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John Willis in call for authored docs
BBC director of factual and learning John Willis has called for less homogenised television and more pieces like the controversial BBC2 series The Power of Nightmares. During the Royal Television Society's annual Christmas lecture on Wednesday (24 November), Willis said he wanted to see ...
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RDFR set to distribute Bad Lads' Army
RDF Rights has secured the distribution rights for the format and finished series of Bad Lads' Army. The 8 x 60-minute series, which indie Twenty Twenty produced for ITV, follows 30 young offenders who are put through an army-style regime in an attempt to change ...
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Allen's new ITV passion
ITV's regional strategy is under scrutiny as plans to pull out of non-news programming threaten to overshadow a£40m investment in news. Broadcast headed to Maidstone to ask ITV chief executive Charles Allen how deep his commitment to news really goes.
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Living to air Boston Legal
Living TV has signed its first deal with Twentieth Century Fox, picking up all UK rights to US primetime drama Boston Legal.
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FX to exclusively air Sony drama Huff
FX has clinched exclusive multichannel rights to Sony Pictures' Huff. The 13 x 60-minute drama follows psychiatrist Dr Craig 'Huff' Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) and also stars Oliver Platt ( The West Wing ). It was written and created by ...
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Goldcrest adds to TV facilities
Feature film facility Goldcrest Post is expanding its broadcast capacity, spending up to£200,000 as it pursues managing director Peter Joly's policy of diversification.
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GWR reports ad loss
GWR, the radio group set to merge with Capital Radio, has added to the downbeat feeling across the sector by issuing a warning that the radio advertising market has weakened. The company, which runs Classic FM, reported an 8.7% year-on-year drop in advertising revenue for October and forecasted that it ...
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Celador sells diet across the globe
Celador International has made a hat-trick of sales of You Are What You Eat. The diet and nutrition series, which airs on Channel 4 and features Dr Gillian McKeith, has been sold to MTV3 in Finland. The second 18-episode series will air on C4 ...
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Manchester's Flix acquires Avid Nitris HD
Manchester edit house Flix Facilities is to invest£100,000 in new equipment including an Avid DS Nitris HD.
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Absolute Flame hire
Absolute Post has appointed James Allen as a senior Flame artist. He joins from Glassworks. Allen has worked with directors Chris Cunningham and Will van der Vluht as a Flame operator.
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C4 to air more one-off drama
Channel 4 plans to increase its single drama output by screening one feature-length special each month.
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C4 takes Touchpaper series
Touchpaper TV, the indie behind Channel 4's recent transatlantic series NY-LON , has bagged another C4 order with a political thriller.
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C4 asks if football is the new religion
SFX, the management agency that fixed David Beckham's move to Real Madrid, is making a one-hour documentary for Channel 4 about football's relationship with religion. Hallowed Be Thy Game will see former Dominican friar and football fan Mark Dowd consider whether the devotion to the ...
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C4's mobile games
Channel 4 has launched a mobile phone gaming service through 4Interactive, entering a Eu100m (£70m) market. Games are downloaded through the C4 website for£4.50 each. Research has suggested that the downloadable Java games market could generate revenues of up to $2bn (£1.08bn) by 2008. C4 has teamed up with European ...
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Evolutions posts C4's Auschwitz
Evolutions Television has finished post on Auschwitz - The Forgotten Evidence for Flashback Television and Channel 4. The documentary studies reconnaissance photos of the Nazi death camp that were taken by Allied planes in 1944 and why, despite Churchill's recommendations, no action was taken. Evolutions' ...
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BBC2 follows house-building couple
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has commissioned an 8 x 30-minute series that will follow a couple as they attempt to build their own home. The House that Dick Built will feature Dick Strawbridge and his wife as they construct a self-sufficient and environmentally friendly house. ...
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Map Man gets a second series on BBC2
Indie Tern Television is to make a second series of BBC2 factual series Map Man. BBC2 commissioner Nicola Moody has ordered an 8 x 30-minute series, presented by cartography expert Nicolas Crane. Each episode explores 'ingenious and revolutionary' British maps. A delivery date has ...
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3rd Rock finds permanent home on ITV2
ITV2 has exclusively acquired the entire catalogue of US series 3rd Rock from the Sun in the UK, which it will air from January, writes Paul Revoir.
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£400m bill to switch over-75s to digital
Financial assistance should be given to the over-75s and the vulnerable during the switchover to digital TV, Ofcom has said. In a recommendation that could cost up to£400m, the regulator said during switchover those eligible for TV licence exemptions should be helped to meet the cost of new equipment and ...
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Auctionworld folds with debts of£14m
Teleshopping channel Auctionworld has gone into administration with debts of around£14m. The station went off air on Friday (19 November) after Ofcom last week ordered it to cough up£450,000 after repeatedly failing to suspend misleading price guides and for poor customer service. Around 300 staff are thought to have lost ...