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BBC script error hinders ABC deal
Plans to adapt BBC crime series Murder in Mind for the US could be scuppered after the corporation forgot to gain permission from the original scriptwriter.
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Turner and Nickelodeon make raft of promotions
Kids networks Turner Entertainment and Nickelodeon UK have both restructured their management line-ups.
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Canning Factory to make cartoon for Five kids slot
Animation specialist The Canning Factory has been given the greenlight to start production on a£1m pre-school cartoon for Five, writes Michael Rosser.
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Italian channel to adopt Kumars format
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is to make a local version of comedy chat show The Kumars at No. 42 for Canale 5 following a deal with indie Hat Trick International. The deal is accompanied by a second series commission of the format from Dutch public broadcaster ...
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BBC set to fund two ITV dramas
BBC Worldwide is funding and distributing two Red Production dramas for ITV1 - the first time the corporation has helped pay for a show on its commercial rival.
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RDF poaches C4 pair for consumer rights arm
RDF Media is looking to snatch more business from rivals BBC Worldwide and 4 Rights with the launch of a consumer division.
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Great Britons format sold to South Africa
South African broadcaster SABC has bought the rights to BBC format Great Britons and plans to use the show as part of its coverage of the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid.
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ITV continues restructure of key areas
ITV has appointed a commercial director for the network and an operations head for its news group.
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This Morning shift
Granada has promoted Simon Greenwood to the role of senior specials producer on ITV1 daytime show This Morning. He will now head the specials team with a specific brief to generate more human interest stories. He takes over from Vickie Stokes who is now ...
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Teletext TV launch
Teletext is launching its first digital television channel. Teletext Holidays TV will begin broadcasting on Sky on 23 February backed by a£4m launch budget. The 24-hour station will be produced by indie New Era Television, and will feature destination guides, holiday news, weather reports and viewer competitions. If the channel ...
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C4I secures deals with french channels
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales in France, including the acclaimed arts reality show Operatunity. The Diverse Productions series has been picked up by Arte. In addition, French entertainment channel M6 has bought ITN Factual's two-part documentary Di's Guys and France ...
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Midsomer goes to Germany for first time
All3Media International has made its first sale of ITV crime series Midsomer Murders to Germany. The first two series of the murder mystery series, made by All3Media offshoot Bentley Productions, will be screened on public broadcaster ZDF. An eighth season of the programme, starring John ...
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Celador scores more brainiest success
Celador International has won further international success for its Brainiest? quiz show with a new format sale in Greece. Fremantle Media's Greek subsidiary has landed the commission to produce a 70 x 45-minute series plus a 90-minute final, which will be stripped through weekdays on ...
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Wark Clements in SPL co-pro with Setanta
Scottish indie Wark Clements will co-produce 38 Scottish Premier League matches each year for the next four years if its production partner Setanta Sports succeeds in securing exclusive rights to the games next week.
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NewsKerrang! tests in Manchester
Emap is to test Kerrang! Radio in Manchester on a restricted service licence (RSL) in preparation for the next swathe of FM licence bids.
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S&V wins ocean race
Indie Sunset & Vine has won the contract to produce and distribute the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race. The Television Corporation subsidiary, which also produces cricket for Channel 4 and other sports coverage broadcast around the world, will be the race's global television production partner, producing several hundred hours of programming. ...
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Green Bay scheme
Cardiff-based indie Green Bay Media is to join other Welsh production companies to launch a drama development fund, which will create a slate of film scripts for broadcasters, film financiers, distributors and investors. Wales' biggest production facilities group, Barcud Derwen, will co-finance the fund's start-up phase with Sgrin, the media ...
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BBC1 plans issue focused dramas
BBC1 has commissioned a factual drama exploring what would happen if London was attacked by a 'dirty' radiological bomb, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC1 banks on Spicer for daytime show
Self-made millionaire and TV antiques expert Lorne Spicer will attempt to boost the coffers of families around the country in a new daytime show for BBC1, writes Michael Rosser.
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S4C drama to celebrate Cardiff city
The director of British gangster film Rancid Aluminium is making a£1.5m Cardiff-based drama series for Welsh channel S4C, writes Michael Rosser.