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NewsMilkshake cooks up Shane The Chef
Channel 5 is cooking up more original kids commissions with a 52-part animated chef comedy from Cloudbabies indie Hoho Entertainment.
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NewsIn brief: Challenge Cup; Tern; Apple; TVF; The Fall
The BBC has agreed a deal with the Rugby Football League to extend its coverage until 2020, while Channel 4 has handed a Tern daytime format a primetime commission.
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NewsCreative England / eOne JV hires drama chief
Former Holby City producer Polly Williams is to lead drama development for distributor Entertainment One (eOne) and Creative England’s new joint venture.
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NewsTony Hall ‘mulling radical cost-cutting plans’
Tony Hall is mulling plans to cut a further 3,000 BBC jobs, close two minor TV or radio stations and increase repeats on BBC1 and BBC2, aaccording to The Sunday Times.
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NewsTop 100 network programmes: 17 - 23 August 2015
The Scandalous Lady W on BBC2 seduced viewers from ITV’s Travel Guides and C4’s Police Custody
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NewsBBCW commissions YouTube duo
BBC Worldwide has partnered with YouTube talent Caspar Lee and Joe Sugg to produce a feature-length programme overseen by the team behind the Top Gear specials.
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NewsVice News condemns arrest of filmmakers in Turkey
Vice News has condemned the Turkish government after two of its reporters were charged with terrorist offences.
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NewsFremantle to distribute Kudos' Capital
Fremantle Media International has picked up the global rights to Kudos-produced BBC1 drama Capital.
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NewsEVS to show off IP production tools in Amsterdam
IBC 2015: EVS will use this year’s IBC to demo the company’s IP-based live production solutions, including content contribution between venue and studio and remote production operations.
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Visual Data upgrades UK and US tape storage
Digital media supply chain specialist Visual Data Media Services (VDMS) has upgraded its facilities in London and Los Angeles.
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NewsJay Hunt: consolidation can hurt indie creativity
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has claimed that growing consolidation in the indie sector has had a negative impact on creativity.
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NewsDanny Cohen: all BBC TV channels face cuts
Danny Cohen has guaranteed that BBC2 will not be closed down, but warned that all of the corporation’s television channels will face cuts following its funding deal.
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NewsC4 drama to explore historic sex abuse
George Faber is to produce a Channel 4 drama series which will explore the impact on a fictional public figure after they are accused of historical sexual misconduct.
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NewsBBC2 heads to Leningrad & Versailles
BBC2 has acquired Versailles, the English-language Canal+ drama written by Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft, and ordered a music series from Reef Television.
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NewsEHRC: diversity quotas 'run risk' of being unlawful
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has cast doubt over the lawfulness of quotas but backed Lenny Henry’s call to ring-fence funds and create diversity databases.
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NewsC4 to track teenage murder investigation
Ten Alps indie Films of Record will track a police investigation into a teenage murder in an ambitious documentary series for Channel 4.