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Up Creative unveils Box promo
Emap Performance Design and creative agency Up Creative has produced a promo identity campaign for the interactive music channel The Box. The spots feature dubiously styled dance teachers inviting the viewer to try such farcical moves as the Shoot the Guns and The Talk Show Host. The Box's tag-line finishes ...
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C4 series tracks Asbo enforcer
Terrorised estates and frightened residents are to come under the spotlight for a C4 documentary on the only private firm allowed to dish out the controversial Anti-Social Behaviour Orders.
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C4 delves lost princes' death
Channel 4 has commissioned a docu-drama to uncover the truth behind Richard III's rise to the throne of England.
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Odd couples' stories for ITV2
ITV2 has commissioned Manchester-based indie Turn On Television to make a 6 x 60-minute series on some of Britain's...
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Commissioners Q&A: Emma Swain
BBC commissioning editor, specialist factual, and acting commissioning editor, formats and features wants indies to challenge her with bolder ideas to make the channel more surprising and risk-taking
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Car focus for James Dean crash revisit
Zig Zag Productions is to make a 60-minute special for Five and National Geographic USA about the car crash that killed movie icon James Dean . The Truth Behind James Dean's Car, made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the actor's death, will recreate the scene ...
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C4 Dispatches looks at dying wishes
Channel 4 is investigating British attitudes to death in a documentary for its flagship current affairs strand Dispatches. In the 60-minute film Last Rights(working title) Professor Laurie Taylor will be looking at why British people plan their funerals but give little thought ...
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ITV spends a year at historic school
Life behind the doors of Britain's oldest school is being caught on film for an ITV documentary. ...
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Two Way sets up offshoot with HTI
Interactive TV specialist Two Way TV has set up a production and distribution offshoot and has picked up its first two jobs from Sky Movies and Flextech.
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C4 poaches Party in the Park from Five
Channel 4 has snatched the rights to screen 95.8 Capital FM's music concert, Party in the Park, from Five.
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Gutteridge in shock US exit
Former TV Corp chief Tom Gutteridge is returning to the UK after unexpectedly quitting his job as chief executive of Fremantle Media North America (FMNA).
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Shiny Happy People: REM get own channel
Video Networks has launched a video-on-demand channel dedicated to US rock group REM. As of yesterday (31 March) subscribers to Video Networks' on-demand service Homechoice will be able to access all manner of footage relating to REM, including pop videos, documentaries and concert footage. REM on V:MX will have three ...
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C4 aims antiques show at grey market
Channel 4 has commissioned an antiques-based gameshow as part of its strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime schedule.
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BBC1 orders third Hustle from Kudos
Kudos Film & Television has been commissioned to make a third series of Hustle, the indie's BBC1 drama which kicked off its second series this week.
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Who leaker sacked
The person who leaked the opening episode of the new Doctor Whoseries over the internet has been sacked. The BBC launched a manhunt with its Canadian broadcast partner CBC after thousands of fans downloaded an illegal copy of the first instalment. The person responsible worked for ...
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Barb includes PVRs
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) is to enhance its overnight viewing by adding data from PVR users. Viewers who pause or record a programme using a PVR, such as Sky+, and then watch it the same day will now be included in the overnights figures supplied the following day. ...
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NewsDoctor Who peaks at 44% share
The much-hyped return of Doctor Whoto BBC1 not only meant victory over the Autons but also saw off ITV1's popular duo Ant and Dec.
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India gets BBC feed
BBC World has created a separate satellite feed for India as part of an experiment in localised news. The channel has been making versions of its programmes specifically for India for seven years, but will now broadcast a unique schedule to the country from its Asian PAS 10 satellite. If ...
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New COO for ITV
ITV has promoted Ian McCulloch to the role of chief operating officer for its broadcasting division. McCulloch, who is currently managing director of operations at the company, has just gone to Harvard on a business course, but will take up the role on his return. He will continue to report ...