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Analysis - On the box - Special day or tedium TV?
Lisa Chapman thought the BBC struggled to spice up this weekend's royal wedding coverage, while ITV and Sky News managed to strike a balance.
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NewsDesperate Housewives sinks to 3.9m
Channel 4's Desperate Housewiveshas lost some of its appeal with the viewers with last night's episode gaining a relatively low peak audience of 3.9 million (17%) at the start.
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RDF wins second US network order
RDF Media has secured another US network commission after The WB ordered a broadcast pilot of its Channel 4 relationship counselling format Families at War.
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Cash Cab quiz show sold in Europe before UK broadcast
Cash cab, an ITV1 quiz show from Lion TV, has been sold to several European territories before it has even aired in the UK.
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Five nicks MTV Awards
Five has poached terrestrial rights to broadcast the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) from Channel 4.
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Living to air Miss Popularity
Living TV has scooped the UK rights to New Zealand reality show Miss Popularityand will air it this summer on sister station Living TV2.
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Format focus: Fit For Family?
Think you would be a good parent? Taking part in this challenge show should test your child-rearing skills.
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Hallmark Channel buys school drama
The Hallmark Channel has acquired All3Media International's Julie Walters drama Ahead of the Classfor its feeds in Scandinavia, Luxembourg, eastern Europe, Israel, Middle East, Turkey and Africa. All3Media has also struck DVD and video deals with TVNZ in New Zealand and Granada Ventures in the UK. ...
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RDF Rights sells shows to Nine Network
RDF Rights has sold a range of programmes to Australian broadcaster Nine Network, including a docu-drama series script edited by Shamelesswriter Paul Abbott. Survivorsis being produced by Unique Television for ITV1 and dramatises the stories of people forced to fight for their ...
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Strictly Come Dancing on way to Spain
The BBC's entertainment hit Strictly Come Dancingis to get a Spanish makeover, following a format sale to Madrid-based reality producer Atomis Media. Managing director Isabel Raventos bought the format at Mip with details of the deal to be revealed later in the week. The show may ...
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Pre-sales deals done for Planet Earth
BBC Worldwide has secured a series of pre-sales for its landmark natural history series Planet Earth. The latest broadcasters to sign up for the 11-part series are Prime Television (New Zealand), DR (Denmark), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) and RUV (Iceland) in deals concluded at Mip. The ...
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Endemol takes on Don't Drop the Baby
Endemol has signed a deal with ID Distribution to take new format Don't Drop the Babyaround the world. The Big Brotherproducer has secured worldwide distribution rights to the format, in which celebrities must look after a state-of-the-art baby doll for a week. Indie ...
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OB set to be first in Resources sale
The sale of BBC Resources will not happen until 2006 but BBC Outside Broadcasts and regional assets could be sold as soon as July.
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Manchester's Sumners buys Da Vinci 2K
Manchester post facility Sumners has bought a Da Vinci 2K grading system as it aims to establish itself as the top HD finishing facility in Manchester.
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VTR plc restructure fails to increase profits
The restructure that cost the jobs of some of the top management at Soho facilities group VTR plc has so far brought disappointing results, it was admitted last week.
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Elliott joins Farm
Jason Elliott has left Sanctuary Post to join The Farm Group as sales manager filling the gap left by Rachel Joseph - who has joined Ascent Media Group. Elliott returns to the group after four years away, having previously worked at DVD facility Squash. He started last week.
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UK wins at Promax
UK companies last week dominated the European Promax & BDA awards, leaving the Athens Hilton with half of the night's 44 gold statuettes. Up-for-sale BBC Broadcast led the British contingent, picking up 10 of the 22 UK golds, including two for 1,000 Years of History in best ...
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Dubber joins TSI
Dubbing mixer Damian Reynolds has joined Covent Garden broadcast facility TSI. Reynolds joins from Soundstore where he completed work on projects including the Bafta-winning documentary The Many Lives of Richard Attenboroughfor the BBC Arena strand.
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DGP books bronze
DVD and post-production facility DGP has appointed Kate Bronze as bookings manager and promoted Anthony Van Den Putte to assist her in bookings. Van Den Putte was previously head of bookings and sales at Todd-AO Media UK. Bronze was senior bookings manager at MTV.
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Elstree tendering
The tender process for Elstree Film Studios - home of Big Brotherand Celebrity Wrestlinghas been opened