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NewsIn brief: Animal Mums; Scott & Bailey; Ashes
ITV has ordered an animal doc and Scott & Bailey special, as Sky Sports reveals the size of its Ashes audience with England on the verge of victory in Edgbaston.
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NewsRow breaks out over C4's Muslim Drag Queens
A row has broken out over Channel 4 documentary Muslim Drag Queens, after the creator of a Guardian film with a similar title and subject area claimed to have been sidelined from the project.
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NewsEndemol Shine gaming arm completes MBO
Endemol Shine UK’s games developer Bossa Studios has completed a management buyout from the mega-indie.
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NewsBafta TV committee names new chair
An Idiot Abroad producer Krishnendu Majumdar has become chair of Bafta’s television committee.
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NewsAmazon hires European video chief
BT director of TV Alex Green is to become the European boss of Amazon Instant Video – the online service that yesterday struck a landmark deal with the former Top Gear team.
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NewsLiberty Global increases stake in ITV
Liberty Global has increased its stake in ITV to almost 10% but confirmed that it does not intend to make an offer to fully acquire the broadcaster.
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NewsViewer panel starts to inform C4 commissioning decisions
Data gathered from Channel 4’s viewer survey panel Core4 has started to help inform its commissioning and programme marketing decisions.
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NewsAndy Wilman lifts bonnet on Top Gear team’s Amazon deal
Andy Wilman has lifted the bonnet on the former Top Gear team’s landmark deal with Amazon Prime Video, explaining that they will be “left alone” to take the best of their old show and update it for a “new world” audience.
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NewsFive fast facts: Clarkson and co’s Amazon deal
Broadcast rounds up the key facts from the former Top Gear team’s landmark deal with Amazon Prime Video.
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NewsJohn Silver to leave Red House
John Silver, the creative and managing director of Red House TV, is leaving the company he established seven years ago.
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NewsMeirion Jones: BBC journalists behind Savile scandal ‘squeezed out’
Former BBC journalist Meirion Jones has claimed that he was “squeezed out” of the corporation along with several colleagues for attempting to expose the Jimmy Savile scandal.
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NewsFormer Top Gear team to make series for Amazon
Amazon Prime Video has emerged as the surprise home of the new motoring show from Jeremy Clarkson and his former Top Gear team.
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NewsORF opts for Crystal Vision kit for studio upgrade
Austrian national broadcaster ORF has awarded a contract to Crystal Vision to provide the core technical infrastructure for a major upgrade to the broadcaster’s studio RP3.
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NewsPett Television founder to produce Top Gear
Pett Television founder Lisa Clark is to replace Andy Wilman as the executive producer of Top Gear.
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NewsPaywizard secures £3.5m funding and appoints new chairman
Paywizard has secured £3.5m of funding to support the roll out of its pay TV subscriber management platform to emerging markets in Africa and South America.
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NewsBBC NHU buys two VariCams from Panasonic
The BBC Natural History Unit has taken delivery of two of Panasonic’s latest VariCam cameras.
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NewsC5 Football League show to use fully tapeless workflow
ITN Productions will use a new fully tapeless, data-driven workflow to deliver its Football League coverage for Channel 5.
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NewsItaly opens up to UK formats
Bigger commissioning appetites among Italian pay-TV broadcasters, including Sky and Discovery, are offering an increased opportunity for UK formats in the country, particularly shiny-floor shows and factual entertainment formats.
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NewsJim Pullin: a league of his own
Jim Pullin, the Bafta award-winning executive producer of A League Of Their Own, has died at the age of 57.
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NewsDeal Or No Deal banker’s indie wins first order
Possessed, the ITV Studios label set up by Deal Or No Deal banker Glenn Hugill, has won its first series commission and has assembled an executive team to create risk-taking formats.