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    All3Media signs series deals at Mipcom

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    All3Media International secured sales at Mipcom for series including Midsomer Murders and Ultimate Force. AB Group in France has picked up the 16 x 60-minute drama Ultimate Force. Extension deals for the drama ...

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    Zeal nets rights package for Flipside TV

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Zeal Television has picked up the rights to channel surfing show Flipside TV. The show was first shown on the Optimistic Network-owned channel Nation 217 last November and has since been simulcast on Channel 4 and Paramount. Zeal TV will sell the format outside ...

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    Avalon makes global Sketch Show sales

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Avalon International has made sales of Bafta-award winning comedy The Sketch Show. Danish broadcaster Danmarks Radio has picked up the show while Pure TV in Canada and France's DMLSTV Productions and TF1 will make local-language versions. Earlier this year, US network Fox commissioned a domestic ...

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    Ten Alps arm 3BM wins Five series

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Michael Buerk is to front a one-off special for Five that will count down the top 10 seminal moments in modern history.

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    BBC Birmingham marks 30 years since pub bombings

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    BBC Birmingham has commissioned Midlands independent BFM Productions to make a 30-minute documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.

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    C4 goes X-rated for film history

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is to broadcast some of the most controversial sex scenes on television with a new commission from ITN-owned production arm Visual Voodoo.

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    RDF asks if Jacko is wacko

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    RDF Media is to follow up its hit documentary Michael Jackson's Face with a look at the mental state of the dysfunctional superstar.

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    Commissioner's Q&A: Andrew Mackenzie

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4's editor, factual entertainment has a budget of up to£170,000 an hour and is hunting for series ideas for the 11pm slot

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    So come dancing for Graham Norton

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 has revealed details of star signing Graham Norton's first project for the corporation - a further spin-off from Strictly Come Dancing. Norton, who was poached from Channel 4 last December, will front the in-house produced Strictly Dance Fever ...

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    S4C commissions kids series about sheep

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    S4C has commissioned a new long-running children's show featuring a family of sheep. Siwan Jobbins, S4C commissioning editor for children, has ordered 52 x 15-minute series The Baas from Cardiff-based indie Cynhyrchiadau Ceidiog Creations for broadcast in mid-2005. It will feature actors in costumes, created ...

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    ITV to show Christmas Day kids doc

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    A documentary following the children and teachers of St Stephen's Church of England primary school will form part of ITV1's morning Christmas Day output this year. The 60-minute religious show, Don't Drop the Baby Jesus , is being produced by Ray Bruce with Nick Stuart ...

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    Five orders eighth series of Rad

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Five has commissioned an eighth series of its youth sports series Rad from indie Sunset and Vine. Ordered by Five controller of children's Nick Wilson , Rad - The Groms Tour America will feature six of the ...

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    Moore to make another it's my life

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    ITV has commissioned Manchester-based indie Moore Television to make a fourth series of its Terry Christian-fronted ethics series, It's My Life. The 8 x 45-minute run will again look at the moral dilemmas faced by young people and air next year. Geoff Moore is ...

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    Apax move links Dyke with ITV bid

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has joined private equity firm Apax Partners, increasing speculation that he plans to head a bid for ITV.

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    Scott to quit C4 after 24 years

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 deputy chief executive David Scott, the channel's longest serving board member, has become the first senior executive to quit since the arrival of new chief executive Andy Duncan.

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    TCM cuts universal film deal

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    Turner Classic Movies has struck its first content deal with a non-AOL Time Warner company, buying a series of films from Universal Studios. The deal gives TCM access to a range

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    Support falls for licence fee

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    The number of people supporting the licence fee has dropped by 9% over the past 14 years, a new BBC survey has found.

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    BBC Japan goes ahead

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    BBC worldwide is to launch an entertainment channel in Japan.

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    Ant & Dec form indie

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    ITV entertainment stars Ant and Dec have set up their own production company called Gallowgate Productions and are developing a new entertainment format. The newly formed operation, named after an area of Newcastle, is also looking at comedy drama and the pair are also keen on doing a sitcom.

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    BBC Reeve tribute

    2004-10-14T08:30:00Z

    The BBC is to broadcast its latest documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as a tribute to the star, following his sudden death this week. Christopher Reeve: Keeping Hope in Motion was commissioned from indie TWI last year to chronicle his struggle to walk ...