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A place in? finds new homes in world
Channel 4 International has inked several deals for Tiger Aspect series A Place in? including a second window in the UK. Discovery UK has picked up repeat rights to all four titles - A Place in France, Greece, Spain and ...
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Shine to follow final legal hunt
Members of Britain's oldest hunt have given permission for cameras to follow them as they take part in what could be the final season of the blood-sport following its banning by Parliament last week.
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Format Focus: Music Farm
An Italian format gives one-hit wonders the chance to make a second impression.
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Five orders more Extraordinary People
Five is bringing back its science strand Extraordinary People with four documentaries about people with unusual abilities or medical conditions.
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UK on top at Emmys
British television was the resounding winner at the International Emmy Awards, picking up six out of seven trophies.
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Electric Sky takes on At it's slate
Distributor Electric Sky has picked up a raft of new titles from indie At It Productions. Among the new titles are 25 x 30-minute travel series Perfect Getaway, which focuses on destinations that have yet to make holiday brochures and is to air on Channel ...
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Radio indie goes into distribution
Somethin' Else, the UK's largest radio indie, is launching an international distribution arm.
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Folio wins order for domestic disasters
Indie Folio has been commissioned to make a BBC1 popular factual series about domestic disasters. The 10 x 30-minute working titled Help will follow specialists who clean up when things go wrong in the home. It is series produced by Becky Clarke at Folio Scotland's ...
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Darkhorse FX opens
Three former BBC Design employees have opened a new vfx company in Bristol. Darkhouse FX is owned by broadcast designer Jean Cramond and digital effects designers Craig Higgins and Adrian Woodward. They have worked on projects including the award-winning Monsters We Met and ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...
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CiTV presentation moves to Manchester
ITV is moving its CiTV presentation department from Birmingham to Manchester early next year.
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Five doc looks at sex change of hearts
Five is to follow the journey of a transsexual who undergoes a series of painful operations to reverse her gender swap.
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Gavin to be non-exec chair at Contender
Rupert Gavin, the former chief executive of BBC Worldwide, is to take up the non-executive chairman role at animation company Contender Entertainment Group, producer of Tractor Tom. Gavin, who unexpectedly quit the corporation's commercial division in the summer, is to help the company attempt ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Chantal Rutherford Browne
UKTV Style channel executive Chantal Rutherford Browne cares more about 'life' than style ideas and is keen to find out what women want
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Best in the world
Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time.
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Beamish to Landmark
Indie Landmark Films has hired former Darlow Smithson development producer Jennifer Beamish to head its science division. Beamish, who has also worked as head of science development at Tigress Productions, will join the Oxford-based indie at the end of the month. Landmark Films' recent science output includes ...
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BBC to terror-proof Five's playout
BBC Broadcast has signed a new five-year contract to provide Five with level-one disaster recovery as commercial broadcasters invest in resilience amid continuing terrorist fears.
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Exclusive horticultural coverage on BBC
The BBC has signed a four-year deal for exclusive rights to the Royal Horticultural Society's four major flower shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. The deal will also see a collaboration on three new BBC2 gardening series for next year. The working-titled Winning Tatton from ...
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South Bank searches for Mary Poppins
Initial is producing a documentary for ITV1 arts strand The South Bank Show about author PL Travers, creator of Mary Poppins. The Real Mary Poppins goes behind the scenes of the new West End musical which coincides with the 70th ...