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    Firecracker looks at steroid abuse

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Firecracker Films is to follow up its Five show The World's Strongest Boywith three commissions for the broadcaster including a documentary exploring the misuse of steroids.

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    Devilfish breaks news for CNN

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast agency Devilfish has just completed a promotional film for CNN mobile service CNN Mobile. The 30-second spot was created using a new technique that treats still photographs as a 3D space. It depicts a series of locations, including a golf course, where mobile phone users could watch breaking news ...

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    Bands compete on MTV for slot with Anastacia

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    MTV has commissioned a new talent trawl show in which 10 unsigned European bands get to compete for a warm-up slot on pop star Anastacia's European tour.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Crispin Nieboer

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    The founder and chief executive of the Poker Channel says that although the channel is dedicated to the card game, it is willing to branch out into backgammon and maybe even bingo.

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    Jelly explores Coast for BBC2

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Jelly Television has created branding, titles and programme content for BBC2 factual series Coast. The show explores the British coastline using CGI to recreate historic events, such as the building of the Titanic and Britannia Bridge. Creative director Jan Golunski and designer Paul Clements designed and ...

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    Living orders live Dead Famous

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Living TV has commissioned the first live version of its paranormal series Dead Famous. Dead Famous Livewill be broadcast over three nights from LA from 11 to 13 November and feature the show's presenters, Gail Porter and Chris Fleming, as well as guest ...

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    Talent TV wins R4 current affairs order

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Indie Talent TV has won its first current affairs commission from Radio 4. Talent is to make Mr Ambassador- a 2 x 15-minute programme based around the personal essays of the EU's ambassador to the US, John Bruton. The commission, from Radio 4's commissioning editor for ...

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    Target takes over Jordan and Peter show

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment is set to produce a follow-up to ITV2's hit show Jordan and Peter: Laid Bare, with Can Associates, the company run by the celebrity couple's agents. The deal comes after the previous co-producer of the show, Spun Gold, clashed with the pair's agents on ...

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    Peter Williams traces wartime lovers

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Six wartime love stories are to be retold in a regional series being made by indie Peter Williams Television for ITV Meridian. The indie has researched a group of second world war love affairs for the 6 x 30-minute series with the help of the Imperial War Museum,

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    European deal for Paradise Hotel

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Paradise Hotel, Mentorn's beachside reality show, is set to be made for viewers in Belgium and the Netherlands following a deal with SBS.

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    RDFR pays annual fee for Blast! Films product

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    RDF Rights has inked a two-year distribution deal with Blast! Films giving it first look at all international TV and consumer product rights.

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    Love cosies up with Target

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Love Productions, the indie set up by former Maverick managing director Richard McKerrow, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Target Entertainment.

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    Fremantle gains dinosaur show

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle Media has signed up the rights to Prehistoric Park, the new Jurassic Park-style ITV1 natural history show from the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs.

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    Format focus:Intervention

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    After makeovers and diet shows galore, TV turns its attention to alcoholics and drug addicts.

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    Orion TV auction shows sold on

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Orion TV has shifted its ITV daytime hits Bootsale Challenge(pictured) and Trading Treasuresto broadcasters in Denmark and Australia. Denmark's TV2 Charlie has taken 30 episodes of each show while Australia's How To network has taken 30 episodes of ...

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    Century sells Feltham sings to Australia

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Century Films has sold its Bafta-winning documentary Feltham Singsto Australian broadcaster SBS, as part of a trio of deals. Australian public broadcaster SBS has also acquired Pornography The Musical, the indie's 2003 Channel 4 film, which looked at the UK's porn industry, ...

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    BBC bags golf's british open until 2011

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has secured the rights to The Open until 2011, after extending its deal with golf's world rules and development body, the R&A. The new five-year deal, which starts at the end of the BBC's existing deal in 2006, includes TV rights to the Walker Cup and the live ...

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    PBS to show Tern's fishing documentary

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Scottish indie Tern Television has negotiated its first international deal with US broadcaster PBS, selling its documentary on the Scottish fishing industry. Gutted, which follows a year in the lives of fishing families in Fraserburgh, will be shown on PBS's Wide Anglein ...

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    Avalon hires fox exec to head us arm

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    Avalon, the UK indie and PR firm behind Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, has named Fox Television Studios executive David Martin as president of its US operations. Martin will develop original scripted comedy and dramas using the company's comedy formats and talent. He has been with Fox ...

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    Salmon poaches ex-BBC children's drama head

    2005-07-21T08:30:00Z

    TV Corp's new chief executive, Peter Salmon, has made his first hiring, snapping up the BBC's former head of children's drama Elaine Sperber.