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NewsITV pilots playalong quiz
ITV is piloting a playalong gameshow from NBC Universal International Studios based on popular app QuizUp.
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NewsIn brief: Blakeway; Cartoon Network
Channel 4 has commissioned a feature documentary about two of the world’s first transsexuals. while Cartoon Network has expanded its multiplatform presence.
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NewsGALLERY: Mipcom
Broadcast, Pact and UKTI braved the elements to celebrate the opening of Mipcom 2015.
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NewsVLV makes radical licence fee proposal
The Voice of the Listener and Viewer has called for the creation of a new organisation to set the level of the licence fee after the way in which July’s settlement was conducted “outraged” its members.
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NewsWalter Presents strikes major deals ahead of launch
Walter Presents (WP), the Channel 4-backed foreign language drama service, has acquired a raft of titles including Luc Besson’s No Limit and Swiss drama Ten.
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NewsSundanceTV grabs Last Panthers
US cable network SundanceTV has picked up Sky Atlantic’s big-budget heist drama The Last Panthers.
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NewsRepurposed RAF site to host Mammoth Screen production
Mammoth Screen’s ITV drama series Victoria will be the first production to shoot at new film and TV facility Yorkshire Studios.
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NewsSky Living secures The Catch & Limitless
Sky Living has picked up two US dramas – Shonda Rhimes’ The Catch and Limitless, the TV series based on the film starring Bradley Cooper.
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NewsPact launches 'one-stop shop' co-pro app
Pact has launched a “one-stop shop” app to make co-production arrangements easier for indies to negotiate, following a surge of international deals.
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NewsITV swoops for Robert Peston
ITV has swooped to hire BBC journalist Robert Peston as political editor and the host of a new political talk show.
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NewsMipcom makes push on screenings
Mipcom has ramped up its number of premiere screenings, which key visitors are attributing to a desire to ward off competition from film festivals moving into TV.
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NewsZig Zag strikes South African co-pro deal
Troy producer Zig Zag has struck a production partnership with South African indie Urban Brew Studios.
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NewsIndustry hit by Cannes floods
Mipcom 2015 is going ahead as planned despite flash flooding causing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage in Cannes.
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NewsHot Picks: The Five
Crime author Harlan Coben has sold more than 50 million books in more than 40 languages. Now he is hoping that his first attempt at an English-language TV drama can travel as far and wide.
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NewsHot Picks: The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience is a dark, voyeuristic drama based on fi lm director Steven Soderbergh’s controversial 2009 movie starring porn star Sasha Grey.
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NewsHot Picks: Trapped
Hollywood director Baltasar Kormákur is striving to turn Iceland, which has a population of just over 300,000, into the new Denmark and hopes that claustrophobic crime drama Trapped can help him do it.
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NewsHot Picks: The Last Panthers
Arctic crime drama Fortitude was a big success for Sky, both on Sky Atlantic in the UK and internationally. The pay-TV company is keen to follow that up with its next major original drama: The Last Panthers.
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NewsHot Picks: Beowulf
ITV has made no secret of its ambitions to crank up its family-oriented adventure slate, and it’s gone back to the classics for inspiration.
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NewsWorkflow Innovation Group to tour Germany
A group of technology providers is about to embark on a tour of Germany’s main media production hubs.
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NewsIn brief: Jeff Ford; Thinking Violets; Warp
Fox has handed Jeff Ford a promotion, while Remy Blumenfeld has hired an ITV Studios exec at Thinking Violets. Read on for more.