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Men & Motors brings bikers to Cannes
LA-based Men & Motors International will launch four new titles at Mipcom including a series on World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss.
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Format focus: Sing Like a Superstar
The creators of Popstars are back with a format sure to add spice to the battle of the talent shows.
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NewsCosgrove Hall takes development slate to Mipcom
Creating and owning original properties is a key priority for Manchester-based animation studio Cosgrove Hall, according to its new MD Anthony Utley, who is going to Mipcom with three new shows in development.
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NewsRubber Duck to develop Bzots
Rubber Duck Entertainment, the newly created intellectual property arm of The Contender Entertainment Group, has teamed up with Chicago's Eat Your Lunch to develop a CGI/live-action series based on the US company's Bzotsproperty.
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NewsNick promotes Borkent
Jules Borkent has been promoted to VP, programming at Nickelodeon International.
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NewsCPLG picks up Dragon Booster
Licensing and merchandising agent CPLG has picked up UK rights to the animated series Dragon Booster, from Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications.
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Southern Star buys into Darrall Macqueen
Australian producer-distributor Southern Star has bought a 75% stake in indie Darrall Macqueen, the producer of BBC2's Smileand interactive children's programming, such as ITV's Play the Game.
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NewsFire destroys Aardman Animation's archive
Thirty years of Aardman Animation's history was destroyed early this morning when fire swept through a warehouse in Bristol being used by the company behind Wallace and Gromit.
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NewsMidsomer Murders picks up 7.8m
Another new episode of Midsomer Murderspulled in a healthy 7.8 million (34%) on Sunday night, outrunning strong competition from Waking the Deadon BBC1 in the same slot.
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NewsFrost 'checked' al-Jazeera out for terrorist links
Sir David Frost has told Broadcastthat he checked out al-Jazeera with senior figures in the UK and US governments to ensure it had no links with terrorist organisation al-Qaida before accepting a job with the Arab news channel's new European service.
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NewsEngland qualify with 10.3m
England's 1-0 victory against Austria which put them through to the World Cup gave BBC1 a heafty peak audience of 10.3 million (57.1%) at 5.30pm.
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NewsITV & C4 to join Freeview consortium
ITV and Channel 4 are set to become members of the consortium that owns Freeview, joining existing stakeholders BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle.
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Ratings - Ratings winners return for autumn showdown.
14.05 Five 19 28 Dispatches Thu 21.00 2.34 10.46
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NewsSky offers Robbie Williams in high-def
BSkyB is ramping up its marketing campaign ahead of the launch of its high-definition service by taking part in an exclusive screening of a Robbie Williams concert.
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NewsBirt gets second term from Blair
Former BBC director general Lord Birt has been retained as Tony Blair's strategy adviser.
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NewsParthenon bulk up on HD shows
Factual producer and distributor Parthenon Entertainment has added four high definition specials to its slate.
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NewsPEER POLL: Simon Shaps
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Simon Shaps good news for ITV?
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Mark Thompson's letter in full
'I don't normally write to you about inaccurate stories about the BBC in the press - if I did that, the emails would never cease! But there are reports today in The Daily Telegraph, The Timesand The Daily Mailfollowing up on ...
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Half of BBC docs execs to be culled
The BBC's documentaries and contemporary factual (D&CF) department is to lose up to half of its executive producers as a result of director general Mark Thompson's drive to cut more than 420 posts in the factual division.
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Nagra joins Maverick as exec producer
Former BBC head of Asian programmes Tommy Nagra is to join Birmingham-based indie Maverick as an executive producer for specialist factual programmes.