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    News 24 promotion

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC head of television news Roger Mosey has promoted BBC News 24 strand editor David Kermode to the post of weekend editor, television news. He replaces Jawad Iqbal, who becomes editor of BBC4 News. Kermode will be in charge of all BBC1 bulletins as well as output on the news ...

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    Lion to restage the Crusades

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Lion Television has won a multimillion-pound commission from US broadcaster the History Channel to bring the wars of the Crusades back to life.

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    Woolworth's and BBC in DVD joint-venture

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has announced plans to merge its video and DVD publishing business with Woolworth's video and music publishing operation, VCI, creating a business with a£180m turnover.

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    Diet Trials set for Germany

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide is to co-produce a new series of slimming reality series Diet Trials for German audiences.

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    Granada sells package to South Korea

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has sold more than 35 hours of programming to South Korean cable broadcaster Joongang, including The Forsyte Saga , Celebrity Bootcamp, Marry Me, The Tourist Trap, Brides of the Bath and Cirque du ...

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    Nickelodeon orders prism cartoons

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Indie Prism Entertainment has won a commission from Nickelodeon Europe to make its planned Simpsons -style cartoon based on real families. Three families from Benelux, Scandinavia and Spain will be chosen to star in local versions of the show. They will feature in comedy-driven storylines ...

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    C4I sales success in France and Germany

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 International has made several documentary sales into France and Germany. French broadcaster M6 has bought six titles, including The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart from Darlow Smithson Productions, Lock up Your Songs from Firecracker Films, ...

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    Screentime scores with soccastars

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Screentime Partners has inked deals for its football-based reality format Soccastars. VideoMedia Italia will make a local version for Italy while Advance TV has picked up the option for the Netherlands. The format will also be pitched to broadcasters in Denmark, Estonia, Finland and ...

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    Cineflix completes zero hour deals

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Cineflix International's disaster documentary series Zero Hour has been licensed to Australia's Seven Network, the Holland Media Group, New Zealand's TVNZ and Germany's Vox. The 4 x 60-minute series was co-produced by 3BM Television and Cineflix's parent company, Cineflix Canada, and received additional funding from ...

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    New sales executive for Minotaur

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Minotaur International has appointed former Fireworks International director of factual Marjie Woods as senior sales executive. Reporting to vice-president Sarah

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    Format focus: TV diaries

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Public voting adds interest to a show based around what at first resembles Big Brother audition tapes

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    C4 probes 9/11 terror attacks

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks will be put to the test in an investigative documentary for Channel 4.

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    ITV orders its first paranormal show

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    ITV has commissioned its first paranormal investigation with a one-off show from September Films in which a psychic attempts to drive out a spirit haunting a family home.

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    Bravo to air LA-Miami rally

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Model Helena Christensen, actor Nick Moran and heiress Paris Hilton are among the celebrities taking part in a new car rally across America to be shown on Flextech's channel Bravo.

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    Five looks at ?human computer'

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Five has teamed up with four other broadcasters to make a programme about a boy dubbed the 'human computer'.

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    Countdown safe for another five years

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has recommissioned Yorkshire Television to make its long-running daytime quiz show Countdown for another five years. Under the new contract between C4 and Countdown producer Yorkshire Television, presenters Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman are tied in to the ...

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    John Lydon fronts discovery bug doc

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    North One Television has just begun production on a 10 x 30-minute series for Discovery Channel called John Lydon's Mega Bugs. Produced in the US, where the former Sex Pistols frontman and recent star of I'm a Celebrity? lives, ...

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    Fat Friends returning for fourth series

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a fourth series of Kay Mellor's acclaimed drama Fat Friends , starring Alison Steadman and Lisa Riley. The series, which has already gone into production for a slot early next year, will be made by Mellor's indie, ...

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    Granada to make psycho-thrillers

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    ITV has commissioned Granada to produce two psychological thrillers from its Manchester drama department. The Stepfather, a two-parter written by Simon Booker, stars Philip Glenister as a father whose 15-year-old daughter has gone missing amid suggestions that he has murdered her. The film, which goes ...

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    Apple-based post house goes under

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    London's first dedicated Apple-based post-production facility has been forced to shut its doors just six months after opening, raising questions over Final Cut Pro's place in the market.