.

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    Wall to Wall cinema doc to run in UK

    16 April 2008

    Wall to Wall's first cinema documentary, Man on Wire, has secured a UK theatrical release through Icon Film Distribution.

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    Virgin 1 adds shows to Extraordinary season

    16 April 2008

    Virgin 1 will explore gigantism, the lives of conjoined twins and speed-eating as part of its flagship Extraordinary Humans strand.

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    Features

    Format Focus: Head of the Class

    16 April 2008

    Young contestants have just five minutes to graduate from school in a new kids format from Israel.

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    Tigress tackles big bang for the Science Channel

    16 April 2008

    A new documentary offering a radical new take on the big bang theory is being made by Tigress Productions for Discovery's Science Channel in the US.

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    UKTV picks up Wildlife Rescue

    11 April 2008

    BBC Worldwide has sold Australian indie Freehand's new factual series, Outback Wildlife Rescue, to UKTV.

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    BBC1's Mrs Pritchard off to Japan

    11 April 2008

    MIPTV: Target Entertainment has sold Kudos Film & Television's BBC1 drama series The Amazing Mrs Pritchard to NHK in Japan as part of a raft of deals

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    Norway to ask Am I Normal

    11 April 2008

    MIPTV: Avalon Distribution has sold Liberty Bell's new BBC2 series Am I Normal? to Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, ahead of its UK broadcast next week.

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    ITV to make global channels push

    11 April 2008

    MIPTV: ITV Worldwide is looking to establish a global channels business, under the leadership of new president and managing director Peter Iacono.

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    Ben Hur gets£15m remake

    11 April 2008

    MIPTV: London and LA-based drama distributor Alchemy Television is going into production on its first original mini-series, a£15m adaptation of the Biblical epic Ben Hur.

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    News

    RDF in first-look deal with Rival

    9 April 2008

    RDF Rights has struck two new first-look deals with London-based formats outfit Rival Media and US reality producer Asylum Entertainment.