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An Oasis for BBC1's Fat Nation
OASIS TELEVISION has finished post-production on trails for the BBC's Fat Nation - The Big Challenge. The series focuses on one street in Birmingham and the attempts by its many residents to turn their lifestyles around over eight weeks. The challenge is to reduce ...
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Ready Steady Cook Jumps up
JUMP has designed and produced the opening titles for the latest series of the long-running cookery game show Ready Steady Cook. The titles pit a red pepper against a green tomato as they race against the clock around a kitchen. Senior designer Russell Hilliard ...
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Report notes rise of HDTV
HDTV is on the brink of mass market acceptance, according to an Informa report.
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Ricky's Animal instinct at Suite
CHARLOTTE STREET editing house Suite has cut Animals , the Ricky Gervais-led stand-up tour. The feature-length show follows the Golden Globe-winner's preparations and frustrations in the lead-up to the sell-out West End run of Animals , as well as showing ...
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Challenge bets on US co-pros
CHALLENGE, the Flextech entertainment channel, has signed a multimillion-pound co-production deal with new US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).
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The Contender fails to floor rival Champ
Mark Burnett, the British producer behind forthcoming NBC boxing show The Contender , has lost his first bid to block a rival show airing on Fox.
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C4 set to co-pro new Aussie soap
Channel 4 has teamed up with the maker of Australian soap Home and Away to co-produce a new teen soap.
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Basil brush heading for the US
Entertainment Rights is hunting for partners to bring children's character Basil Brush to US audiences. The company, which also owns the rights to Postman Pat, said the popular fox puppet would probably remain English with a supporting US cast. Entertainment Rights is meeting with studios and is unlikely to produce ...
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Skinner's Shane taken by Paramount
Paramount Comedy 2 has acquired Frank Skinner's ITV1 sitcom Shane and will screen the first series next year. The 7 x 30-minute comedy series, produced by Avalon Television, features Skinner as a wise-cracking minicab driver whose career and family life is slowly disintegrating. It will ...
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BBC Gnome rights go to Southern Star
Southern Star International has secured the international distribution rights to new BBC pre-school animated show Gordon the Garden Gnome. The 52 x 11-minute series, which follows the daily adventures of a garden gnome and his friends, is produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment and narrated ...
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More planet rock for Biography channel
The Biography Channel has picked up a further batch of Planet Rock profiles for a forthcoming music month. The deal, with Ireland-based indie Monster Distributes, will see profiles on musicians such as Moby, Air and Beyoncé air in October. The batch of 14 episodes marks ...
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Target poaches Celador's Eastaff
Celador International director of consumer products and marketing John Eastaff has been hired by distributor Target Entertainment. He will look to raise the profile of Target's portfolio, which includes Footballer's Wives and Bad Girls , as well as seeking opportunities ...
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Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing
Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...
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Thames signs up talent for ITV sitcom
Thames TV has assembled an established team of comedy talent including the writer of Murder Most Horrid for a new ITV1 sitcom.
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PlayStation inspires BBC weathermen
The BBC has turned to PlayStation-style technology to update its weather bulletins with a 3-D service that lets forecasters zoom around the country as if they were playing a computer game.
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Yentob undecided
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has still not decided whether to front the forthcoming BBC1 series A Picture of Britain , despite having been asked by channel controller Lorraine Heggessey in May. The 6 x 60-minute series, which will look at the relationship between different ...
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Ten Alps animation
Ten Alps, the indie part-owned by Bob Geldof, has won funding for its first animation series. Red Welly, the indie's CGI division, has received the money for pre-school show Scooba Zooba from the European Union Regional Development Fund. It will fund scripts, storyboards and a ...
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New Lion Scot head
Colin Cameron, who quit as the BBC's head of network development for nations and regions last month, is to head Lion Television's Scottish division. Cameron, who had been at the BBC for over 30 years, will take up his new role at the All3Media-owned indie on 1 September. His BBC ...
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Team GB boosts games audience
The BBC's extensive coverage of the Olympics has boosted the audience for both of its terrestrial channels.
