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    Granada International in wildlife deal

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...

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    Norway picks up fremantle formats

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...

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    I'd do anything to be remade for Romania

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 Saturday night show I'd Do Anything is be remade for Romanian audiences. Distraction Formats has brokered the deal with Prima TV for the TWI-owned format that challenges people to face their worst fears to win a prize for a loved one. The format has ...

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    Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...

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    Fox's FX picks up action sports docs

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Fox-owned FX's vice-president of broadcasting and marketing, Jason Thorp, has bought three action sports and adventure documentaries from indie Black Diamond. They are surfing documentaries Step in Liquid and The Endless Summer and Chlorine , ...

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    Pilger to look at British colony scandal

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...

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    Celador appoints interactive media chief

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Celador International has appointed Flextech TV's Simon Gunning to head its interactive media division. Gunning, formerly Flextech's head of business development and then controller of interactive programming, will seek out rights to third-party properties and develop commercial iTV solutions. He replaces Bruce Vandenburg who is setting up his own venture.

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    Channel 4 news wins second news Emmy

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 News won its second consecutive international Emmy for the best news programme outside the US. The ITN team picked up an award for its coverage of the Madrid bomb attacks in March. Also, former Carlton factual controller Richard Clemmow won a documentary Emmy for ...

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    Jowell lobbied over BBC Technology sale

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Broadcasting union Bectu met media secretary Tessa Jowell on Monday (13 September) to lobby against the proposed sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens. Jowell was said to have given a 'sympathetic hearing' to the union's concerns and wrote to the BBC on Tuesday asking for clarification on them. ...

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    Shine poaches BBC development exec

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Shine has appointed former BBC development executive Sara Brailsford as editor of features. Brailsford will work across Shine's features as well as taking on the role of series producer on new ITV show Best House Buy.

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    Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...

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    The digital deadline

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?

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    Unlikely bedfellows?

    2004-09-16T10:26:18Z

    To work for Diverse, the indie that prides itself on its ethnic mix, you need to pass the Vienna Test. Do you like Wiener schnitzel or have a soft spot for Kurt Waldheim? Then there's no place for you at Diverse. You also need to pass the test and understand ...

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    Ratings

    Steel River Blues struggles with 4.4m

    2004-09-16T11:21:12Z

    ITV1's last minute rescheduling failed to improve the performance of Steel River Blues as the drama series drew a lowly 4.4 million (19.8%).

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    PEER POLL: Programme formats

    2004-09-17T08:00:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is The X Factor a rip-off of Pop Idol ?

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    Wife Swap producer quits RDF

    2004-09-17T10:14:33Z

    The series producer of RDF's hit Channel 4 show Wife Swap has quit to join the indie behind C4 opera The Death Of Klinghoffer.

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    C4 books space for 14 new channels

    2004-09-17T10:23:43Z

    Channel 4 has signed a£55m deal with satellite operator SES that will enable it to launch around 14 new channels.

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    TWG lines up for Edinburgh FM

    2004-09-17T10:39:37Z

    The Wireless Group is to lock horns with the UK's biggest radio groups in the battle to win a new FM licence for Edinburgh.

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    Digital TV now in 55% of homes

    2004-09-17T10:53:01Z

    Digital TV is now in 55% of UK homes, with almost 4 million people taking Freeview.

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    Cherie Booth interview hits 2.1m

    2004-09-17T12:48:02Z

    Channel 4's Richard and Judy , which included Cherie Booth's first TV interview, hit a high of 2.1 million (17.3%).