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Format focus: How Normal Are You?
The world's first 'socio-tainment' format attempts to make statistics sexy to the average viewer.
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GI does brisk business in Scandinavia
Granada International has sold three shows to broadcasters in Scandinavia. The Claire Sweeney-hosted design show 60 Minute Makeover has been picked up by TV Norge in Norway, while the documentary My Skin Could Kill Me has been acquired by TV Danmark, TV Norge and Kanal 5 in Sweden. Swedish state ...
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T4 heads down under for Christmas
Channel 4 youth strand T4 is heading Down Under for Christmas. Steve Jones and Miquita Oliver will present a festive season of shows from Sydney Harbour as well as new year editions from the Great Barrier Reef. At It Productions executive producer Richard Cook will head a crew of 14 ...
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Brookman frontrunner for Five job
Contenders are lining up to become the new acquisitions chief at Five after Jay Kandola's departure to ITV last week. Current acquisitions deputy Vanessa Brookman, who moved with Kandola from Channel 4, is the frontrunner if she doesn't follow her boss to ITV. Three executives from digital channels - Sky ...
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Eastern Europe buys Records clip show
Guinness World Records TV (GWR TV) has sold 40 x 30-minute episodes of clip show Ultimate Guinness World Records to broadcasters Viasat3 in Hungary and DTV Viasat in Russia. The series has now been sold to more than 60 countries. Viasat has also bought 17 x 60-minute shows of Australia's ...
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Cilla to host new reality talent show
Cilla Black is returning to ITV1 as a judge on new reality talent show Soapstar Superstar, three years after quitting Blind Date. In the series airing next year, Black will comment on the voices, styling and confidence of famous soap names such as EastEnders' Michael Greco and Nicholas Bailey, as ...
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Cineflex gives Tibballs factual remit
Canadian production company Cineflix has signed up BBC executive producer David Tibballs to oversee the company's factual entertainment across the UK, Canada and the US. He will join the company as head of factual entertainment and will be charged with building the business and developing a strong creative team of ...
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Fuller settles X Factor dispute
Pop Idol's Simon Fuller and The X Factor creator Simon Cowell have settled their long-running copyright dispute out of court. Fuller dropped his£100m lawsuit against Cowell after becoming a partner in ITV hit The X Factor. At the same time, Cowell has signed a lucrative five-year agreement with Fox in ...
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Star to make Formula 1 series
Sex and the City creator Darren Star is making a series for the BBC set in the world of Formula 1 racing. Star will control the rights to the format and hopes that success in the UK will help sell the idea to America. Star will executive produce the so ...
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Digital Classics sells Jackson story
Digital Classics, the music and TV group chaired by Hallmark chief David Elstein, has finally sold The Michael Jackson Story to the A&E Network in the US. Originally made by Iambic, the group's production arm for ITV in 2003, Digital Classics had struggled to sell the documentary to the States ...
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Taking the temperature of drama
What is the state of British drama today? What is the role of soaps and the influence of American series?Broadcast brought together leading lights in UK drama, from both the commissioning and writing sides to debate the hot topics.
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Interview: Fru Hazlitt - The Virgin queen
Virgin Radio's new chief executive, Fru Hazlitt, is looking to build profits by committing to getting on Freeview, launching new stations and hiring Christian O'Connell to present at breakfast-time.
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The new mainstream?
As Little Britain rides high in the BBC1 ratings, Peter Keighron considers the future of 'alternative' comedy and what the shifting landscape means for broadcasters seeking channel-defining laughs.
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Profile: Philip Edgar-Jones - Behind-the-scenes risk-taker
He is lauded as the man behind the success of Big Brother, but Philip Edgar-Jones is a modest man who isn't about to let his new challenge go to his head.
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Comment: Jess Search - The funds are out there
Jess Search discusses the power of British documentary and how non-fiction film-makers are breaking into the funding coffers that are traditionally reserved for fiction.
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In My View: Dawn Airey - Supply and on-demand
The BBC's trail-blazing Man Stroke Woman downloads show broadcasters starting to respond to changing needs, says Dawn Airey.
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The BBC at your cervix
How come the BBC has cancelled something as brilliant and worthy as hospital malpractice drama Bodies?
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Netting the future post profits
The traditional role of the post-production house is coming under imminent threat from cost-cutting and in-house operations, so how are the facility houses planning to earn their keep in the future? Kate Large reports.
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Anything but bleak
The opinions of John Birt and Paul Abbott not withstanding, British drama is in rude health, argues Conor Dignam, Editor.
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NewsRDF Media to buy IWC in£12m deal
Wife Swap producer RDF Media is poised to buy IWC Media, the Scottish producer behind Location, Location, Location, for around£12m.