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NewsYomego to supply avatars for MTV Flux
Glaswegian-based interactive company Yomego - which was responsible for creating a virtual Geoff Boycott for Five's website - has been commissioned to supply 3D avatars for new user-generated content channel MTV Flux.
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The Farm merges Squash into Uncle
The Farm Group's DVD arm, Squash, is moving out of its Soho premises and merging with Farm subsidiary Uncle in west London.
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Time Warner chief honoured by Mipcom
The chairman and chief executive of US media giant Time Warner, Richard Parsons, has been named TV personality of the year by Mipcom. He will be honoured in an industry event at the TV festival in Cannes on 11 October. Time Warner's businesses include cable network HBO, CNN owner Turner ...
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Target licenses Harry games
Target Entertainment has secured new licensing agreements for CCI Entertainment's pre-school show Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, which airs on Five in the UK. One deal is with Falcon Games for jigsaw puzzles, card and cardboard games, while the other with David Halsall ...
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ITV ties down Schofield for This Morning
ITV has agreed an exclusive two-year deal with presenter Phillip Schofield that will see him continue to host popular daytime series This Morning. The new deal will also see the former children's TV presenter front a new series of Dancing ...
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My Network shelves Love Island plans
The struggling LoveIslandformat has been dealt another blow with US broadcaster My Network TV ditching plans for an American version. The new Fox-owned terrestrial channel, which launches in September, had been developing the show with Granada America. It would have featured six American celebrities and ...
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UKTV snaps up US Food
UKTV and US lifestyle broadcaster Scripps Networks have signed an acquisitions deal for food-related programming.
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NAO to look at BBC
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has called in the taxpayers' watchdog to scrutinise the BBC's bid to raise the licence fee to£180.
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Ofcom survey
An Ofcom survey into current affairs programmes has found people watched more of the genre last year than they did five years ago. Bucking the suspicion that current affairs is on the wane, Ofcom found UK viewers watched an average 17 hours last year - four hours more than they ...
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Sky online boost
Sky has taken full control of web publishing company mykindaplace as part of the satellite group's strategy to expand its online presence and better serve teenage and over-45 audiences.
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Challenge to show Miss World 2006
Challenge has picked up the exclusive UK rights to the 56th Miss World 2006 competition - the second year running the event has failed to secure a terrestrial window.
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SNP demands meeting with BBC over cuts
The Scottish National Party has demanded a meeting with BBC director general Mark Thompson amid fears the corporation is planning a further 10% cutback, on top of the 15% already being pushed through in the country.
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Film4 scores a hit with free-to-air launch
Channel 4's movie channel Film Four received a massive boost in viewers when it was relaunched as a free-to-air channel under the name Film4 earlier this week.
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NewsBBC1's Stephen Lawrence doc gets 3.9m
BBC1's documentary on the unsolved murder of Stephen Lawrence gave the corporation a winning 3.9 million (20%) viewers at 9pm last night.
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NewsBBC sexes up Dracula for Christmas
The BBC has commissioned Granada to make a movie based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, which insiders say will be 'riddled with syphilis and sex'.
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NewsOfcom proposes big money spectrum charge
Ofcom is looking to impose a spectrum charge that would see terrestrial broadcasters paying millions of pounds in fees from 2014.
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In my view - RIP ToTP, ok?
Nostalgia may have kept Top of the Pops going long after its time waspast, says one of its producer/directors, Chris Cowey, but it was stillgreat fun.
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Ratings - Could ITV's pursuit of youth be its downfall?
What's ITV1 to do about 16 to 34-year-olds? Can't get a decentaudience when it makes programmes for them, can't ge...