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NewsiPlayer revamp helps viewers unlock content
The BBC wants to transform iPlayer from a “static jukebox” into the ultimate destination for BBC viewers to discover new content.
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NewsFremantle launches push for major online formats
Fremantle Media is preparing for the future by attempting to create a wave of major online formats.
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NewsBBC comedy looks to future
BBC comedy controller Shane Allen is pulling together a flexible commissioning strategy to accommodate short- and long-form content as BBC3 prepares to move online.
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NewsHorror Channel to air early Doctor Who episodes
The Daleks, Cybermen, Sea Devils and Ice Warriors are to descend on the Horror Channel after it agreed a deal with BBC Worldwide to air 30 stories from the classic Doctor Who series.
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NewsC4 calls for voice in 2015 leaders debates
Channel 4 has argued that it should host a 2015 election debate, in the same week that its licence was renewed by Ofcom for another 10 years.
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NewsJacques Peretti to look at spending for BBC2
Jacques Peretti is expanding his The Men Who Made Us… franchise with a documentary series about consumer culture.
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NewsBBC3 to review its genre mix
The BBC3 genre mix is up for grabs as Danny Cohen and Zai Bennett set to work preparing the youth channel for its move online next year.
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NewsRed to turn classic movies into TV series
Red Production Company is set to adapt high-profile feature films including The Wicker Man and Billy Liar into television series after its acquisition by fi lm producer and distributor StudioCanal.
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News3 Rivers targets UK mergers and acquisitions
Dutch media consultant 3 Rivers, one of the firms behind Warner Bros’ acquisition of Shed Media, is expanding into the UK to take advantage of the increasing M&A trend.
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NewsBroadcast launches Creative Week events
Broadcast is teaming up with its sister titles to launch Creative Week, five days of high-level events in June covering the television business, film world and advertising community.
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NewsSIS Live considers splitting fleet in search for buyers
SIS Live has reopened the tender process for its collection of outside broadcast units after it failed to find a buyer for the fleet.
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NewsRRsat Europe steps up push into sport and live events
RRsat Europe is ramping up plans to push into production and distribution of sport and live events.
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NewsBBC3 in fight for Family Guy
BBC3 is battling with Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox Television to bring prized US acquisition Family Guy to its new online home and is preparing to change the role acquisitions will play on the channel.
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NewsBBC2 orders M6 doc series and more James May
BBC2 is looking to drive more success with a pair of motoring commissions.
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NewsThree more exit on back of major BBCW restructure
The fallout from BBC Worldwide’s major restructure is continuing with the departure of three more senior executives from its content and production team.
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NewsC5 explores fight against crime
Channel 5 is to explore modern crime in the UK as part of a raft of documentaries from recently installed factual commissioner Guy Davies.
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NewsJimmy McGovern's Banished debut BBC First order
Banished, Jimmy McGovern’s RSJ Films drama about the 18th century colonisation of Australia has emerged as the debut commission from BBC Worldwide channel BBC First.
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NewsBig Star’s Little Star to return
ITV has ordered an extended second series of Stephen Mulhern-fronted entertainment show Big Star’s Little Star.
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NewsBBC2 to Meet the Puppies
BBC2 is to follow the development of six puppies in their first year of life in an RDF Television series.
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NewsQuantel acquires Snell
Quantel has acquired Snell in a deal that creates a broadcast technology giant with revenues of just over £100m.