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NewsHegarty joins Talent
Indie Talent Television has poached Talkback Thames executive producer Nichola Hegarty to produce its latest Test the Nation programme. Hegarty, who worked on Bring Your Husband to Heel and The Jack Osbourne Show for Talkback, ...
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Monkey swings development deal
BBC Worldwide's indie unit has signed a development deal with Monkey, creator of Five comedy series Swinging.
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Target opens LA office to drive push into US
UK producer and distributor Target Entertainment has signalled an increased focus on the US market by opening a Los Angeles office and poaching a Granada executive to run it.
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Format focus: Class of 07
A new European format from the creators of The Farmtransforms high school drop-outs into top students.
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Minotaur swoops for latest Kudos drama
Flextech-owned distributor Minotaur has scored a coup by scooping the exclusive international rights to new BBC1 Kudos drama The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. BBC Worldwide has traditionally distributed series for the indie, including Spooksand Hustlefor which ...
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GI to take care of Films of Record docs
Granada International has signed a deal with Roger Graef's indie Films of Record to distribute four of its new documentaries. The distributor will sell the BBC series Girl Cops(8 x 29 minutes), Chinatown(3 x 59 minutes) and ...
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The Simpsons safe for another two runs
The Simpsons has received a two-season renewal deal that will keep the cartoon on air until at least 2008. The Fox network in the US has signed up The Simpsons, which airs on Sky One and Channel 4 in the ...
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Two Four makes flower top 10 for UKTV
UKTV Style Gardens has commissioned Two Four Broadcast to produce 10 x 30-minute series Nation's Favourite Bloom. Presented by Joe Swift, votes will be cast for categories including flowering bulbs, flowering shrub or tree and exotic/jungle plant. The survey is to be conducted jointly by ...
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Sam Brick lands first series order
Former September Films USA chief Sam Brick has landed her first series order with a Living TV show about overweight kids. Chubby Children is a 6 x 60-minute series which employs the services of obesity expert Professor Paul Gately to help the youngsters fight the ...
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Staff fear BBC has lost interest in single docs
BBC Factual staff have voiced concerns that the corporation is pulling away from hard-hitting documentaries after it emerged the corporation's London documentaries department now has just two executive producers.
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NBC launches US version of Teachers
After months of development, US broadcast network NBC launches the American version of Teachersnext Tuesday (28 March) at 9.30pm. The 30-minute traditional sitcom - produced by NBC Universal Television Studios - is based on the hour-long Tiger Aspect comedy drama of the same name, which ...
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Weakest Link team develop ITV gameshow
Paul Jackson and David Young, the duo behind Weakest Link, have reunited to create a new big money quiz show for ITV.
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Radio men's new role
Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) and Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) chiefs Paul Brown and Douglas McArthur have secured senior roles at the new RadioCentre, with McArthur becoming RAB non-executive chairman and Brown chairing the RadioCentre board. The RadioCentre will incorporate both the CRCA and the RAB, bringing together their marketing, ...
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Quirke to play embezzling nun for BBC2
Former Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke is to play a criminal ex-nun in a BBC2 docu-drama from indie Firefly. She stars as Colleen McCabe, a former nun who embezzled£500,000 as headmistress of a school in south-east London. Indie Firefly has turned the tale ...
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Steadfast launches production arm
Steadfast Television, the company established by former TV Corp executives Charles Thompson and Chris Rowlands to develop factual entertainment shows, has set up a production arm and appointed Sunset + Vine executive producer Simon Potter to run it. Potter, who developed Five's late-night sport block, will head the new division, ...
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ITV1 orders phobia doc from Landmark
ITV1 has ordered a 60-minute documentary from Landmark Films as part of its Scared to Death season, looking at the psyches of phobics. Scared to Death: Phobia Britain will explore what life as a sufferer of phobias is like, and ...
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NewsTaggart returns with 5.4m
ITV1's latest Taggartdrama failed to defeat BBC1's live FA Cup action at 9pm with 5.4 million (23.9%).
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NewsUniversal launches film download service
US studio Universal Pictures has announced it will launch the world's first download-to-own movie service in the UK next month, with TV programmes also set to become part of the offering.
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NewsTrench warfare in the battle of rights
Pact and the broadcasters remain poles apart in their battle over new media rights with both sides digging in and the prospect of reaching a consensus looks impossible.
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NewsPEER POLL: Super-indies
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should super-indies be excluded from the 25% indie quota?