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    INFOGRAPHIC: ITVBe's impact on ITV2

    2015-04-24T12:39:00Z

    Female-skewing channel takes viewers away from ITV2, but helps grow ITV’s overall audience.

  • The Sound of Music Live!
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    ITV committed to live Sound of Music event

    2015-04-24T12:33:00Z

    ITV remains committed to celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music amid suggestions that it was originally eyeing an Easter TX date for the live extravaganza.

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    Mentorn hires former Betty head of features

    2015-04-24T12:33:00Z

    Mentorn Media has hired former Betty head of features David Emerson as head of formats and features, as well as making three other appointments.

  • Colette Foster
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    Remarkable managing director steps down

    2015-04-24T09:26:00Z

    Remarkable Television joint managing director Colette Foster is to step down after eight years with the company.

  • Churchill’s Toyshop
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    Discovery to examine Churchill's secret weapons

    2015-04-24T08:50:00Z

    The British bazooka and the limpet mine are among Winston Churchill’s secret military inventions to be explored in a documentary from Discovery and Sky Vision.

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    BBC closes 217 newsroom jobs

    2015-04-24T08:40:00Z

    BBC News has agreed voluntary redundancy deals with 176 staff following consultation with the broadcasting unions, while a further 41 senior managers and overseas staff will also leave.

  • Top Gear
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    Top Gear executive producer resigns

    2015-04-23T18:17:00Z

    Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman has resigned from the BBC a month after Jeremy Clarkson’s contract was not renewed.

  • John Bishop
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    John Bishop scores BBC1 variety show

    2015-04-23T15:55:00Z

    John Bishop is to a host a BBC1 Saturday night variety show from Hackney Empire.

  • Kellie Maloney
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    C5 follows Kellie Maloney transformation

    2015-04-23T13:07:00Z

    Initial is to follow the transformation of boxing promoter Kellie Maloney as she physically becomes a woman in a one-off film for Channel 5.

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    i-D lands first commission from C4

    2015-04-23T11:37:00Z

    Vice Media’s fashion magazine i-D has landed its first TV series, weeks after hiring Ravi Amaratungara as its head of video.

  • Stephanie Angelides
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    Leftfield hires Optomen exec

    2015-04-23T11:35:00Z

    Leftfield Entertainment has established a production company which will produce “smart and authentic” digital programming.

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    C4 News creates GIF wall

    2015-04-23T10:01:00Z

    Channel 4 has launched a news site that features short stories supported by shareable animated GIFs.

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    E4 shuts down for general election

    2015-04-23T09:54:00Z

    Channel 4 will shut down its youth-skewing digital channel E4 on the day of the general election to encourage young people to go out and vote.

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    Drone zone takes off at NAB

    2015-04-23T07:17:00Z

    Everywhere you looked in the Las Vegas Convention Centre there was a drone dangling from the top of a stand or hovering overhead.

  • Dave Cheesman
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    Sony sales boss joins WTS to head product channel

    2015-04-23T07:14:00Z

    Sony regional sales manager Dave Cheesman has joined WTS as the kit supplier and systems integrator’s first product channel manager.

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    C4 sets out model to grow games business

    2015-04-23T07:14:00Z

    Channel 4’s freshly launched games publishing arm is to take around a 15% share of revenue from developers’ apps to engineer a “win-win” situation in which it drives more traffic to its own titles.

  • Panasonic AG-DVX200
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    Holdan places order for 4K Panasonic camcorders

    2015-04-23T07:13:00Z

    UK distributor Holdan has snapped up Panasonic’s latest 4K camera.

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    Top executives to speak at Global TV Summit

    2015-04-23T07:12:00Z

    Jana Bennett, Wayne Garvie, Stephen Lambert and Andy Harries are some of the executives that will speak at Broadcast’s Global TV Summit on 3 June.

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    Newzoids

    2015-04-23T07:11:00Z

    Provide picture post for the satirical sketch show, which uses a mixture of low-tech traditional puppetry and state-of-the-art VFX and animation.

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    Safe House

    2015-04-23T07:09:00Z

    Picture post-production on the 4 x 60-minute drama series in which Christopher Eccleston stars as an ex-copper who turns his home into a police protection refuge.