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Kate Modern airs in-flight
Virgin Atlantic is to show Bebo’s online drama Kate Modern as part of its in-flight entertainment.
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Italian soccer on Babelgum
Babelgum has launched a Serie A Italian Football channel, offering highlights of Italy’s premier division.
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NewsRDF wins court battle against Clements
RDF has won its high court battle against Alan Clements to prevent the former employee from joining a rival until December 2008.
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NewsPact elects new council
Twofour chief executive Charles Wace has been elected as council chair at indie trade body Pact.
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NewsBBC doc to follow Olympic hopefuls
The BBC will transfer its A Child of Our Time format to a group of young athletes preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, revisiting them in a series of documentaries each year until the games.
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NewsDaily Cooks to return for fourth series
ITV has commissioned a fourth series of Daily Cooks fronted by Antony Worrall Thompson to air next spring.
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NewsBBC hunts new breed of doc makers
BBC New Talent has launched a competition to find three emerging documentary film makers for its BBC3 new talent strand, Fresh.
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College killings film for BBC
ORTV has been commissioned by BBC2 to make a 60-minute film to air in April 2008 to mark the one-year anniversary of the shootings this year at Virginia Tech in the US.
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Green light for Chart Show
C4 has ordered a fourth run of music series The Album Chart Show and a fifth summer live special of T4 on the Beach.
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NewsBBC retires in-house horse-racing coverage
The BBC will no longer have an in-house team for horse-racing coverage, following a decision to outsource coverage of the Grand National to indie Sunset + Vine.
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NewsShed to push Wall to Wall titles in US
Shed Media is to focus on growing brands such as Who Do You Think You Are? in the US, following the purchase of Wall to Wall.
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NewsC4 hires Bringing Up Baby producer
The executive producer of Channel 4’s controversial child-rearing series Bringing Up Baby has joined the broadcaster’s specialist factual commissioning team.
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NewsNew work placement scheme for Northerners
Three regional screen agencies have pooled their resources to launch a new work placement scheme for prospective television workers based in the North of England.
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NewsMixed fortunes at BBC1 as Hunt takes top job
The BBC1 ship looks to be in generally good shape at the moment but new captain Jay Hunt will have to stay alert to avoid turbulent tides next year.
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Sky One and RDF to remake US karaoke hit
Sky One has teamed up with RDF Television to make a UK version of hit US karaoke-style gameshow Don’t Forget the Lyrics.
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NewsITV lands controversial US drama series Dexter
ITV has snapped up the terrestrial rights for controversial US drama series Dexter after a successful first run on cable channel FX.
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NewsTV scandals see morale in industry plummet
This year’s spate of TV industry scandals has sent morale in the sector plunging, according to Broadcast’s Lifestyle Survey of more than 500 readers.
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NewsIndustry hails ‘popular’ Hunt as BBC1 controller
BBC staff and indie producers hailed Jay Hunt’s popular tastes and decisive commissioning style after the Five director of programmes was named BBC1 controller.
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NewsBBC rejects union talks after ballot
The BBC has responded to the National Union of Journalists, Bectu and Unite’s decision to ballot for strike action by refusing to meet them at a national level.