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New-look This Is Your Life brings red book back to TV
SMG TV Productions is set to revive classic entertainment show This Is Your Life, following a deal with rights holder Click TV, which is part of Portman Film and TV, the company majority owned by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright.
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Endemol teams up with MobiTV for mobile channel
Endemol UK has teamed up with mobile broadcasting platform MobiTV to launch the Reality TV channel on Orange's telecoms network.
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CBBC orders London bomb drama
Hat trick is to make a children's drama documentary about the 7 July London bombings - the first UK television drama to be made about the tragedy and the indie's first commission for CBBC.
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Sex Traffic producer heads for Kudos role
Granada producer Derek Wax, the man behind multi-award winning drama Sex Traffic,is joining Spooksproducer Kudos Film and Television as an executive producer.
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NewsPlowman to set up BBC comedy board
Jon Plowman, the BBC's head of comedy entertainment, is to take over as head of the corporation's in-house comedy department, and has set up a new board to develop programmes.
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NewsPickard stays as head of ITV1 programming
Nigel Pickard has told ITV chiefs that he is staying on as ITV1's director of programmes, despite the restructure at network centre two weeks ago that brought in Simon Shaps above him.
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NewsITV could drop News for lads channel
ITV is considering pulling the ITV News Channel off Freeview in a bid to keep lads channel Men and Motors on the digital terrestrial platform.
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NewsCreation of a cable giant
NTL and Telewest tied the knot this week in a landmark merger aimed at boosting the pair's ability to take on rivals BSkyB and BT.
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NewsBBC editing move to cost facilities£18m
One of the BBC's biggest production departments, factual and learning, has announced plans to take 75% of all post work in-house by 2007, in a move that could cost the UK facilities sector up to£18m in revenues.
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Blindfolded by C4
Channel 4 should not be embarrassed that More4 offers entertainment of a cerebral rather than a carnal nature.
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A flair for nurturing talent
Nicknamed by ex-boss Lorraine Heggessey Mrs Fix-it, Sally Debonnaire has moved to Avalon where she hopes to get back to the creative side of things.
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Tangled web of rights
With the rapid rise of download technology, broadcasters and producers agree the old model of primary rights is outdated. Now the fur is flying over how valuable online rights should be divided.
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Hitting the spot
Men's channel Bravo is hoping its hefty investment in Ultimate Fighting Championship, a brutal mixed martial arts contest, will pay off by creating cult viewing which lifts the channel out of its niche.
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Making drama out of history
The autumn schedule is awash with a royal flush of monarchical drama - but how much of a dramatic licence should programme-makers use when portraying well-documented historical figures? Meg Carter looks at the key ingredients and skills needed for producing historical drama.
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Me and Greg Dyke's mum
Dawn Airey finds herself uncomfortable with the level of compulsion involved in the government's digital switchover plan.
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Exploring new territory
On the eve of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Danny Cohen considers what the genre has to do to compete with technological change and expanding choice.
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Half of BBC docs execs to be culled
The BBC's documentaries and contemporary factual (D&CF) department is to lose up to half of its executive producers as a result of director general Mark Thompson's drive to cut more than 420 posts in the factual division.
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Nagra joins Maverick as exec producer
Former BBC head of Asian programmes Tommy Nagra is to join Birmingham-based indie Maverick as an executive producer for specialist factual programmes.
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Trouble hires BBC exec to lead rebrand
Flextech has hired former BBC senior commissioning executive for factual Celia Taylor as deputy channel controller, Challenge and Trouble.
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Transend picks up dating show
Transend, the joint-venture between sports producer TWI and Hollywood talent agency Endeavor which launched last week, has picked up the format to The Big Date.