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Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc
Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...
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Fox's FX picks up action sports docs
Fox-owned FX's vice-president of broadcasting and marketing, Jason Thorp, has bought three action sports and adventure documentaries from indie Black Diamond. They are surfing documentaries Step in Liquid and The Endless Summer and Chlorine , ...
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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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Celador appoints interactive media chief
Celador International has appointed Flextech TV's Simon Gunning to head its interactive media division. Gunning, formerly Flextech's head of business development and then controller of interactive programming, will seek out rights to third-party properties and develop commercial iTV solutions. He replaces Bruce Vandenburg who is setting up his own venture.
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Channel 4 news wins second news Emmy
Channel 4 News won its second consecutive international Emmy for the best news programme outside the US. The ITN team picked up an award for its coverage of the Madrid bomb attacks in March. Also, former Carlton factual controller Richard Clemmow won a documentary Emmy for ...
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Jowell lobbied over BBC Technology sale
Broadcasting union Bectu met media secretary Tessa Jowell on Monday (13 September) to lobby against the proposed sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens. Jowell was said to have given a 'sympathetic hearing' to the union's concerns and wrote to the BBC on Tuesday asking for clarification on them. ...
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Shine poaches BBC development exec
Shine has appointed former BBC development executive Sara Brailsford as editor of features. Brailsford will work across Shine's features as well as taking on the role of series producer on new ITV show Best House Buy.
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Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky
Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...
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The digital deadline
Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?
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NewsDyke: what I would have moved north
Greg Dyke was planning to move Radio 5 Live, BBC3, CBBC and CBeebies and half of the BBC's new media operation to Manchester before he was forced out of the director general's job in the aftermath of Hutton.
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NewsThreats fly in format war
Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.
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NewsTroubled EastEnders calls in Holby producer
The BBC has drafted in a Holby City producer to deputise for EastEnders ' under-fire executive producer, Louise Berridge, and take over much of the day-to-day running of the soap.
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NewsPriest Idol show given C4's blessing
Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.
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CanWest enters bid for FM licence
Canadian media giant CanWest is looking to take a slice of the UK radio market with a bid for an FM licence in Manchester.
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Village people's gay test
Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.
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Talkback lifestyle formats sell to US
Talkback Productions' new lifestyle shows Too Posh to Wash and The Sex Inspectors are to be remade for US audiences.
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Optimistic moves into format development
The Optimistic Network, the company behind producer-broadcaster Nation 217, is launching a format development arm to create content for other channels.
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Dimbleby takes over from Yentob to front arts show
Question Time presenter David Dimbleby is set to front BBC1's major new arts series A Picture of Britain , after BBC creative director Alan Yentob finally decided not to take the job.
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McKerrow departs Maverick
Richard McKerrow has quit as managing director of Maverick Television and is planning to launch his own indie.
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C4 agrees to carry Einstein docudrama
Darlow Smithson, the producer of Bafta-winning film Touching the Void , is developing a $2m (£1.1m) drama about Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific equation E=mc2 for Channel 4.