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  • News

    Hungary: Westernised market

    2009-03-25T18:07:51Z

    MipTV 09: With 4 million TV homes, Hungary is one of the most westernised markets in the region.

  • Ratings

    Where to put a US import

    2009-03-25T18:16:43Z

    The politics of peaktime force broadcasters to deploy acquisitions in strategic slots.

  • News

    Way clear for Shed MBO after chair steps down

    2009-03-25T18:25:41Z

    Shed Media's failed MBO could be back on the agenda after one of the key opponents to the price of the bid, non-executive chair Katherine Innes Ker, stepped down last week.

  • News

    ITV Global to offer Saturday Night Takeaway spin-off to rivals

    2009-03-25T18:32:29Z

    ITV wants to turn the flagship Win the Ads segment of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway into a standalone show - but hopes to sell it to a rival UK broadcaster.

  • News

    Mediaset to make pilot of RDF's Perfect Recall

    2009-03-25T18:46:25Z

    Channel 4 daytime quiz Perfect Recall is being remade for a foreign market for the first time after RDF Rights sold the format to Mediaset in Italy.

  • News

    Mentorn cuts to chase in cop show ‘coup' for Fox

    2009-03-25T18:55:26Z

    Mentorn USA has been commissioned by US cable network Fox Reality Channel to make a “high adrenaline” police car chase series.

  • News

    News Q&A: Steve Macallister

    2009-03-25T19:04:57Z

    Steve Macallister is managing director of BBC Worldwide sales and distribution.

  • News

    BBC1 Twins series enters nature or nurture debate

    2009-03-25T19:13:32Z

    BBC1 will push the boundaries of the nature/nurture debate in a landmark series about twins.

  • News

    No more Boys & Girls but C4 eyes parenting shows

    2009-03-25T19:18:50Z

    Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has ruled out a second series of the controversial Boys and Girls Alone, describing it as a “one-off stunt”.

  • News

    Bedell to select ITV team

    2009-03-25T19:23:47Z

    The process of reshaping ITV's entertainment commissioning team began this week with new director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell and director of television, channels and online Peter Fincham holding interviews from 26 March.

  • News

    FME buys 20% share of Wide-Eyed

    2009-03-25T19:27:18Z

    Wide-Eyed Entertainment, the CGI-specialist indie set up by Impossible Pictures founder Jasper James, has sold a 20% stake in the company to Fremantle Media Enterprises (FME).

  • News

    Ionoco wins gameshow deal

    2009-03-25T19:32:42Z

    Computer systems developer Ionoco has been named as the preferred technology supplier for 12 Yard Productions' gameshow format The Colour of Money.

  • News

    Hawking to crack cosmos for Discovery

    2009-03-25T19:34:56Z

    Darlow Smithson Productions has secured Stephen Hawking to front a major Discovery Channel series that aims to do for the universe what David Attenborough has done for natural history.

  • News

    Pepper spices up sound studio

    2009-03-25T19:36:20Z

    Law & Order UK post-facility Pepper is looking to bolster its feature film business with a£300,000 audio upgrade and the addition of three new senior creative staff.

  • News

    Farm to add third Soho Square Pro Tools suite

    2009-03-25T19:40:20Z

    The Farm Group is to add a third Pro Tools audio studio to its Soho headquarters.

  • News

    Multimedia briefs 27 March 2009

    2009-03-25T19:51:31Z

    Multimedia news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 27 March featuring BBC online, Babelgum, iPlayer and Balls of Steel.

  • News

    4iP looks at faster commissions

    2009-03-25T19:54:47Z

    Channel 4 and innovation funding body Nesta have devised a range of contract models designed to simplify and speed up the commissioning process for low-budget web projects.

  • News

    MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Kids

    2009-03-26T08:26:02Z

    The children's TV market is arguably the most competitive of all and broadcasters will be hunting as hard as ever for the next playground hit.

  • News

    MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Drama

    2009-03-26T08:29:34Z

    It's been a rocky two years for drama production on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • News

    MipTV 09: Hot Picks: Entertainment

    2009-03-26T08:32:13Z

    Like it or not, the global credit crunch is likely to be the topic of conversation among TV execs at this year's MipTV.