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Jailbirds sing for Century
Factual producer Century Films is following up its musical documentary about young offenders, Feltham Sings, with a project set in a women's prison.
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Sewell tours Italian landmarks for Five
Art critic Brian Sewell is to follow up his Naked Pilgrimseries for Five with a tour of Italy's most prominent art and architectural landmarks. Brian Sewell's Grand Tour of Italywill air this autumn over a 9 x 45-minute series. Kim Peat, controller ...
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Fulmar West to cover Hay-on-Wye
Cardiff-based indie Fulmar West has won a commission to cover the Hay-on-Wye literary festival for Channel 4. Fulmar will produce a 50-minute programme about an as-yet-unnamed contemporary writer and four short films to be shown in the Three Minute Wonderpost-news slot on Channel 4 in the run-up ...
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Five adds five to Britain's Worst list
Five has commissioned five new documentaries from indie Mentorn to extend its Britain's Worststrand. The hour-long specials, hosted by former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson, will highlight the nation's worst hairdresser, chef, boss, builder and teenager. Five commissioning editor Alex Sutherland has ordered the new programmes, ...
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Hopscotch analyses Iranian film for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Glasgow-based Hopscotch Films to make a slate of programming worth£250,000 to tie in with an upcoming Iranian film season. Shows include documentary Cinema Iranabout the country's recent film history and an as-yet-untitled documentary about Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The indie is also ...
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Done and Dusted to make T4 pop event
Done and Dusted has been commissioned to produce this year's T4 summer pop event. Previously called Popbeach, this summer's bash will be rebranded as T4 on the Beachand be broadcast from Weston Super Mare. Hamish Hamilton has been lined up to direct ...
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Commissioning Q&A: Clare Hollywood
The commissioning editor for Living TV is looking for the biggest paranormal idea ever to make the Flextech channel the undisputed home of supernatural programming
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Backroom staff first to go in cull
Last week's announcement of 1,730 job cuts was the biggest single round of redundancies in BBC history.
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Ofcom investigates C4 over sex scenes
Channel 4 is under investigation by Ofcom for showing scenes of penetrative sex in Danish director Lars von Trier's film The Idiotslast Monday (7 March). The movie, which appeared as part of the channel's Bannedseason about censorship, was shown without any editing ...
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Sit-up TV to hold four-minute auctions
Sit-Up TV is to launch another live shopping channel, Speed Auction TV, this summer. The channel will stage a series of high-speed auctions lasting for a maximum of four minutes with most auctions starting at just£1. It is hoped the fast-pace format, which will be available on Sky Digital and ...
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ITV to serve up primetime series on obesity
ITV has commissioned a primetime documentary series that will focus on Britain's first private obesity hospital.
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Disney announces Eisner's replacement
Walt Disney has named chief operating officer Robert Iger as the company's new chief executive, replacing Michael Eisner at the beginning of October. Eisner announced his intention to retire last September, sparking a prolonged selection process. It is understood that eBay chief executive Meg Whitman was also being considered for ...
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NTL admits threat from Freeview
NTL chief executive Simon Duffy admitted this week that customers were ditching cable services and taking up Freeview and its pay-TV offering, Top Up TV.
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BBC sets up documentaries forum
The BBC is to set up a documentaries forum to keep abreast of the latest trends in the genre. The BBC's director of factual and learning, John Willis, is set to unveil the bi-monthly in-house board at Broadcast's Factual Forum on Friday (18 March). It will comprise BBC documentary department ...
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Broadcast Young Talent Awards at NFT
Broadcasthas moved the venue of its Young Talent Awards ceremony in order to give the winners greater exposure.
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NewsBBC1 benefits from Red Nose '05
BBC1's celebrity singing contest Comic Relief Does Fame Academyproved once again to be a popular attraction, especially with younger viewers.
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BBC sale draws 70
The sale of BBC Broadcast has attracted interest from 70 companies. The deadline for registering interest closes on Monday (21 March). A BBC team led by director of business development Peter Philips will draw up a long list of bidders for the corporation's£150m playout and creative businesses by the first ...
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Two senior BBC execs go to Five
Five has poached two senior BBC executives to head its strategy and marketing departments as its gears up to tackle the increasing threat from multichannel.
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UBM 'prepares to sell Five stake'
United Business Media is reported to be on the verge of pulling out of terrestrial station Five, with plans to sell its 35% stake to majority shareholder RTL within the next few weeks.
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C4 seeks next science star
Channel 4 has launched a Pop Idol-style talent search to find a new star science presenter.