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Indies team up for Green drama
Touchpaper TV has teamed up with actor Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, to make a family drama for an early evening slot on BBC1.
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Reef wins BBC daytime order
Indie Reef Television has been commissioned to produce 23 hours of daytime programming for the BBC focusing on property in foreign climes.
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Dragon's Den to return in autumn
BBC2's Dragons' Denis to get a second run after being recommissioned. The 6 x 60-minute series is in pre-production and is due to go out in the autumn. It will follow a new group of budding business entrepreneurs as they pitch their ideas to a panel ...
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BBC1 goes on the buses with Landmark
The life of a London bus driver is being brought to the screen for a BBC1 documentary series. Big Red Bus(working title), by indie Landmark Films, follows the instructors as they put rookie drivers through their paces. The 8 x 30-minute series, due for transmission this ...
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Doc to look at Egypt's sacred animals
Parthenon Entertainment is making two 50-minute specials for Animal Planet to air early next year. Sacred Animals of the Pharaohsexamines what it meant to be a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. The show is being delivered in October. Phantom of Vietnamfollows a ...
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Teachers' TV orders three new series
Libra Television is making three series for Teachers' TV's autumn schedule . Ease the Loadis a 6 x 15-minute show for the General Zone, a magazine programme in which schools share ways of achieving a healthy work/life balance. Managing Inclusion is a 2 x ...
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Commissioner's Q& A: Paul Welling
The vice-president and channel director, Discovery Home & Leisure and Discovery Travel & Living wants pitches for h...
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C4 assigns more money to More4
Channel 4 has increased the annual programming budget for its new free-to-air digital service More4 from£30m to£3...
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Hit at centre of bidding war
Hit Entertainment is set to find itself at the centre of a£500m bidding war as Canadian media group Lions Gate Entertainment prepares to make a takeover approach.
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YooMedia in stategic deal for ViaVision
Yoomedia, the interactive group headed by former BBC executive David Docherty has paid around£1.3m for ViaVision, the owner of Game-In TV, in a bid to expand its presence in the gaming industry.
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US channel to co-pro second Nighty Night
Oxygen, the US cable women's channel founded by chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, has stepped in to co-produce the second series of award-winning BBC comedy Nighty Night.
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Amir Khan brings boxing back to ITV
ITV is to broadcast boxing for the first time in over 10 years, after it secured the rights to broadcast the rematch between Amir Khan and the man who beat him for the Olympic gold medal in Athens, Mario Kindelan. The bout, which takes place at the Reebok Stadium in ...
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Emap in running to buy up all of SRH
Emap, the owner of the Kiss and Magic radio networks, has admitted it is interested in acquiring all of Scottish Radio Holdings but has yet to make a formal approach. Over a year since Emap, publisher of Broadcast, bought 27.8% of SRH, Scotland's biggest commercial radio ...
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Broadcasters to pay less for Ofcom
Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year. The regulator said its 2005/6 budget would be around£133m - 5% lower than the£140m it was allocated for the year to 31 March 2005. Ofcom will also receive a£5m research grant ...
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At It hires Blaker as senior staff rejig
Indie At It Productions has appointed Ashley Blaker as senior development producer for comedy and entertainment. Blaker was recently head of development for So Television. Meanwhile, At It has rejigged its senior staff, appointing head of development Sheldon Lazarus to a new role of head of factual and specials. Paul ...
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Temporary head found for BBC sport
BBC Sport's head of programmes and planning Pat Younge is being temporarily replaced by Grandstand and Sports Personality of the Yeareditor Philip Bernie. Younge is joining Discovery Communications in the US to run its Travel Channel and has already left the corporation. Bernie has stepped into ...
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Zig Zag to open New York office
ZIG ZAG Productions, the London-based independent behind Fashanu's Football Challenge, is to open two new offices in New York and Brighton.
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Radio 1 'saviour' Moyles out in cold at Sonys
Loudmouth DJ Chris Moyles has been snubbed by judges of the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards, despite pulling in over a million extra listeners to the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.
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Dick and Dom's Ask the Family fails to bag viewers
Dick and Dom, the BBC's critically acclaimed children's presenters, suffered a setback in their bid to follow rivals Ant and Dec into peaktime, after their quiz show Ask the Familywas largely ignored.