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Five helps viewers get dream job
Five is looking to help people to secure their dream job with a new series created by indies Maverick Television and Shine.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Jon Plowman
The BBC's head of comedy entertainment is looking for half-hour comedies which chime with the real world and have real characters
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Living TV orders two paranormal shows
Living TV is beefing up its paranormal output with two primetime orders.
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First timewatch order for Testimony
Testimony Films has been given its first commission for the BBC's Timewatchstrand. Children of the Doomed Voyagetells the story of the evacuee ship SS Benares, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1940. The 50-minute documentary uses archive footage and interviews ...
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Five to show its bottle for kids
Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson has commissioned Bottle Top Bill, an animated kids series for its morning children's strand, Milkshake. Produced by Southern Star, the 26 x 11-minute series follows Bottle Top Bill and his horse, Corky. The pair use ...
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Discovery to air businesswoman show
Discovery Home & Health vice-president and channel controller Clare Laycock has commissioned Tern Television to make an observational documentary looking at women entrepreneurs as they prepare to launch their businesses. Ladies That Launchis 15 x 30-minute series set to air later this year. The executive producers ...
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ITV1 launches on-demand repeats
ITV1 has made its first move into the on-demand market with the launch of a repeats service on HomeChoice.
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C4 signs up ABC's What About Brian
Channel 4 has bought another high-profile US sitcom, taking exclusive UK rights to ABC's What About Brian.
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RDFR in first-look deal with Firecracker
RDF Rights has signed a two-year first-look deal with indie Firecracker Films. RDFR has picked up all international rights to Firecracker's output, which includes Five documentary World's Strongest Boyand Channel 4's Real Attack of the 50ft Woman. This deal follows earlier first-look ...
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Banned pope cartoon gets DVD release
Popetown, the controversial cartoon series which was dropped by the BBC before it even aired, is to finally be released to viewers in the UK as a DVD. Revolver Entertainment has announced that it will be releasing a DVD of the£2.5m series, which the BBC pulled amid complaints from the ...
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Contender divides into two companies
Contender Entertainment Group, the kids character group chaired by former BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin, has re-formed into two new companies. Contender Home Entertainment will focus services such as DVD distribution while Rubber Duck Entertainment will look after all production and rights for Contender's properties such as ...
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BBC3 offers The Mighty Boosh first on broadband
BBC3 is to become the first UK channel to premiere a programme over its broadband website service.
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Robbie tops glittering pile at Live 8
The BBC's coverage of the historic Live 8 concert was inevitably a smash hit.
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IWC wins BBC1 daytime order
IWC Media has bagged its first BBC1 daytime commission with a series that pits modern doctors and nurses against medics from the 1950s.
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Celador exclusive
Celador Productions has gained access to a US child talent contest for a Channel 4 documentary about young British hopefuls and their pushy parents. Give My Kid a Contractwill follow the UK competitors at the week long Actors, Models and Talent Convention in Florida from 26 ...
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Radio indies win better BBC deal
Independent radio producers are to get a better deal from the BBC after trade body the Radio Independents Group (RIG) and the BBC agreed new terms of trade.
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GCap threatens to sue regulator
Radio giant GCap Media has threatened to sue Ofcom if the regulator decides to license further national digital multiplexes.
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Ofcom to review cross-promotion rules
Ofcom has agreed to review the rules prohibiting cross-promotion of commercial radio licences to help the sector compete better with the BBC.
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Everden steps down from ITV executive role
ITV network's longest-serving programme executive, editor of entertainment Tony Everden, has stepped down after deciding to retire.
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Teachers' TV online
Teachers' TV is making its entire archive of programmes available online to give teachers full on-demand access to its material. The digital channel will upload the day's content in advance at 6am each morning. The channel - which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills and broadcasts advice, ...