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Patscheck steps in at sci-fi channel
Universal Studios has parachuted in Steven Patscheck, vice-president of programming, Universal Latin America and Brazil, to run the UK Sci-Fi channel until a new president has been hired. He takes over from Dan Marks, who left on Friday for BT. Patscheck will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the ...
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C4 and IWC join up to help new TV talent
Channel 4 and IWC Media is asking writers and directors to submit ideas for their new talent scheme, Coming Up. Eight ideas, which should be contemporary and aimed at a young, urban audience, will be made into 30-minute films and will broadcast on C4 later in the year. Writers should ...
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Target wins ITV daytime order
TARGET Entertainment's recently launched production arm has won its first terrestrial commission for a 25 x 30-minute daytime quiz on ITV.
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Octagon poaches In Colour? producer for factual push
Sports marketing firm Octagon CSI is pushing into factual and entertainment programming and has appointed the producer behind ITV's successful In Colour?strand to oversee the move.
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Plantin to exit September
September Films chief executive Marcus Plantin is to step down at the end of the year.
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New chief for Granada ent in Manchester
Granada producer Rachel Ashdown, the programme-maker behind ITV1's new entertainment show Celebrity Wrestling, is to replace Heather Coogan as head of entertainment in Manchester.
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Auschwitz documentary sold to Germany
BBC Worldwide has sold its landmark series on Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz to nearly 12 countries, including Germany. Public broadcaster NDR has bought 'Auschwitz: The Nazis'and 'The Final Solution'
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S4C in£1m hand-out
Welsh-language channel S4C has earmarked£1m in development finance for the indie sector over the next two years. The scheme will see Welsh indies compete for a share of the cash, which will be allocated to new drama, formats or inter-active projects. The invitation to tender will be published on the ...
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Pop Factory hiring
Welsh indie The Pop Factory has appointed former Zeal Music head of production Dewi Evans as commercial director. Evans, who worked on music series The Pepsi Chartand the international roll-out of CD:UK, has been charged with driving the Pop Factory brand into the global marketplace and ...
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Red Hot under fire
Freeview lawyers have issued a warning to adult service Red Hot over the channel's use of the Freeview trademark. The Richard Desmond-owned channel began broadcasting last week on channel 61 of the DTT platform on a pay-per-view basis. However, as Red Hot is renting the space from Top-Up TV, the ...
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Smooth to roll out
Guardian Media Group Radio is to launch its Smooth FM station nationwide on the Sky Digital platform. The station, which currently airs a mix of soul and R'n'B music in the north-west, will begin broadcasting across the country on channel 878 from 14 February. It rebranded as Smooth last year ...
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Rugby wins 8.9m
BBC1's coverage of the Six Nations rugby union clash between Wales and England on Sunday (6 February) was watched by an average of 6.7 million viewers (33%). Six Nations Grandstand, which ran from 5.15pm to 7.20pm, peaked at 7.10pm with 8.9 million (40%). The event beat ...
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Celador to woo over-50s for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Celador Productions to make 40 episodes of a nostalgia-based quiz show as part of a strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime line-up.
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Optomen tests religions
World record-holding triple jumper and devout Christian Jonathan Edwards is to front a Channel 4 show that tries to help members of the public improve their lives with spiritual practice.
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ITV2 orders Celebrity doc
Model Sophie Anderton, who featured in ITV's last I'm a Celebrity?series, is to be the subject of a one-off documentary for ITV2.
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C4 puts volunteers through torture
Channel 4 is set to test the effects of modern torture techniques in The Guantánamo Guidebookfrom Brat Camp producer Twenty Twenty. Seven volunteers will be subjected to practices allegedly used at the US military camp in Guantánamo Bay. Slated for a late-night slot this year, the ...
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Waddell takes off for Discovery
Brian Waddell Productions is to co-produce a documentary with Discovery on an attempt to make the first solo non-stop flight around the world. The 60-minute show will be directed by Discovery's David Cumming and producer/director Kelda McCann and executive produced by Janine Waddell. It will air on the Discovery Channel ...
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Ladbroke wins multiple radio order
Ladbroke Productions has picked up 17 commissions from BBC radio including a range of drama and documentary series. Highlights include a three-hour recording of period stage play Don Carlos, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, for Radio 3. The executive producers on all shows, which will air across ...
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Smith & Watson builds property show
Devon-based indie Smith & Watson Productions has landed a property commission for Discovery Home and Leisure. The 10 x 30-minute Building a Dreamwill follow four house-build projects and is due to air in the autumn. Nick Smith is producer with Discovery's Leonie Hutchinson as executive producer.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Mark Freeland
The BBC's head of comedy commissioning admits that a rude word in the title of a proposal can help sell it to him - oh, and it helps if the script summons up the singing of non-standard angels