All Kids articles – Page 50
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Third Best of Friends on way to CBBC
Indie Talent TV has won a third commission for its CBBC entertainment show Best of Friends. The indie is to make 20 half-hour episodes, which tasks 10-year-olds to prove how much their friends mean to them by undertaking challenges. It was developed by Jonathan Wolfman from an original idea by ...
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BBC seeks third CBBC controller in six months
The BBC has been left with a headache as it searches for a new CBBC controller - its third in six months - following the defection of Alison Sharman to ITV.
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CBBC buys hipster & jack toon series
Create Media Ventures and 19 Entertainment have pre-sold their new 2D comedy music animation series Hipster & Jack to CBBC. The 30 x 14-minute co-production will be broadcast in 2007. The programme follows the adventures of a musical odd couple - a hippo and a Jack Russell terrier. Production on ...
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NewsRagdoll lands major CBBC order
12.30pm: Ragdoll, the creator of Teletubbies, has won an order to make a new 100-episode series for Children's BBC, aimed at children aged one to three.
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CBBC orders London bomb drama
Hat trick is to make a children's drama documentary about the 7 July London bombings - the first UK television drama to be made about the tragedy and the indie's first commission for CBBC.
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Yates to front Initial show for CBBC
Initial, part of Endemol UK, is working on a 10 x 56-minute series for CBBC, hosted by former Top of the Popspresenter Reggie Yates. Mighty Truck of Stuff, executive produced by Christopher Pilkington and David Hallam, will air live on Saturday afternoons ...
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NewsPratchett drama for CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel.
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NewsNickelodeon exec joins CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has poached Nickelodeon's interactive expert Joe Godwin to oversee her department's entertainment output.
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NewsSharman: CBBC must be at vanguard of technology
Alison Sharman, the new controller of Children's BBC has mapped out her vision for the department, pointing to the success of Apple's iPod music player as a potential model for the future of broadcasting.
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NewsSharman bids to boost CBBC interactive
Incoming controller of CBBC Alison Sharman will use her first speech in the role to put new media at the heart of the department's output.
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NewsEastEnders writer to head CBBC drama
Former EastEnderswriter Jon East has been appointed head of BBC children's drama, as part of a drive to put the genre at the heart of kids' programming.
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NewsGilchrist is CBBC's 'indie champion'
Children's BBC has appointed its first 'indie champion' to pull in more pitches from outside the BBC.
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Sperber to leave CBBC drama in July
CBBC's head of drama has announced she is to quit the corporation for a move to the independent sector, but has no new job lined up. Elaine Sperber - who commissioned award-winning series such as Fungus the Bogeymanand Microsoap- will leave her ...
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CBBC chief lined up as keynote speaker
New CBBC controller Alison Sharman is to give the keynote speech at this year's Showcomotion Children's Media Conference in Sheffield on 8 and 9 July. This year's event will focus on the pressures facing children's TV and will feature other speakers including CiTV controller Estelle Hughes, CBBC head of acquisitions ...
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Deverell takes operating reins at CBBC
The BBC's head of interactive news has been made chief operating officer of children's BBC. Richard Deverell currently runs BBC news' interactive and on-demand services including online news, but from 20 June will take up his new post under incoming CBBC controller Alison Sharman. He will be replaced at BBC ...
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NewsSharman lands CBBC role
BBC daytime controller Alison Sharman has landed the job of controller of CBBC.
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NewsCBBC chief takes role in BBC cuts
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior is quitting her post to take up a new role ensuring BBC production departments are not wasting money.
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NewsC4I bags CBBC show
Channel 4 International has picked up rights to a BBC kids series for its MipTV drama slate.
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CBEEBIES BOSS QUITS.
The editor of BBC pre-school channel CBeebies, Paul Shuttleworth, is to leave the corporation on 11
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Cbeebies boss quits
The editor of BBC pre-school channel CBeebies, Paul Shuttleworth, is to leave the corporation on 11 February to set up his own indie, London-based Handle and Spout. CBeebies is set to move to Manchester in five years.