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Pop Factory hiring
Welsh indie The Pop Factory has appointed former Zeal Music head of production Dewi Evans as commercial director. Evans, who worked on music series The Pepsi Chartand the international roll-out of CD:UK, has been charged with driving the Pop Factory brand into the global marketplace and ...
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Red Hot under fire
Freeview lawyers have issued a warning to adult service Red Hot over the channel's use of the Freeview trademark. The Richard Desmond-owned channel began broadcasting last week on channel 61 of the DTT platform on a pay-per-view basis. However, as Red Hot is renting the space from Top-Up TV, the ...
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Smooth to roll out
Guardian Media Group Radio is to launch its Smooth FM station nationwide on the Sky Digital platform. The station, which currently airs a mix of soul and R'n'B music in the north-west, will begin broadcasting across the country on channel 878 from 14 February. It rebranded as Smooth last year ...
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Rugby wins 8.9m
BBC1's coverage of the Six Nations rugby union clash between Wales and England on Sunday (6 February) was watched by an average of 6.7 million viewers (33%). Six Nations Grandstand, which ran from 5.15pm to 7.20pm, peaked at 7.10pm with 8.9 million (40%). The event beat ...
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Celador to woo over-50s for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Celador Productions to make 40 episodes of a nostalgia-based quiz show as part of a strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime line-up.
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Optomen tests religions
World record-holding triple jumper and devout Christian Jonathan Edwards is to front a Channel 4 show that tries to help members of the public improve their lives with spiritual practice.
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ITV2 orders Celebrity doc
Model Sophie Anderton, who featured in ITV's last I'm a Celebrity?series, is to be the subject of a one-off documentary for ITV2.
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C4 puts volunteers through torture
Channel 4 is set to test the effects of modern torture techniques in The Guantánamo Guidebookfrom Brat Camp producer Twenty Twenty. Seven volunteers will be subjected to practices allegedly used at the US military camp in Guantánamo Bay. Slated for a late-night slot this year, the ...
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Waddell takes off for Discovery
Brian Waddell Productions is to co-produce a documentary with Discovery on an attempt to make the first solo non-stop flight around the world. The 60-minute show will be directed by Discovery's David Cumming and producer/director Kelda McCann and executive produced by Janine Waddell. It will air on the Discovery Channel ...
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Ladbroke wins multiple radio order
Ladbroke Productions has picked up 17 commissions from BBC radio including a range of drama and documentary series. Highlights include a three-hour recording of period stage play Don Carlos, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, for Radio 3. The executive producers on all shows, which will air across ...
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Smith & Watson builds property show
Devon-based indie Smith & Watson Productions has landed a property commission for Discovery Home and Leisure. The 10 x 30-minute Building a Dreamwill follow four house-build projects and is due to air in the autumn. Nick Smith is producer with Discovery's Leonie Hutchinson as executive producer.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Mark Freeland
The BBC's head of comedy commissioning admits that a rude word in the title of a proposal can help sell it to him - oh, and it helps if the script summons up the singing of non-standard angels
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Six houses test tapeless for BBC
The BBC has selected six post-production companies to help test how it will pipe sound and pictures around the country without the expense of using videotape.
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Cheesbrough: BBC to move to HD by 2010
All BBC programmes will be made in high definition by the end of the decade, according to the corporation's head of technology production, Paul Cheesbrough.
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Hollyoaks in text message spin-off series
Channel 4 New Media and Conker Media - Mersey Television's digital development and production division - are launching an improved mobile phone soap opera that will run alongside Channel 4's Hollyoaks.
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Darby goes into Red
London post company Red has appointed former board director of The Hive Debbie Darby as senior producer. Darby was made redundant last September after six years at VTR and The Hive. She also spent 11 years as an associate director and senior producer at design agency Lambie-Nairn. The appointment is ...
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Voting for UK Post
The shortlist for the delayed second regional seat on the UK Post board has been confirmed. The candidates include managing director Gerard Brady, Offline Central; managing director David Mousley, Red Vision;
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BBC post wins in NY
BBC Post Production picked up a Gold World Medal at the 2005 Television Programming and Promotion Competition in New York for its special effects in BBC Broadcast's title sequence for the Olympic Games. The sequence, which followed an Olympic torch-bearer as he is confronted by elemental god-like forces, was worked ...
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Jowell reassures
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has given assurances to potential bidders for BBC Broadcast that they will be provided with financial information prior to bidding for the commercial transmission arm. 'I understand that the BBC plan is to begin the formal sale process by early March and will make increasing levels ...
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Sanctuary Post faces the music
Sanctuary Post is post-producing BBC Entertainment's new series Facing the Music. The series for BBC2 is presented by husband and wife vocal coaching team, David and Carrie Grant, who attempt to teach members of the public to use singing to say something special to someone in ...