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BBC Reviews Religion's role on TV
The BBC is to launch an independent review of its religious programming on television, particularly on BBC1. The move follows criticism from the Central Religious Advisory committee about the 'marginalised' scheduling of the genre and the absence of a regular slot. The assessment will report on the strategy approved by ...
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RDF bags rights to Granada show
Indie RDF has scored a major coup after winning the international rights to a new ITV reality show from the Granada team behind I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here!.
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Aussies to try strictly come dancing
Hit BBC1 entertainment format Strictly Come Dancing has been sold to Australia in a co-production deal between BBC Worldwide and Granada Productions. The show, which features celebrities paired with professional dancers, will be known as Dancing with the Stars when ...
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Beard for Ascent
Ascent Media Network Services Europe (AMNSE) has appointed former BBC sales manager for media communications Mark Beard as vice-president, sales. Beard joins senior vice-president Bob Gentry, another Ascent man who came directly from the BBC.
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Liquid creates celeb ancestors
Liquid TV has created the branding and graphics for the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?. The Wall-to-Wall-produced show explores the ancestors of among others Meera Syal, Vic Reeves and David Baddiel. The celebrities were shot on blue-screen and then composited into traditional ...
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Sky One buys American sci-fi series
Sky One has bought the rights to US sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis and apocalyptic drama Revelations from MGM International Television Distribution. The deal, which includes pay, free and basic cable TV rights, also includes the renewal of the rights for ...
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Hilary to take BBC America to ?next level'
Former BBC executive Bill Hilary has been confirmed as the new head of BBC America.
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Twofour AFP head
Twofour Productions has appointed Jason Langley to its board as commercial director. He will be responsible for international programme distribution, secondary rights exploitation, advertiser-funded programming (AFP) and its home video business. He first joined Twofour in 2001 from Shout Television to look after the indie's AFP content, which includes ...
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Clear Cut adds Final Cut, Avid and Lightworks
Clear Cut Pictures has invested£170,000 in five new suites as it field tests Final Cut Pro's capabilities.
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Aardman lines up CGI show
Aardman, the Oscar-winning animation studio behind Wallace and Gromit , has secured a CGI sketch show for CITV.
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Channel 4 has winter sports covered
Channel 4 has ordered around 100 hours of programming from Hot House Productions to cover the FIS Winter Sports season, which C4 has bagged exclusive UK terrestrial rights for. The first show will air on 21 November and run through to the World Cup finals in March. The commentary will ...
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Seacole biopic for C4
Channel 4 editor of history Ralph Lee has commissioned October Films to make a
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Channel 4's 30 minutes gets second run
Mentorn and RAW have been commissioned to make a second series of current affairs strand 30 Minutes for Channel 4. The 7 x 30-minute run, to air next year, will be executive produced by Dimitri Doganis and Sam Collyns.
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NewsBBC3 Buys Dead Bodies film at Mipcom
BBC3 is to show Irish thriller Dead Bodies after snapping up the title at the Mipcom programme market.
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Christian Slater to appear on Radio 2
Indie Celador Productions has signed Hollywood actor Christian Slater to voice a 8 x 15-minute serialisation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for BBC Radio 2 as part of a raft of commissions. It is due to air later this autumn. R2 controller Lesley ...
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Sweeney makes BBC2 investigative series
Award-winning reporter John Sweeney is to front a series of investigations for BBC2. The series, working-titled Sweeney Investigates , will air as two or three 60-minute programmes from early next year and see Sweeney investigating issues in the world of politics, sport and social affairs. ...
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NewsBBC looks to slash in-house output
The BBC is preparing radical proposals that could see its in-house television production cut to just 50% of overall output, leading to massive cuts in staff.
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NewsTWI wins Asian Games
TWI has won the contract to produce the Asian Games from Qatar in 2006, which is understood to be worth $100m (£56m).
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NewsJackson in plan to create UK super-indie
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson, who quit the UK three years ago to run the Universal Television Group in the US, is exploring a return to the British media with a plan to buy a number of indies.
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NewsBBC develops drama about Thatcher 'coup'
The BBC is planning a docu-drama based on the attempted military coup in Equatorial Guinea which led to the arrest of Baroness Thatcher's son, Mark.