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Guinness TV sells clip show to Czechs
Guinness World Records TV has sold the Ultimate Guinness World Records clip show to Czech Republic public service broadcaster Ceska Televize. The channel had previously acquired Guinness World Records: Primetime.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Siwan Jobbins
The commissioning editor, children's, at S4C has high regard for the yuck factor, Trevor Eve's crime-busting antics and C4's recent drama about David Blunkett's fall from grace.
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Daisybeck to profile former East 17 star
Leeds-based indie Daisybeck Productions has been commissioned to make an access-led documentary following former East 17 front man Brian Harvey. The show is the producer's first commission for BBC1's One Life strand and follows the singer's progress since emerging from intensive care following a near fatal car accident in May. ...
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Radio 4 and OU in natural history co-pro
The Open University is working with BBC Radio 4 on an 8 x 30-minute co-production on animal behaviour. The Rules of Life will see Professor Aubrey Manning travel across Europe, the US and Africa with the BBC's Natural History Unit, examining animals' drive for natural selection. The series, which airs ...
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Stars nominate favourite ITV shows
Joan Collins and Trevor McDonald are to reveal their love for The Avengers and Tommy Cooper's TV comedies for an ITV1 show being made by Talent TV. Must See TV gives celebrities the chance to sing the praises of their favourite ITV shows - comedian Julian Clary examines the success ...
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Century films makes More4 prison film
More 4 has ordered a 3 x 60-minute series from Feltham Sings indie Century Films, which will once again explore the British criminal justice system. Prison Monologues (working title) will see actors recreate the experiences of people involved - from victims and criminals to the police and barristers. The series, ...
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Endemol recruits for drama push
Endemol's international push into drama has taken another step forward with the poaching of Caroline Torrance from Granada International (GI).
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Boosh duo to pen sketch show for BBC3
BBC3 has followed up the success of hit comedy The Mighty Boosh with a sketch show penned by Boosh actors Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher.
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Celador radio arm secures BBC orders
Celador Productions' radio arm has won five new commissions from the BBC, for Radio 2 and Radio 4, including the first radio play from Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
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Tiger's Forman dies suddenly
Tiger Aspect director Charlie Forman, whose credits include BBC2's Country House and A Seaside Parish, has died in a motorcycle accident in Uganda, aged 31.
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C4 ditches Princess
Channel 4 has pulled the plug on a Liverpool Street Productions documentary following Princess Michael of Kent as she tries to sell her 17th-century home, Nether Lypiatt Manor. The broadcaster had concerns that the princess had negotiated with the production company to have full editorial control over the final product, ...
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Popworld expansion
Former ITV director of licensing Martin Lowde has been appointed as the chief executive of Popworld. Its four shareholders - Channel 4, UBC Media, Freedom Media and Simon Fuller - have tasked Lowde with developing the Popworld brand and driving commercial success around the world, both on and off air. ...
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Spain buys sitcoms
BBC Worldwide has sold a number of full series of classic comedies to a Spanish TV channel. TV Valencia has bought a 'Britcom package' from Worldwide, which gives it the right to the whole series of Blackadder, Bottom, Allo Allo and Yes Minister. The open-licence deal adds up to 45 ...
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C4 to air madge doc
Channel 4 and E4 have acquired exclusive UK broadcast rights to the new Madonna documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret. The Lucky Lou Production - created and executive produced by Madonna - chronicles the recent Re-Invention tour. It will premiere on C4 on Thursday 1 December at 9pm ...
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Unions threaten ITV with strike on pay
Unions have told ITV that they want an above-inflation pay rise for next year or they will start industrial action. The joint claim from Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Amicus comes after a number of ITV workers went on strike earlier this year, affecting shows such as Coronation ...
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Kavanagh stands in as BBC3 controller
BBC3 scheduler Damian Kavanagh is to take over as temporary controller of the channel while a replacement for outgoing controller Stuart Murphy is sought. Murphy will leave on Friday, 25 November, to join Wife Swap producer RDF Media as creative director. Kavanagh, head of planning and scheduling for the channel, ...
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Bay radio and TLRC celebrate FM wins
Ofcom made two FM licence awards this week, handing the 300,000-strong Swansea licence to local consortium Swansea Bay Radio, while the The Local Radio Company (TLRC) clinched its 30th FM radio licence with the 30,000-strong Northallerton franchise in North Yorkshire.
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World Cup spearheads BBC's HD push
The World Cup and high-end documentaries such as Planet Earth are set to lead the BBC's charge into high definition when it trials the technology next year. The corporation announced this week that it would broadcast peaktime HD programmes on BBC1 on cable and satellite from mid-2006. It has started ...
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Bakhurst favourite for head of News 24
Ten O'Clock News editor Kevin Bakhurst is being tipped as a candidate for the new job of controller of News 24, following a major shake-up by BBC head of TV news Peter Horrocks. Horrocks announced this week that he would replace the editorships of the 1pm and 6pm bulletins with ...
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Interview: Paul Jackson - The Jackson file
The man at the helm of a revitalised Granada USA, Paul Jackson, tells how he has pulled off a string of commissions, the latest of which is But Can They Sing?, in the highly competitive US market.