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Saints and sinners
As some of the top jobs in broadcasting become vacant, Broadcast considers some of TV's most notorious heroes and villains and asks which management styles inspire loyalty - and which provoke fear and loathing
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Bad Girls (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star and Daily Express
'Bitchy, brassy women. Weak corrupt men. Sex, drugs and violence.'...
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Every Time You Look at Me was poignant, often moving.'...
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'It's obviously a good thing to see a drama that tackles disability honestly... It's just a shame it had to be so d...
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'As soppy as Bambi, moving, thought-provoking and funny.'...
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'All this disability propaganda rather over-extended the piece, which, at 90-minutes, was far too long: had this be...
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Bravo buys Guns 'n' Roses inspired sitcom
Bravo has bought an animated sitcom staring guitarist Slash from rock band Guns 'n' Roses. The 8 x 30-minute Kid Notorious , from Comedy Central, is voiced by Robert Evans, the Hollywood producer behind The Godfather, Chinatown and ...
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Ancient Egyptians on route to Japan
Ancient egyptians, Wall to Wall's award-winning£6m historical documentary series, is set to be screened in Japan, writes Colin Robertson.
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S4C rejigs team in bid to boost co-pros
Welsh channel S4C has reshuffled its international team as part of a bid to shift its focus onto co-productions, writes Michael Rosser.
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Latin america to air without prejudice?
Channel 4 gameshow Without Prejudice is to be remade for viewers in Latin America. The 12 Yard format has been sold by Screentime Partners to Buenos Aires-based producer RGB Entertainment. The hidden-camera format, which gives a cash prize to members of the public based ...
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Celador racks up global format sales
Celador International has secured a raft of sales for three of its key formats. Talking Telephone Numbers has been picked up by producer TV Prava, which will produce a local series for RTS. The Brainiest format has been licensed to TVN in Poland for 10 x 60-minute series, ...
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Imago inks Extreme entertainment deal
Indie Imago Productions has signed a joint-venture deal with Extreme Entertainment to represent its new projects around the world. The deal is intended to generate
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3DD wins global rights to aids benefit
3DD Entertainment has picked up the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to Nelson Mandela's Aids awareness concert, 46664: The Message. The concert, held in Cape Town in November, was produced by Endemol UK's Initial TV and has been packaged as an hour-long TV special. It features performances from musicians such as ...
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Five factual series to analyse rare diseases
Five is to launch a factual strand focusing on unusual diseases and has commissioned Lion Television and Landmark Films to produce the first batch, writes Michael Rosser.
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Rogue trader to play celebrity poker
Flextech channel Challenge has lined up rogue trader Nick Leeson, Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray and Tom Parker Bowles for a new series of Celebrity Poker Club. Indie Presentable is making the 9 x 90-minute series, which will air from the end of June. The executive producers for Challenge are ...
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Discovery orders al-qaida documentary
October Films has been commissioned by Discovery Europe to produce a fast turnaround documentary on the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid. The one-hour special will examine the events of 11 March in which a suspected al-Qaida bomb killed more than 190 train passengers. Relatives of victims and investigators will be ...
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C4 commissions shaken babies film
Channel 4 editor, education and science Simon Dickson has ordered a 60-minute documentary on the recent controversy surrounding shaken babies from Films of Record in association with Pillarbox. The working-titled Beyond Reasonable Doubt will be directed by Juliet Murray and Clarissa Kindred and executive produced by Roger Graef and Clare ...
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RDF wins two travel shows from five
Five controller, features and entertainment Ben Frow has ordered two travel shows from RDF Media - Great Escapes and The World's 20 Best?. The shows are due to air next month and were both executive produced by RDF chief executive David Frank
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Beam.TV and IMD pioneer digital ad delivery
Beam.tv and Independent Media Distribution (IMD) last week became the first companies in the UK to digitally deliver a television commercial to a broadcaster via the internet when a Nestle commercial was delivered via an end-to-end digital IP network to Viacom-owned MTV, writes Rick Dacey.