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Digital on the up
Digital TV is now in 55% of UK homes, with almost 4 million people taking up Freeview. Ofcom has reported that by 30 June this year, 13.7 million households had taken digital, TV with around 1 million taking analogue cable services. Overall, digital and analogue multichannel penetration stands at 59%. ...
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Four UK formats set for US debut
The influence of UK producers on American broadcasters continues to grow apace with four more British series lined up for adaptation in the US.
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US Deal for Granada
Granada International has sold the rights to ITN documentary The Forgotten Kingdom: Prince Harry in Lesotho, which features an exclusive interview with the prince, to ABC in the US. The distributor has also sold the programme to broadcasters in Belgium, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia and net ...
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ITV cuts debt with Thomson SA sale
ITV has cut its debt by£172m after offloading its entire stake in technology company Thomson SA. Citigroup Global Markets and UBS Limited have agreed to buy ITV's 15.5 million shares in the company following a competitive process. The deal, which represents about 5.5% of Thomson's outstanding shares, is set to ...
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RDF series looks at historical crimes
RDF Media is developing a drama series about real-life murders from Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of country house whodunnit Gosford Park.
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Euro success for undercover cops drama
BBC undercover police drama In Deep has been sold to France, Switzerland and Belgium. French broadcaster M6 has taken all three series from distributor Indigo and will screen it on cable channel Teva while French pay-TV channel Canal Plus has bought the third series. Swiss ...
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Green Inc nets RTE contract
Comedian Patrick Kielty's Belfast-based indie Green Inc has secured an order for 150 hours of programming from Irish state broadcaster RTE.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Kim Peat
Five controller of daytime, arts and religion thinks Spitalfields in London is a great example of religion and art crossing over and has an idea in development that will help to make drawing sexy
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Winkleman to host come dancing spin-off
Former Liquid News presenter Claudia Winkleman has been signed up to front the new daily stripped spin-off of Strictly Come Dancing. The 40 x 30-minute order of Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two ...
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Stars win Shine a clutch of orders
Shine has secured a raft of entertainment commissions, including a show for Five examining how ugly celebrities manage to pull beautiful people.
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Cineflex mass sell to german networks
Five documentary series The Ultimates is among a raft of programming that has been sold to German networks by distributor Cineflix International. The 6 x 60-minute technology series has been taken by Kabel 1. Cineflix has also sold MayDay , ...
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Cicada and Dutch indie sign disaster deal
Factual specialist Cicada Films has inked a new co-production deal with Dutch indie Off the Fence for two disaster documentaries. Off the Fence will seek other partners for the documentaries and market the productions worldwide, starting at Mipcom. The Day the Earth Split in ...
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Final chapter for Hutton
Dyke's continued ire against the government may be justified but for the BBC there is no point in revisiting Hutton.
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Lion to catch a thief format goes Dutch
Lion TV format To Catch a Thief is to be remade for Dutch audiences. The BBC1 daytime show, in which two ex-convicts burgle a house on camera to expose its security deficiencies, will be reworked by indie Palazzina TV Productions in the Netherlands. The show is believed to be set ...
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UK indie gets Canada extreme-sports job
Indie and distributor Black Diamond Films has been commissioned to produce two extreme-sports series by Global Broadcasting in Canada. The cable broadcaster X-Treme Channel will air bike sports series Spoked and skating series Concrete and Chaos , Both series will be 65 x 30-minutes long.
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Format Focus: How to Build Your Love
This dating and DIY hybrid follows 15 singles as they go all out to build a house and find love in the process, writes Michael Rosser
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ITN Factual handed documentary brief
ITN Factual has been commissioned by A&E Network in the US to make six documentaries for the Biography Channel.
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Bravo ties up with Men's Health for series
Bravo has teamed up with magazine publisher Rodale to air a masthead series based on fitness title Men's Health.
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Ofcom receives Edinburgh licence bids
Bids for Edinburgh's new FM licence, believed to be worth£15m in ad revenues a year, were submitted to Ofcom this week. Emap, which publishes Broadcast , is bidding as part of the Castle FM consortium, SMG has proposed Virgin Radio Classic Rock, Guardian Media Group ...
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GWR in licence bid
Classic FM owner GWR is to bid for a new FM licence covering Greater Manchester, with a rock format that champions new music. The Storm will give extensive airtime to unsigned bands and actively promote live music throughout the city if selected from a range of competitive bids by regulator ...