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May date for GWR and Capital merger
GWR and Capital Radio have said they expect to complete their merger by early May, although they have lost one of the key architects of the union. Nathalie Schwartz, Capital's strategy and development director, will leave at the end of this month with no job to go to. In its ...
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NewsDick and Dom to front quiz show
Dick and Dom, the BBC children's presenters who were recently singled out by a Tory MP for lavatorial humour, are to make a move to primetime with a new BBC2 quiz show. Dick and Dom's Ask the Family, which will air in an early evening slot ...
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BBC announces plans for division sale
The BBC has said it intends to sell its BBC Broadcast playout and transmission arm by 1 July. A shortlist of bidders will be selected in April with a preferred bidder chosen by early June. The asset is likely to fetch up to£150m. Likely bidders include a venture capital- backed ...
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Joey to kick off Five's comedy Zone
Five is to launch its Comedy Zone on Sunday 13 February with a double bill of US imports Joeyand Two and a Half Men. The Friendsspin-off, believed to have cost Five£450,000 an episode, will launch the new zone ...
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Hi De Hi inspires C4 reality series
Brat Campindie Twenty Twenty Television is to recreate the low-brow camp of Hi De Hias part of a new reality series for Channel 4.
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Liberty Bell allotted BBC2 show
Liberty Bell Productions, the indie behind the hit BBC show Grumpy Old Men, has been commissioned to make a BBC2 daytime series about allotments.
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True North wins orders for Life
Leeds indie True North Productions has been commissioned to make three documentaries for the BBC's One Lifeand ITV's Real Lifestrands.
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Commisioners Q&A: Fenia Vardanis
With her first commission of the year, the BBC's senior commissioning executive, entertainment thinks she may have hit upon the next big thing after property and babies
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BBC orders greig-fronted rom-com
The BBC has commissioned a romantic comedy drama starring Green Wingactress Tamsin Greig and The Wonder Years'Michael Landes. The 6 x 60-minute Love Soup, written by David Renwick, whose credits include Jonathan Creekand One ...
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ITV plans two more audiences with...
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned two further An Audience with...specials featuring I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!winner Joe Pasquale and 'pub landlord' comedian Al Murray. The shows, which are expected to air on ITV1 from March, will ...
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Celebs pick top TV moments for UKTV
UKTV has asked celebrities to recall their favourite TV moments for a 60-minute show to air across eight of its 10 channels. Commissioned by director of network programming Charlotte Ashton, TV Firstsis made by Prospect Pictures and is part of a season celebrating TV. It will ...
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Chancellor on the Community Channel
Channel 4 Newsanchor Jon Snow is to interview chancellor Gordon Brown as part of a series of high-profile interviews for charity service the Community Channel. The 4 x 30-minute series, The Jon Snow Interviews, will air from the end of February, as part of the channel's ...
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Copycat dispute hits Tailor-Made
Indie Tailor-Made Films has lost a lucrative commission from a Belgian broadcaster after a rival station rushed a similar format into production.
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Target enters DVD market
Rights management company Target Entertainment is moving into the DVD market and has secured Graham Norton's US chat show for its first release.
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Sci fi stocks up on drama
Sci Fi has made a host of drama purchases, including Canadian paranormal series ReGenesis. Produced by Shaftesbury Films and distributed in the UK by Portman Television, the 26 x 30-minute series follows a team of genetic crime investigators. The initial 13-episode season has been completed and a ...
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Canada's Cineflix opens London office
Canadian-based producer/distributor Cineflix has set up a London office and poached Outline Productions managing director Simon Lloyd to run it.
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Under construction goes to Scandinavia
Zeal TV has sold its house-building reality format Under Constructionto Norway and Finland. Monster TV in Norway will produce 24 episodes, which will air twice weekly on TV2 this spring, and Channel 4 in Finland will also develop the format. In addition, Belgium's VTM has commissioned ...
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Julian Clary format sells to Russia
Distraction Formats has secured a raft of new deals for three of its shows. In the Dark, the UK format hosted by Julian Clary on ITV in 1996, will be remade by Russia's Muz TV. TPI in Indonesia has also taken the format, in which three ...
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Electric Sky shifts BBC tsunami doc
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made several sales of the BBC's Asian tsunami documentary, The Killer Wave. The 52-minute special, broadcast earlier this month, has been picked up by broadcasters in six countries including the US.