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Bollywood playout
Advanced Broadcast Services has won the contract to provide all playout for Bollywood movie channel B4U. B4U broadc...
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Infinite move
UK crewing company Infinite Vision has appointed Patrick Lindsell as head of cameras.
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Blue stitches up celebs for ITV1
Broadcast post facility Blue has created the look for the new ITV1 series Celebrity Stitch-Up.Blue graphic designer Simon Wye created the title sequence, bumpers and stings using Adobe's After Effects on Apple G5s. The titles use footage from the show of practical jokes being played on celebrities, ...
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DGP arranges TV club nights
DGP has designed and produced titles for a new strand on Thomson TV, produced by the Travel Channel. Freestyleis a weekly programme showcasing club-based hen and stag breaks in the sun for the 18 to 30-year-old age group. Designer Liam Corner worked in Photoshop and Flint ...
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Belgium gambles on The X Factor
The X Factoris set to be remade for audiences in Belgium, despite disappointing ratings for the Australian version.
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Sky Travel gets in on poker deal with Heads-Up event
Sky Travel has become the latest channel to turn its hand to poker after buying the UK rights to the World Heads-Up Championship 2005.
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RDF buys sealife series
RDF Rights has secured inter-national pre-sales for a self-funded adventure series in which explorer and marine biologist Monty Halls travels the world to swim with some of the sea's most spectacular creatures.
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Sci-fi orders Star Wars shorts
Sci Fi UK has greenlit its first commission in over two years, ordering a series of Star Warsshorts which will also air across owner NBC Universal's network of European channels. London-based Flawless Media, in collaboration with Lucas Film and Twentieth Century Fox, is making ...
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Format focus: The Castle
Celebrities are thrown together to experience life in medieval times in this format.
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ABC Australia buys 35 hours from C4I
Channel 4 International has sold 35 hours of programmes to ABC Australia including the fourth series of Tiger Aspect drama Teachers. ABC has also picked up the second series of Brat Camp, two-part documentary Who Wrote the Bible?,the second run of comedy ...
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My Family set to show on UKTV Gold
UKTV Gold has signed a three-year deal with BBC Worldwide and DLT Entertainment to take all five series of BBC1 sitcom My Family. The fifth series of the sitcom, which stars Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker, will get its first airing on the channel on 14 ...
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ID sends documentaries to New Zealand
ID Distribution has secured a series of deals with New Zealand public network TVNZ. The UK sales house has sold Five documentaries Mini Me Me Meand Bisexual Girls, ITV's 8 x 30-minute series Running Away with the Circusand Discovery ...
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Target makes pre-sales of Five's Fifi
Target Entertainment has made pre-sales of pre-school series Fifi and the Flowertotsto nine broadcasters. The 52 x 10-minute series, set to launch on Five and Nick Jr, has been sold to Australian public broadcaster ABC, France5, South Africa's MNET-K-TV & GO and SVT Sweden. The animated ...
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Fremantle takes Catherine drama
Fremantle International Distribution (FID) has acquired the global rights to forthcoming BBC drama Catherine the Great. The two-hour special will explore the turbulent life of the 18th-century Russian empress and is being made by Brook Lapping Productions. It will air on BBC2 later this year and ...
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Sky One lines up docs for Monday
Sky One is beefing up its Monday night documentary strand with four one-hour specials on a diverse range of subjects from DNA fraud to obesity.
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BBC2 prepares to mock the week with Bremnar
Impressionist Rory Bremner is teaming up with comedian Dara O'Briain for a new Sunday night comedy show for BBC2.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Tom Lenham
London TV's director of programmes would like to turn the capital and all it has to offer into one big televisual e...
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Gardening hopefuls study with Gavin
Eight would-be gardeners have given up their jobs to learn the secrets of horticulture for BBC2's latest gardening reality show, Tatton(working title). BBC Wales is filming the candidates, whose previous jobs range from police work to computing, as they spend five months living at the Royal Horticultural ...
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Angel Eye makes comedies for Radio 4
Indie Angel Eye is using the talents of three stand-up comedians to bring the tragic tales of two losers to life for BBC Radio 4. Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymorecentres on a deceased anti-hero who returns to his house as a ghost. The 6 x 30-minute ...
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ITV series gives contestants dream job
An ITV1 series is bringing a new twist to the Jim'll Fix Itconcept, by springing people's dreams on them by stealth. Don't Just Dream It,being made by Prospect Films, gives contestants just four days to train for their dream job. The 10 ...