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    GI takes Nat Geo's megastructures

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has picked up the rights to National Geographic's factual strand ...

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    Portman signs Robert Carlyle drama

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Portman Film & Television, the rights group recently taken over by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright, has signed up the distribution rights to Zenith Entertainment's new ITV1 drama Class of 76, starring Robert Carlyle.

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    Three deals for 12 Yard quiz format

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    12 Yard Productions has secured three new deals across Europe for its quiz show format ...

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    Raft of deals for Turn On Television

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Turn On Television has sold its The Real Coronation Streetto Living TV2. The series, first shown in the ITV Granada region, follows the lives of people who live on a real Coronation Street. The indie has also sold two series to Sky Travel. The first, 6 ...

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    Format focus: TV TRAP

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    A Candid Camera-style show, which has unwitting contestants taking part in spoof TV programmes. ...

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    Indies team up for Green drama

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Touchpaper TV has teamed up with actor Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, to make a family drama for an early evening slot on BBC1.

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    Spooks' Hawes to star in Ecosse drama for ITV1

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Ecosse Films, the indie behind BBC1 series ...

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    Reef wins BBC daytime order

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Indie Reef Television has been commissioned to produce 23 hours of daytime programming for the BBC focusing on property in foreign climes.

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    Dragon's Den to return in autumn

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    BBC2's Dragons' Denis to get a second run after being recommissioned. The 6 x 60-minute series is in pre-production and is due to go out in the autumn. It will follow a new group of budding business entrepreneurs as they pitch their ideas to a panel ...

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    BBC1 goes on the buses with Landmark

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The life of a London bus driver is being brought to the screen for a BBC1 documentary series. Big Red Bus(working title), by indie Landmark Films, follows the instructors as they put rookie drivers through their paces. The 8 x 30-minute series, due for transmission this ...

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    Doc to look at Egypt's sacred animals

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Parthenon Entertainment is making two 50-minute specials for Animal Planet to air early next year. Sacred Animals of the Pharaohsexamines what it meant to be a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. The show is being delivered in October. Phantom of Vietnamfollows a ...

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    Teachers' TV orders three new series

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Libra Television is making three series for Teachers' TV's autumn schedule . Ease the Loadis a 6 x 15-minute show for the General Zone, a magazine programme in which schools share ways of achieving a healthy work/life balance. Managing Inclusion is a 2 x ...

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    Commissioner's Q& A: Paul Welling

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    The vice-president and channel director, Discovery Home & Leisure and Discovery Travel & Living wants pitches for h...

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    C4 assigns more money to More4

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has increased the annual programming budget for its new free-to-air digital service More4 from£30m to£3...

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    Hit at centre of bidding war

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Hit Entertainment is set to find itself at the centre of a£500m bidding war as Canadian media group Lions Gate Entertainment prepares to make a takeover approach.

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    YooMedia in stategic deal for ViaVision

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Yoomedia, the interactive group headed by former BBC executive David Docherty has paid around£1.3m for ViaVision, the owner of Game-In TV, in a bid to expand its presence in the gaming industry.

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    US channel to co-pro second Nighty Night

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Oxygen, the US cable women's channel founded by chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, has stepped in to co-produce the second series of award-winning BBC comedy Nighty Night.

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    Amir Khan brings boxing back to ITV

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    ITV is to broadcast boxing for the first time in over 10 years, after it secured the rights to broadcast the rematch between Amir Khan and the man who beat him for the Olympic gold medal in Athens, Mario Kindelan. The bout, which takes place at the Reebok Stadium in ...

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    Emap in running to buy up all of SRH

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Emap, the owner of the Kiss and Magic radio networks, has admitted it is interested in acquiring all of Scottish Radio Holdings but has yet to make a formal approach. Over a year since Emap, publisher of Broadcast, bought 27.8% of SRH, Scotland's biggest commercial radio ...

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    Broadcasters to pay less for Ofcom

    2005-04-07T08:30:00Z

    Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year. The regulator said its 2005/6 budget would be around£133m - 5% lower than the£140m it was allocated for the year to 31 March 2005. Ofcom will also receive a£5m research grant ...