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London figurehead ousted in Disney shake-up
Disney International has signalled a shift in power back to Los Angeles after its London-based president David Hulbert was ousted as part of a management shake-up.
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Initial builds team
Endemol-owned indie Initial has strengthened its senior management team with three new appointments to handle its expanding production slate.
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RDFR in first-look deal with ZKK
RDF Rights (RDFR) has signed a first-look all-rights deal with factual indie ZKK that will see the Wife Swapproducer provide development funding for new programming and staff.
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Trisha to front outrageous TV clips on Five
Five is to extend its Greatest TV Momentsstrand and has secured new daytime signing Trisha Goddard to present the first of the new batch.
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Sellers biopic win
Company Pictures' biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellerswon two awards at the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday (16 January). The piece, which was co-produced by BBC Films and American pay-TV channel HBO, took the award for best miniseries or motion picture ...
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Van Outen in drama
Former Big Breakfastpresenter and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is. Van Outen will play district nurse and single mum Kim Blakeney, who moves to rural Yorkshire to start a ...
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Scot Sky News call
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has called for Sky News to launch a separate operation in Scotland, similar to that of its Sky News Ireland service which launched in May last year. SNP MSP Kenny MacAskill said that while Sky News has offices in Dublin and Limerick enabling two Irish ...
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Eurosport 2 launch
Eurosport has replaced Eurosportnews with a new-look channel called British Eurosport 2. The sister channel of British Eurosport will feature more breaking news, live coverage, interviews, magazine-style programmes and live results around the clock. A Eurosport spokesman said the rebranding was a reaction to the 24-hour rolling news culture.
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Sky One hit by 17% drop in 2004 audience
Broadcast looks at the winners and losers in multichannel over the last 12 months
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BBC1 to chart a year in the Navy year to fill
The BBC has commissioned a major documentary series charting a year in the life of the Royal Navy as part of the commemorations surrounding the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.
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MTV on series buying spree
MTV has commissioned a slate of new series, including a British version of car makeover show Pimp My Ride.
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Double order for September
Indie September Films has landed two new commissions, including a primetime special for ITV1 about nightmare nannies.
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Bravo to screen two FHM ventures
Bravo has teamed up with men's magazine FHMfor two new projects. The 60-minute Giant/Emap co-production The World Poker Exchange London Open, to air later this year, will follow 10 FHM readers as they play for£1m. It will also be broadcast on Flextech-owned ...
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C4 revisits soho for 1970s season
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN Factual to make Paul Raymond: The King of Soho, a documentary on the life and times of the renowned porn baron. The 60-minute programme, commissioned by C4 head of history and religion Hamish Mykura, will be narrated by ...
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Brideshead special leads off ITV3 rerun
Indie Free@Last TV has been commissioned to make an documentary on the classic ITV drama Brideshead Revisitedfor ITV3. Ordered by Daniela Neumann, controller of commissioned programmes for ITV2/ITV3, the hour-long Revisiting Bridesheadwill accompany a repeat of the series in September. Barry Ryan ...
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Airborne to look at 21st-century bras
Kent-based Airborne TV has bagged its first multichannel commission for Discovery Health to make Bra Wars - Boom or Bust. The 60-minute documentary, due to air at the end of February, will feature model Rachel Hunter and look at the 21st-century bra industry. Garry Grant will ...
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Commissioner's Q & A
br>Extreme Sports Channel managing director Europe Phil Jones is looking for broader lifestyle coverage for existing viewers and thinks that Gumball 3000 opened the way to bringing in new audiences
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ITV is a buyer too
Rather than letting itself be a target, would ITV do better making acquisitions of its own.
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Tailor-made seeks injunction on VRT
Indie Tailor-Made Films is seeking an injunction to stop Belgium's VRT broadcasting an alleged copycat version of its BBC1 format Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough. Lawyers will try to block the public broadcaster from screening the show this Friday (21 ...
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Chewing Gum wins development cash
Development company Chewing Gum has won£5,000 development money for the best interactive programme idea in a competition sponsored by Eckoh Technologies at Broadcast's Commissioning Conference in November. Chewing Gum's idea, Connections, is a programme combining genealogy and the web. Chewing Gum was set up by former Talkback Thames development producer ...