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Movie series on Five
Five has commissioned a 6 x 60-minute series listing the 40 greatest movies by genre. Each programme will cover a different genre and films will be voted for through Five's website and by readers of Times Online. The programme, produced by indie Diverse, was commissioned by Five controller of pop ...
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C4 airs Kiss Awards
Channel 4 has picked up the rights to the first ever Kiss Awards on 5 November, filmed by indie Done and Dusted. The Kiss awards from Emap Radio, which also publishes Broadcast, will showcase the best in urban and dance music over the past 12 months. ...
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Radio 1 sexes it up
BBC Radio 1 has teamed up with the Open University (OU) for the first time for a series of live broadcasts of phone-in show The Sunday Surgery, called The Sex Tour. The show will broadcast from Wrexham, Glasgow, Sunderland and Derry on ...
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Oliver at news helm
ITV News associate editor Craig Oliver has been promoted to the newly created role of head of network programmes. The new brief, which is effective immediately, will see Oliver continue to oversee editorial, production and management issues for ITV1 News but he will now take on additional responsibility for interactive ...
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True Vision Emmy
True Vision Productions snared its sixth Emmy at the 26th Annual News and Documentary Awards ceremony in New York this week. The London-based indie's documentary Reporters at War, which aired on Discovery, triumphed in the historical programming category. International video agency AP Television News (APTN) celebrated ...
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NewsSky Three to launch on Freeview
BSkyB is launching Sky Three, a new Freeview channel that will showcase content from Sky One.
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Kilgarriff calls time on Turner stint
Richard Kilgarriff is leaving his job as senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Europe at the end of the month. Kilgarriff has been with Turner in various roles for four years, most recently responsible for all the company's UK entertainment channels including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Turner Classic ...
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FilmFlex names Sky veteran Keyte as MD
Movie-on-demand service FilmFlex has appointed former BSkyB executive Andrew Keyte as its first managing director. Keyte, who was the general manager of Sky's 11 movie channels until 1999, has been brought on board to spearhead the region-by-region roll-out of the group's VoD service on NTL and Telewest. He begins on ...
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Pye leaves SPTI for non-exec roles
Chris Pye, vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), has quit. He will leave at the end of the year and is unlikely to be replaced. He told Broadcast he had decided to take up a series of non-executive director roles in the independent sector and hopes ...
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Target: distribution profits£880,000
Following last week's Distributors Survey ( Broadcast, 16.9.05), Target has asked us to make clear that the profit and loss figures published in the table did not relate to its distribution business. Target's programme distribution business made a profit of£880,000 on a turnover of£6m last year. We ...
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Sky chief calls for relaxation of media rules
BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch has branded the European Commission's (EC) proposals to tighten media regulations as 'doomed.'
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NewsPEER POLL: GCap
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Was GCap right to end the double act of David Mansfield and Ralph Bernard?
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NewsMobile TV firms lobby Ofcom
Companies backing the Oxford mobile TV trial hope the launch of the initiative next week will finally persuade Ofcom to officially licence the service.
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Production - On Location - Wandering souls.
Director Richard Parry found himself wrestling with his conscience when tragedy struck during the filming of a series about the lives and legal wrangles of the travelling community.
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What the critics said: Afterlife
ITV's latest offering for Saturday nights is the much-hyped paranormal drama Afterlife, and the first installment divided the critics, writes Belinda Williams.
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NewsRadio 1 rapped for foul-mouthed tirade
BBC Radio 1 has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting a barrage of expletives at 7pm.
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NewsNTL in IPTV trial
NTL is launching a TV over broadband trial service featuring content from MTV, Turner, ITN and UKTV.
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NewsDisney pinches Nick exec
Disney has poached Nickelodeon executive Paul O'Higgins to oversee its on and off-air marketing across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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BKN outsources production to India
Aim-listed children's entertainment company BKN has struck a $10m deal with Indian animation studio UTV Toonz, to handle production of its 26-episode 3D series Kong The Next Generationand another yet to be titled series.
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NewsNick UK picks up Decode's Sadie
Nickelodeon UK has picked up a further 26 episodes of Decode Entertainment's live action series, Naturally Sadie.