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UK indie gets Canada extreme-sports job
Indie and distributor Black Diamond Films has been commissioned to produce two extreme-sports series by Global Broadcasting in Canada. The cable broadcaster X-Treme Channel will air bike sports series Spoked and skating series Concrete and Chaos , Both series will be 65 x 30-minutes long.
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Cicada and Dutch indie sign disaster deal
Factual specialist Cicada Films has inked a new co-production deal with Dutch indie Off the Fence for two disaster documentaries. Off the Fence will seek other partners for the documentaries and market the productions worldwide, starting at Mipcom. The Day the Earth Split in ...
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Cineflex mass sell to german networks
Five documentary series The Ultimates is among a raft of programming that has been sold to German networks by distributor Cineflix International. The 6 x 60-minute technology series has been taken by Kabel 1. Cineflix has also sold MayDay , ...
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Format Focus: How to Build Your Love
This dating and DIY hybrid follows 15 singles as they go all out to build a house and find love in the process, writes Michael Rosser
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C4 revamps US gay dating flop
Gay-themed dating reality format Playing it Straight , axed in the US after just three episodes, is being remade for Channel 4.
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Wise exits RDF to lead indie division
The series producer of RDF's hit Channel 4 show Wife Swap has quit to join the indie behind C4 opera The Death of Klinghoffer.
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ITN Factual handed documentary brief
ITN Factual has been commissioned by A&E Network in the US to make six documentaries for the Biography Channel.
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Shameless picks up Prix Italia award
Shameless , Channel 4's comedy drama about a dysfunctional Manchester family, has been named best drama series at the Prix Italia Awards, while the BBC has won four awards.
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Digital on the up
Digital TV is now in 55% of UK homes, with almost 4 million people taking up Freeview. Ofcom has reported that by 30 June this year, 13.7 million households had taken digital, TV with around 1 million taking analogue cable services. Overall, digital and analogue multichannel penetration stands at 59%. ...
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Rajar goes early
Rajar has agreed to move forward the time it releases it quarterly audience data in a bid to stem concerns over insider trading. The Rajar board will now give figures to its subscribers a day earlier at 5.30pm, embargoed for release at 7am the next day - the time the ...
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C4 renews ITN deal
Channel 4 has renewed ITN's contract to produce its midday news show for another two years. ITN will now supply C4's half-hour lunchtime newscast until the end of 2006, to coincide with the expiry of its existing contract for the channel's evening news show. The two contracts will now run ...
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GWR in licence bid
Classic FM owner GWR is to bid for a new FM licence covering Greater Manchester, with a rock format that champions new music. The Storm will give extensive airtime to unsigned bands and actively promote live music throughout the city if selected from a range of competitive bids by regulator ...
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UK Post to go on tour of regions
Post-production trade body UK Post is to embark on a nationwide roadshow in order to boost regional membership and address the concerns of regional members.
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Cost of turning Ally Pally into media hub to be£50m plus
The planned renovation and development of Alexandra Palace into a media campus is likely to cost at least£50m and could be as much as£100m.
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Joseph quits Pinewood for Farm Group
Pinewood Shepperton Studios director of television Rachel Joseph has quit the company after just nine months in order to take up a new management role at
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Five opts for IMS
Five has signed up access service provider Independent Media Support Group (IMS) to continue supplying its subtitling services until December 2009. IMS has supplied subtitling for Five since 2001 and also supplies subtitling for BSkyB. Ofcom announced in July that all channels that have greater than 0.05% of market ...
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MD post for Graves
General manager Rupert Graves has been promoted to managing director of TSI TX. The position has been created for Graves and will see his responsibilities expand as he takes a seat on the TSI TX board of directors, a place that he deserves, according to TSI managing director Simon Peach, ...
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Rushes hires Aubry
Post production house Rushes has signed up French Flame and Inferno artist Philippe Aubry. Aubry most recently worked at Cinesite, where he was responsible for the Inferno shots on the feature films King Arthur and Harry Potter and the Prisoner ...
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Investment plans
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought high-definition equipment to satisfy an upsurge in demand for the format. The recent purchase of four Sony HDC-950C2 high-def cameras and two HDCam recorders brings Presteigne's HD investment to more than£2.2m this year. One of the HD cameras was dry hired by the BBC for ...
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Filmlight kit sale
Soho post-production facilities Molinare and Framestore CFC have both bought Filmlight's new Baselight 8 grading system. The kit, which costs from Eu130,000 (£88,568), has been designed to be used as a 'hero suite' for high-end film grading.