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Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV
Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.
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Cosgrove Hall develops teens toon
Cosgrove Hall Films is to develop a new animated show around a group of streetwise friends with Manchester-based indie Streetplay Design. The Slums, which will target 15 to 24-year-olds, is part of Cosgrove Hall's strategy to expand out of producing shows for just the pre-school market. Writers working on the ...
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Beaton sets up TV consultancy
Former Action Time managing director Caroline Beaton has launched a TV consultancy which will offer advice on anything from international distribution to advertiser-funded programming.
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Format focus: the immortals
In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.
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Granada International in wildlife deal
Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...
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Norway picks up fremantle formats
Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...
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I'd do anything to be remade for Romania
BBC1 Saturday night show I'd Do Anything is be remade for Romanian audiences. Distraction Formats has brokered the deal with Prima TV for the TWI-owned format that challenges people to face their worst fears to win a prize for a loved one. The format has ...
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Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc
Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...
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Fox's FX picks up action sports docs
Fox-owned FX's vice-president of broadcasting and marketing, Jason Thorp, has bought three action sports and adventure documentaries from indie Black Diamond. They are surfing documentaries Step in Liquid and The Endless Summer and Chlorine , ...
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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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Celador appoints interactive media chief
Celador International has appointed Flextech TV's Simon Gunning to head its interactive media division. Gunning, formerly Flextech's head of business development and then controller of interactive programming, will seek out rights to third-party properties and develop commercial iTV solutions. He replaces Bruce Vandenburg who is setting up his own venture.
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Channel 4 news wins second news Emmy
Channel 4 News won its second consecutive international Emmy for the best news programme outside the US. The ITN team picked up an award for its coverage of the Madrid bomb attacks in March. Also, former Carlton factual controller Richard Clemmow won a documentary Emmy for ...
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Jowell lobbied over BBC Technology sale
Broadcasting union Bectu met media secretary Tessa Jowell on Monday (13 September) to lobby against the proposed sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens. Jowell was said to have given a 'sympathetic hearing' to the union's concerns and wrote to the BBC on Tuesday asking for clarification on them. ...
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Shine poaches BBC development exec
Shine has appointed former BBC development executive Sara Brailsford as editor of features. Brailsford will work across Shine's features as well as taking on the role of series producer on new ITV show Best House Buy.
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Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky
Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...
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The digital deadline
Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?
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NewsDyke: what I would have moved north
Greg Dyke was planning to move Radio 5 Live, BBC3, CBBC and CBeebies and half of the BBC's new media operation to Manchester before he was forced out of the director general's job in the aftermath of Hutton.
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NewsThreats fly in format war
Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.
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NewsTroubled EastEnders calls in Holby producer
The BBC has drafted in a Holby City producer to deputise for EastEnders ' under-fire executive producer, Louise Berridge, and take over much of the day-to-day running of the soap.
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NewsPriest Idol show given C4's blessing
Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.