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Jump in Millionaire makeover
Jump has completed a redesign of the titles and graphics for Celador's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Franchise holders in more than 90 countries will pick up the new design. Jump's senior designers, Russell Hilliard and Russell Mann, designed the sequence, while the 3D ...
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Thomson man goes
Manufacturer Thomson Grass Valley's UK managing director and sales director, David Philips, has left the company suddenly and is now on gardening leave. Jan Looijmans, sales director for the Benelux region, has stepped in to assume the role of sales director, northern Europe and Benelux. Thomson Grass Valley global communications ...
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LPC loses its MD
Managing director Maurizio Cimelli has left London Playout Centre (LPC) after 11 years at the facility - three of which as managing director. Bob Gentry, the director of network services, will fill the slot for the immediate future. Cimelli started at LPC as finance controller when it was owned by ...
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Online appointment
Online music research tool Play has hired Simon James as its new director of operations and development. James leaves BMGZomba Production Music where he was director of marketing. Play launched in April 2002 and has 20,000 subscribers worldwide.
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UP Satellite in UK
Ascent Media Group chief executive Ken Williams has predicted that there will be an upsurge in commercials finished in digital intermediate and even more growth in feature films. As a result, Ascent plans to put forward UP Satellite in the UK, a service currently available at Ascent companies in the ...
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EBU HD amendment
The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.
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Sky One orders Easycruise show
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.
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Hunniford returns with celeb homes series
Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.
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League of Gentlemen writer is signed for new BBC3 comedy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the writer of The League of Gentlemen.
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BBC signs Lancashire to play Cannings
Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a BBC1 docu-drama. Cherished will be based on the case of Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her children and spent two years in prison ...
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C4 orders refugee doc from insight
Indie Insight News Television has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a documentary about refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. A co-production with the Discovery Channel, Living with Refugees follows journalist Sorious Samura in eastern Chad as he travels with families forced to ...
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Gamer.tv to produce new bravo series
Bravo has commissioned a new series for video games players to replace long-running series Gamepad. Dominik Diamond will host 20 x 30-minute series When Games Attack , which will be made by indie Gamer.tv and shown this autumn. The ...
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Pact launches indie rights body
Producers' alliance Pact has launched a new division to help producers better exploit and protect their programmes and is in talks to merge the BTDA into it.
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Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV
Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.
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Cosgrove Hall develops teens toon
Cosgrove Hall Films is to develop a new animated show around a group of streetwise friends with Manchester-based indie Streetplay Design. The Slums, which will target 15 to 24-year-olds, is part of Cosgrove Hall's strategy to expand out of producing shows for just the pre-school market. Writers working on the ...
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Beaton sets up TV consultancy
Former Action Time managing director Caroline Beaton has launched a TV consultancy which will offer advice on anything from international distribution to advertiser-funded programming.
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Format focus: the immortals
In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.
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Granada International in wildlife deal
Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...
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Norway picks up fremantle formats
Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...
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I'd do anything to be remade for Romania
BBC1 Saturday night show I'd Do Anything is be remade for Romanian audiences. Distraction Formats has brokered the deal with Prima TV for the TWI-owned format that challenges people to face their worst fears to win a prize for a loved one. The format has ...