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Babelgum to air Encounters
Online TV network Babelgum is to screen films shown as part of Bristol’s Encounters short film festival this month.
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NewsSkinkers secures venture funding
Live video streaming specialist Skinkers is gearing up to launch its latest platform, which will offer linear TV programming online, after securing $16m (£8m) in funding.
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NewsC4 and Kew plan online cures guide
Channel 4 has teamed up with Kew Gardens to build an online repository of alternative medicines and folklore cures to accompany its upcoming documentary Medicine Men.
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NewsC4’s First Cut airs new talent
Channel 4 is lining up films from Raw Television, Century Films, Talkback Thames, Renegade Pictures and Eleven Films for its new primetime documentary strand for up-and-coming directors.
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NewsBBC Horizon explores execution
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo is to hunt for a humane method of execution in an edition of the BBC’s science strand Horizon.
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NewsBewitched set for UK remake
Cult US 1960s sitcom Bewitched is set for a British makeover by My Hero creator Paul Mendelson.
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NewsSouthern Africa channel launch
Southern Africa Direct, a new free-to-air lifestyle TV channel, is planning its first round of commissioning in the new year.
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NewsITV to celebrate Friday Night Live
ITV is to mark the 20th anniversary of the Channel 4 Saturday/Friday Night Live shows with a one-off production.
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NewsMcLoughlin to star in Xmas show as part of ITV deal
Coleen McLoughlin will make her first appearance since signing a presenting deal with ITV on Star Traders: the Christmas Challenge.
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NewsRight to Reply-style strand returns to C4
Viewers will be able to put questions to Channel 4 from next month in a successor to Right to Reply fronted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
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NewsBBC3 orders spooky drama
BBC3 has commissioned a one-off comedy drama about a flatshare between a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost.
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NewsCarbon’s Jump series to go global
The indie behind Channel 4 documentaries Jump London and Jump Britain is to take the format to the global stage after signing a co-production deal with Lonely Planet.
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NewsGatiss and Davies lead Red Planet into comedy
Tony Jordan’s indie, Red Planet Pictures, is set to make its first foray into comedy and has teamed up with writer-performers Mark Gatiss and Julia Davies on its first project.
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NewsGreen renews RTE contract
Green Inc Film and Television has been ordered to make a further 220 hours of magazine programme The Afternoon Show by RTE.
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NewsBrailsford is new Shine features chief
Shine has promoted features editor Sara Brailsford to take over as head of features from John Silver, who is leaving at the end of the year to set up his own indie.
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NewsNHU sets off on new Expeditions
BBC1 is to examine the landscapes and wildlife of Guyana and Papua New Guinea in two major new series for its Expedition strand.
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NewsDoc to follow lives of teens in Baghdad
BBC2 is to follow four ordinary Iraqi boys as they come of age in Baghdad for a feature-length documentary from Renegade Pictures and StorylabTV.
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NewsC4 develops comedy pilots
Channel 4 comedy pilots Plus One and The Kevin Bishop Show are to be turned into full series next year after debuting last month in the Comedy Showcase strand.
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NewsMore swap shows on cards
Channel 4 has ordered 10 new episodes of Wife Swap and two of Celebrity Wife Swap from RDF Television.
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NewsFountain invests
Fountain Television has purchased a ProBel Sirius 256 x 256 high-definition router