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Format focus: Ranking the Stars
Hot on the heels of Five's Hot Tub Ranking comes a similar Japanese format using using low-grade celebrities.
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VTM and RTL snap up dinners and sex
Jamie's School Dinners (Fresh One Productions) and The Sex Inspectors (Talkback) have been picked up by Dutch and Belgian broadcasters as part of a series of deals by Fremantle International Distribution. The distributor has sold both shows to Flemish station VTM Belgium and Dutch broadcaster RTL Netherlands. RTL Netherlands has ...
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Top Gear drives down under
BBC Worldwide Australasia has licensed two series of Top Gear to Australian public broadcaster SBS. The Jeremy Clarkson-hosted motoring show already screens in Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Russia, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, the Philippines and Israel and on global channels BBC Prime, BBC Asia and BBC Japan.
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3DD launches indie joint-venture
Distributor 3DD Entertainment, which sells footage from Robbie Williams and U2, is moving into TV production. The company has set up a new joint-venture, 3DD Productions, with former Clear Channel Entertainment producer Andrew Higgie. The indie, which plans to specialise in sport, music and entertainment, has already landed two one-off ...
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C4I to distribute Mckenna series
Channel 4 International has secured worldwide distribution rights outside Australia to the 8 x 30-minute Sky One series Paul McKenna: I Can Change Your Life. Producer Tiger Aspect has already sold the factual entertainment series directly to Channel Nine in Australia. C4I has also secured the rights to Century documentary ...
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Abbey sells wide eye to germany
Abbey Home Media Group's animated pre-school series Wide Eye has been picked up by German children's channel Ki.Ka. Co-produced with the BBC and made by King Rollo Films, the 26 x 10-minute series is already airing on CBeebies in the UK and has been licensed to a number of other ...
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Rajars bring bad tidings for GCap
Capital 95.8's fall from the London top spot in last week's quarterly Rajar results was the latest in a string of headaches for Ralph Bernard, chief executive of parent company GCap Media.
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Theakston closes on Capital's Vaughan
Heart 106.2's Jamie Theakston is closing on London's leading commercial breakfast show, Johnny Vaughan on Capital 95.8, with the gap between them now just 10,000 listeners. Theakston added 163,000 listeners, reaching 883,000, while Vaughan lost 184,000, falling to 893,000 over the three-month period. Today on BBC Radio 4 remains the ...
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BBC radio gets highest ever share
The BBC recorded its highest ever share of listening, up to 54.6%, compared with commercial radio's 43.5%. Radio 1 had 10.3 million listeners and a 9.4% share, while Radio 2 remains the country's most popular national station with 12.9 million listeners and a 15.6% share, down slightly on the last ...
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Talksport loses listeners
GCap's Classic FM is the country's most popular national commercial station, with a 4.1% share, but audience numbers fell by 7.4% from the previous quarter to 5.8 million. Talksport, owned by UTV Radio, saw a fall in audience numbers from the previous quarter down to 2.1 million, but maintained its ...
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Boost for digital stations
Rajar reported that a fifth of UK adults listened to radio via DTV at least once a week. Digital only stations now have a collective reach of 4.1 million. The BBC's digital stations Five Live Sports Extra, BBC 7, 1Xtra and the Asian Network all recorded record reach, with increased ...
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Living grows output with Haunted spin-offs
Living TV is growing its in-house produced output with two Most Haunted spin-off shows.
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Emap moves into call TV
Emap is moving into call TV with the launch of a live daily branded block on music channel The Hits.
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New indie to use links with sports stars
A former Goldman Sachs executive has launched a television production company to provide new revenue streams for high-profile sporting clients of his -financial services business.
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Channel 4viewers gave a warm reception to Des Lynam as the new presenter of Countdown.
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Diverse develops
Celador development executive Anna Richardson has joined Diverse to oversee development of features programming. Richardson has worked in front of and behind the camera, hosting shows including BBC1's Maternity Hospital and developing popular series including C4's You Are What You Eat. Recent Diverse productions in the genre include BBC2's The ...
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Broadcasting house loses architect
The group developing BBC Broadcasting House has ditched the architect in charge over 'creative differences'. The BBC, along with builders Bovis Lend Lease and developers Land Securities, decided not to continue working with architectural firm MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP), headed by Sir Richard MacCormac. He had mapped out the second ...
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Blaze develops us version of CD:UK
Blaze Television has signed a deal with US multichannel operator DirecTV to produce an American version of ITV1 pop show CD:UK. DirecTV has picked up a 60-minute show for 52 weeks with an option for a further two years. CD:USA will launch at 11am on Saturday mornings from January and ...
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ITV on the acquisition trail
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said this week he was close to making a series of acquisitions. 'We will grow organically through our existing business and also through acquisitions of which we will be announcing some imminently. We will look to distribute our content over all available platforms,' he ...
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World Service changes under discussion
Broadcasting unions will sit down with BBC bosses next week to try to reduce the number of World Service staff set to be axed. Around 230 are expected to go as a result of the World Service's plans to set up a£19m-a-year Arabic TV channel, its first TV station. In ...