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Quickfire shoots Moore drama doc
Quickfire Media is to make a BBC2 drama-documentary about the life of World Cup-winning England captain Bobby Moore in the build-up to the historic 1966 tournament. The programme, working titled Bobby Moore, has been commissioned by Adam Kemp and will be executive produced by Mark Fielder.
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UKTV launches sports series
UKTV is making its first foray into sports with a 10-part weekly series from TWI, designed to encourage people to participate in sport. The 90-minute show, UKTV Sport, will include coverage of nine events such as badminton as well as information on upcoming sporting events. BBC presenter John Inverdale, Olympic ...
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Frost moves into Coronation Street
Granada has confirmed the appointment of Steve Frost as the next Coronation Streetproducer, replacing Tony Wood, who steps down at the end of the year. Frost, who has also produced fellow ITV soap Emmerdale, was most recently producer on ...
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Yoomedia develops Baywatch game
Baywatchand Blockbustersare being made into interactive TV games on the YooPlay games portal. Telewest and NTL have approved the games, developed by YooMedia under licence from Fremantle Media. All UK digital cable subscribers can play the new games, which allow players to win prizes, on a ...
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Distributors report confidence
Almost 74% of respondents to Broadcast's first survey of the distribution sector believe business has improved as a result of the new terms of trade. Of the companies that responded, 92.3% ended their financial year feeling more confident about the sector than a year ago.
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Invasion of the audience snatchers
The RTS Cambridge Convention is known for its scare stories about the future of television - but this year the message is that the future is here, and digital has won. What does that mean for the industry?
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NewsPreparing to make a splash
As Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis make the leap into the indie sector, how will the doyennes of BBC entertainment take to their new roles as sellers?
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Mischief maker
From Shoot to Killto The Government Inspector, king of the docu-drama Peter Kosminsky has made a career of rattling those in power - and the Daily Mailcould be next in his sights.
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Are you sure, Tessa?
With the Border region lined up to be the first to go digital, doubts remain over whether the government and broadcasters have adequately prepared for, and funded, the upheaval of switchover, writes Jenny Smith.
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The BBC's next techno-revolution
Every year the BBC spends£60m on new media and, of the£355m annual savings director general Mark Thompson hopes to make, almost two-thirds will be channelled into new media. We took four emerging technologies at the heart of the BBC's new media strategy and asked a panel of commentators to assess ...
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The BBC's full-on future
John Willis believes that putting new technology at the top of the agenda will have creative and financial benefits for programme-making at the BBC's factual and learning department.
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ITV's virtuous circle
Those who put the boot into ITV are kidding themselves that there was ever a golden age. ITV is as good as ever, insists Nigel Pickard.
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Turkeys for Christmas?
Do the broadcasters know what they're letting themselves in for when they give the thumbs-up to digital switchover?
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NewsJowell pledges digital TV for all
Tessa Jowell will tonight (Thursday) fire the starting gun for a fully digital Britain by confirming the 2008 to 2012 analogue TV switch-off target and pledging to give 'the disabled pensioner... the same access to digital as the City broker'.
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NewsBBC angers music staff
The BBC has angered staff in its radio and music division with plans to merge three roles into one as it attempts to slash 150 posts in the department.
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NewsAllen calls on Ofcom to scrap CRR ad deal
ITV chief executive Charles Allen has called on Ofcom to scrap the measures introduced to protect advertisers' interests following the merger of Carlton and Granada.
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NewsBBC2 to capture patient's dying moment on TV
BBC2 is to screen a real death as part of a controversial Endemol UK documentary investigating end-of-life care in Britain.
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NewsHammond wins ITV1 daytime slot
ITV1 plans to turn Top Gearpresenter Richard Hammond into a daytime TV star with its new teatime factual entertainment show.
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BBC moves key commissioners
The BBC is moving key commissioners in with channel controllers and giving them a dedicated rights negotiation team, as part of plans to create an ITV-style network centre.