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Emap creates sexy look for FHM
Emap Performance Design along with creative agency UP has produced the identity package for the FHM music TV channel. The spots, which feature female models in suggestive poses while assuming male-centric jobs, were designed to fulfil FHM's core values: 'sexy, stylish and useful'. The promo was shot in a studio ...
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Sixfootsix produces ITVi promo
Sixfootsix has designed and produced a promo and branding package to push ITV's interactive games service. The newly created logo is used in each sequence tying itself in with the games that the red button service can provide, such as pool, darts and solitaire. Characters from the games also interact ...
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Aquarium dubs Beethoven
Aquarium has completed audio and online post on BBC documentary drama Beethoven. The 3 x 60-minute series, presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood, follows eyewitness accounts of Beethoven's life and legendary compositions. Audio recordings of Beethoven playing alongside an orchestra were made on set and passed on ...
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Target to distribute Imago output
Norwich-based indie Imago Productions has signed an exclusive three-year output deal with Target Entertainment.
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Five's supersize she gets US outing
Supersize She, Special Edition Films' documentary about female bodybuilding for Five, has been sold to TLC in the US as part of a series of sales tied up by RDF Rights. The indie has also shifted its BBC1 documentary series Windsor: The Queen's Castleto NRK Norway ...
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Worldwide sales for C4I disaster films
Channel 4 International has made a slew of international sales for Pioneer Productions' two disaster documentaries Krakatoaand The Wave That Shook the World. Krakatoa, a 60-minute film which aired on C4 in January, has been shifted to six ...
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Strawberry picks up real housewives
Distributor Strawberry Entertainment has picked up the international rights to Scarlet Television's Five show Real Life Desperate Housewives. The 60-minute show, which spotlights the lives of various 'privileged' British housewives, is set to air on Five next Thursday (9 June).
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Granada poaches senior BBC executive
Granada International has poached senior BBC acquisitions executive Helen Fox Gladwell to head its business affairs team. Currently BBC head of business and legal affairs programme acquisition, Fox Gladwell will report to Granada International chief Nadine Nohr. She will be joined by James Penny, who moves across from Granada's business ...
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Kudos wins first ITV work
Kudos, the indie behind BBC1 drama hits Spooksand Hustle, has secured its first ITV commission with a psychological thriller.
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Films of Record follows girl cops
The BBC has commissioned Films of Record to make two ambitious fly-on-the-wall documentary series, charting the lives of women police officers and prison staff.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Jill Offman
The senior vice-president of Discovery and Developing Networks is constantly on the lookout for trademark shows, as she attempts to stamp more personality on the network
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Brian Waddell profiles movie cars
Northern Ireland indie Brian Waddell Productions has been commissioned by Sky One to make a two-hour clip show called Movies' Greatest Cars. The show will feature famous vehicles such as the BullittFord Mustang, Goldfinger's Aston Martin, ...
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McCutcheon and Malik pair off
Martine McCutcheon and Art Malik are to team up for an ITV1 multicultural love story, in which a young working-class girl becomes one of the three wives of a Persian restaurateur. The English Harem, a 120-minute film, is being made by Feelgood Fiction and goes into ...
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Blunkett drama kicks off More4
Channel 4 is launching its new More4 service in October with a satire on the life of David Blunkett. A Very Social Secretary, a one-off 90-minute drama from indie Mentorn, will follow Blunkett's recent past as a Cabinet minister, focusing on events surrounding his affair with ...
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UKTV doles out property show cash
Brighton-based Maverik Motion Pictures is about to go into production with a property show for UKTV Style. The 15 x 30-minute series, In Grand Style, focuses on first-time buyers in the Brighton and Hove area, who are given£1,000 and 36 hours to kit out their new ...
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Lobby groups hit out at sponsorship rules
TV lobby group the Voice of the Listener and Viewer has accused Ofcom of debasing standards in television and radio with its latest swathe of relaxations to rules on sponsorship and commercial references.
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Freudenstein insists new jobs will offset cuts at Sky
BSkyB's chief operating officer, Richard Freudenstein, has insisted that the satellite broadcaster is set to increase its overall headcount as it bids to get 10 million subscribers by 2010 - despite imminent job cuts in departments such as finance and marketing.
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Shed profits rise
Shed Productions has released its first results since the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market, showing profits up 209% to£2.8m. The results covering the six months to the end of February show that turnover is up 98% to£11.9m from£6m in 2004 and operating profit increased to 18.9%. The company ...
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C4 in Freeview slot
Crown Castle has confirmed that Channel 4 has won the last available slot on Freeview after bidding over£5m for a space on the digital terrestrial platform. C4 was awarded the slot on Multiplex C last month but has been awaiting approval from other broadcasters. The contract gives C4 the space ...
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Sky One to co-pro
Sky One has signed on as a co-production partner with CBS Paramount for two series of new sci-fi drama Threshold. The one-hour thriller series follows a team of experts who are brought together when the US Navy discovers an extraterrestrial craft has landed in the Atlantic ...