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Peaches Geldof follows in Paula's steps
Bob Geldof's 15-year-old daughter, Peaches, is to follow in the footsteps of her late mother, Paula Yates, by taking to the small screen. She is fronting a 60-minute documentary for Sky One, Peaches Geldof - Inside the Mind of a Teenager , which will look ...
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Tanner to Leave Jazz FM in the spring
Jazz FM managing director Carter Tanner has resigned and will leave the station in March. Tanner, who joined the Guardian Media Group-owned London station in March 2002 from Clear Channel, is believed to be hunting for a more sales-oriented role in the radio sector. Meanwhile, Ofcom is to allow a ...
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Five picks true north for Macintyre job
True North Productions has been commissioned by Five to make a further three one-hour current affairs programmes with Donal MacIntyre, following on from the success of MacIntyre's Big Sting. The new shows, commissioned by senior programme controller Chris Shaw, are being kept under wraps ...
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Frontier finalises So Solid film
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Maroon Productions' Sticks and Stones for C4. The one-hour documentary follows So Solid Crew's Asher D as he asks why some racially offensive language is part of modern life. The show was produced and directed by Paul Blake, edited ...
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Format Focus: The Empire
Five is on the lookout for new reality series, and a trip back in time to a medieval Polish castle could fit the bill.
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Hive staff depart to establish Lime
Four members of The Hive have left VTR Media Services to set up a new company, funded by M2 Television's finance director.
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Five finishes dentist doc's titles
Five Creative Services has made the titles for upcoming documentary series Can You Trust Your Dentist? The titles evoke the nightmarish experience of being at the mercy of shady dental practitioners. Senior designers Timothy Evans and Barney Steel completed compositing and created the 3D waiting ...
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Cornwall indie to explore Eden project
Denham Productions is to make a brace of programmes about the Eden Project in Cornwall for BBC2, the first commissions to come out of the indie's new Cornwall office. Gardening at Eden will follow Eden's 60-strong team of gardeners, while ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Paul Crompton
Sky One's commissioning editor, factual entertainment, Paul Crompton, expresses his life-long passion for darts and an enthusiasm for South Park, Ramsay's Kitchen and the 1970s Office
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Strictly Come Dancing to be remade for Russian TV
The BBC's hit entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing is to be made for Russian audiences as part of a series of deals in the country.
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A tale of two cities
Sending the BBC's children's operation to Manchester is not enough, and BBC3 should be in the mix.
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Mersey launches community digital channel
Mersey Television is launching a grassroots digital public service channel to create a 'stronger voice' for local community issues such as health and education and campaigns such as Fathers for Justice.
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Hewlett chairs fest
Former Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett is taking over from Fulcrum Television's Christopher Hird as chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Hewlett, a non-executive director at indie Tiger Aspect, is already one of the festival's patrons. The festival will go on tour in February, kicking off with a ...
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Challenge signs first CGTV show
Challenge is making its first foray into factual entertainment as part of its multimillion-pound co-production deal with recently launched US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).
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Century opens Leeds office for drama push
Century Films, the producer of Channel 4's Pornography - The Musicaland Robbie Williams documentary Nobody Someday, is opening a regional office in Leeds to spearhead a push into drama.
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Liquid's Celeb work completed
Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...
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Carter hired by Fremantle
Gary carter, the former Endemol executive behind the international roll-out of Big Brother , is to be given in a full-time senior role at Fremantle Media, writes As senior executive vice-president of worldwide entertainment, he will oversee the development of new shows and format ...
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Classic Brit films sold to Italian outfit
Granada International has sold a 30-strong package of classic British movies to new Italian satellite channel Sky Cine Classics. The films include several from the Korda, Rank and ITC collections, which were inherited by Granada when it merged with Carlton International. These include The Four ...
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RDF grabs rights to strongest boy doc
RDF Rights has picked up rights to the documentary World's Strongest Boy , which was produced by indie Firecracker Films. The hour-long programme, which secured an 11.9% share for Five in September, follows an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who can already lift three times his own ...