All International articles – Page 564

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    Disney UK head moves to Hong Kong

    15 January 2008

    Disney Channel UK is to get a new boss after managing director Rob Gilby was promoted to a senior role at the group's Asia-Pacific operation.

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    News

    The Office heads to Chile

    14 January 2008

    David Brent will become Chilean following the first deal to remake BBC series The Office in Latin America.

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    Longford cleans up at Golden Globes

    14 January 2008

    Channel 4 drama Longford won three major prizes at Hollywood's Golden Globe awards last night, including best mini-series or motion picture made for television.

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    Ascent wins contract with TF1

    11 January 2008

    Technology service provider, Ascent Media, has secured a multi-million pound contract with French broadcaster Television Francaise 1 (TF1).

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    French resistance

    11 January 2008

    France 24 has strongly criticised French president Nicolas Sarkozy for saying the broadcaster should ditch its English and Arabic services and stick to French.

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    News

    Ascent secures contract with TF1

    11 January 2008

    Technology service provider Ascent Media has secured a multi-million pound contract with French broadcaster Television Francaise 1 (TF1).

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    Weinstein Co strikes deal with US writers

    11 January 2008

    The Weinstein Co., the US film and TV company run by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached a deal to allow striking US writers to return to work for the studio.

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    Comment

    A window into Iraq

    11 January 2008

    Captain Lorna Ward details what life is like for a film crew in Iraq.

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    News

    Sky One ups UK spend after US strike

    9 January 2008

    Sky One is fast-tracking a number of home-grown UK projects and has freed up extra commissioning cash as a result of the ongoing US writers' strike.

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    ITV adds key international exec

    9 January 2008

    ITV has appointed Sony Pictures' Peter Iacono as the first president and managing director of ITV Worldwide.

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    News

    Sarkozy says 'non' to English-language news

    9 January 2008

    French president Nicolas Sarkozy has said the government will stop funding the English-language version of round-the-clock news channel France 24.

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    Comment

    Hot topic: US writers' strike

    8 January 2008

    Strike-hit buyers will want non-fiction at Natpe, says Mark Itkin.

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    Features

    Format Focus: The Successor

    8 January 2008

    Aspiring psychics have the chance of becoming a protégé of Uri Geller in a new show from Israel

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    US chatshow kings return

    8 January 2008

    American chatshow hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno have returned to air for the first time in two months despite the ongoing writers' strike, which shows no signs of being resolved.

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    4 Kids seals Dino deals

    8 January 2008

    US children's content distributor 4 Kids Entertainment has agreed a number of deals in the UK and Europe for its new animated series Dinosaur King.

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    Greece plans local version of Coupling

    8 January 2008

    Hartswood Films' hit BBC comedy series Coupling is to be remade in Greece.

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    Outrageous Wasters on way to US

    8 January 2008

    ID Distribution is taking Betty's Outrageous Wasters to the US.

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    News

    China orders a Takeaway

    8 January 2008

    China is to get its own version of Ant and Dec's popular ITV1 entertainment show Saturday Night Takeaway.

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    News Corp re-enters German TV market

    8 January 2008

    Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acquired a near 15 percent stake in Germany's largest pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere, for£214m.

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    Golden Globes show cancelled

    8 January 2008

    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has cancelled its full-length awards banquet and telecast on January 13 because of the writers' strike.