All Maverick Television articles – Page 5
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NewsMaverick set to pilot TV ideas on YouTube
Maverick Television is set to pilot up to 30 TV format ideas on YouTube next year following the promotion of Dan Jones to creative director of digital.
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NewsBectu leaflets indies in factual campaign
Media union Bectu is targeting employees working in factual TV by leafleting outside high-profile producers.
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NewsTwitter & C4 tie-up for Hotel GB
Channel 4 has forged a direct partnership with Twitter to boost activity around its forthcoming reality show Hotel GB.
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NewsC4 recruits celebs to cheerlead Hotel GB
Channel 4 is to recruit two celebrity social media cheerleaders to build engagement with its factual entertainment series Hotel GB.
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NewsMaverick tests superhumans for Discovery series
Maverick Television is to test humans with extraordinary abilities as part of a series for Discovery Networks International (DNI).
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NewsYouTube chooses content partners
Maverick Television, Fresh One Productions and Hat Trick Productions are understood to be among the indies selected to create the first batch of YouTube Original Channels in the UK.
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NewsC4 Education orders Fresh Meat spin-off
Channel 4 Education has ordered an online spin-off of comedy drama Fresh Meat to provide resources and guidance to teenagers leaving home for the first time.
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NewsMaverick receives first gameshow order from Hanoi
Maverick Television is aggressively expanding into gameshows and has secured its first format deal, selling a shiny floor quiz show to a Vietnamese broadcaster.
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NewsZodiak secures rights deal with Maverick
Zodiak Rights has secured a life-of-series distribution deal with Maverick Television for Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies and How To Look Good Naked alongside BBC3’s Bizarre ER.
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NewsLook Good Naked exec joins RDF TV West
RDF TV West has further expanded its team, hiring How To Look Good Naked’s executive producer.
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NewsEmbarrassing Bodies apps near 400,000 downloads in one week
The new trio of Embarrassing Bodies iPhone apps have been downloaded nearly 400,000 times since the start of the new series of Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic last week.
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NewsITV1 orders Guernsey hospital doc
Maverick Television is to continue to expand its health slate with an early evening ITV1 series based in a hospital in Guernsey.
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NewsMaverick swoops for ex-BBC factual boss
Maverick Television has drafted in Ben Gale to its senior UK management team and hired its first US boss as it gears up for growth.
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DNI sets out ambitious plans
Discovery Networks International has ordered 20 hours of content from indie Maverick Television, as Julian Bellamy outlined the broadcaster’s “step change in ambitions” at the Broadcast Business Breakfast.
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NewsC4 orders Gok's Teens web series
Channel 4 has ordered a raft of short-form web videos featuring celebrities including Alesha Dixon, Catherine Tate and members of the Hollyoaks cast to support its forthcoming series Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth
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NewsShine poaches Maverick exec
Shine TV has poached an Embarrassing Bodies exec to head up its new fact ent department, marking a second senior appointment in as many months.
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NewsAustralia acquires more TOWIE
Australia’s XYZ Networks has acquired the current series of The Only Way Is Essex as part of a 60-hour deal with All3Media International.
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NewsMaverick wins first CBBC series
Embarrassing Bodies producer Maverick TV has secured its first CBBC order for a series that aims to “do for health what Horrible Histories has done for history”.
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NewsC4 draws 4,000 to online food experiment
Channel 4 has seen 60,000 people visit its Food Hospital site in the week following the show’s broadcast, with 4,000 taking part in a series of online food science trials.
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NewsITV follows up Kosher doc and tackles unusual kids
ITV1 is to explore unusual behaviour in children for a new documentary series, and has turned Strictly Kosher – its film about a Jewish community in Manchester – into a two-part series.