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Cosgrove Hall develops teens toon
Cosgrove Hall Films is to develop a new animated show around a group of streetwise friends with Manchester-based indie Streetplay Design. The Slums, which will target 15 to 24-year-olds, is part of Cosgrove Hall's strategy to expand out of producing shows for just the pre-school market. Writers working on the ...
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Profits rise for TV Corp
The Television Corporation, producer of Robot Wars and the Hamburg Cell , has reported a return to profits for the first six months of the year after admitting to three 'difficult' years of losses.
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CNBC's media talk
CNBC Europe is to launch a studio-based panel discussion show on the media industry. The 6 x 30-minute Media Talk will air from 24 September at 6pm on Friday evenings and will be repeated at 7pm on Sundays.
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Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky
Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...
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Hunniford returns with celeb homes series
Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.
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Racing UK on cable
Horse-racing channel Racing UK has increased its reach to a further 1 million homes after signing a deal with cable operator Telewest Broadband. Racing UK is already available in BSkyB's 7.4 million homes.
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Entertainment Rights buys out Tell-Tale
Another indie was swallowed up this week when Postman Pat -owner Entertainment Rights (ER) bought Tweenies creator Tell-Tale Productions for£3.1m.
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Shake-up at BSkyB music
BSkyB has handed the running of its three music channels to a rival company in a move that leaves 13 staff facing redundancy.
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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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Gamer.tv to produce new bravo series
Bravo has commissioned a new series for video games players to replace long-running series Gamepad. Dominik Diamond will host 20 x 30-minute series When Games Attack , which will be made by indie Gamer.tv and shown this autumn. The ...
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Pact launches indie rights body
Producers' alliance Pact has launched a new division to help producers better exploit and protect their programmes and is in talks to merge the BTDA into it.
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Beaton sets up TV consultancy
Former Action Time managing director Caroline Beaton has launched a TV consultancy which will offer advice on anything from international distribution to advertiser-funded programming.
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Pact says BBC must support British films
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is facing pressure from indies to force the BBC to invest more in British films as a condition of its Charter renewal.
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BBC Broadcast lands Five subtitling and signing deal
BBC Broadcast has won a four-and-a-half year contract with Five to provide audio description and sign language services as it looks to capitalise on an Ofcom ruling in July.
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BBC signs Lancashire to play Cannings
Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a BBC1 docu-drama. Cherished will be based on the case of Cannings, who was tried for the murder of her children and spent two years in prison ...
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Jowell lobbied over BBC Technology sale
Broadcasting union Bectu met media secretary Tessa Jowell on Monday (13 September) to lobby against the proposed sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens. Jowell was said to have given a 'sympathetic hearing' to the union's concerns and wrote to the BBC on Tuesday asking for clarification on them. ...
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Shine poaches BBC development exec
Shine has appointed former BBC development executive Sara Brailsford as editor of features. Brailsford will work across Shine's features as well as taking on the role of series producer on new ITV show Best House Buy.
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Lip Sync maps out Kids Awards
Lip Sync post has provided the branding and animated graphics for Walt Disney Productions Disney Channel Kids Awards 2004. An animated pirate's treasure map was created, with the camera zooming in on a different area for each award. The design, map, visual effects and final compositing was done by senior ...
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Ross Kemp SAS series sells to Asia's Star TV
Bentley Productions' ITV SAS drama Ultimate Force has been sold to Asia's TV service Star TV - the 123rd international deal for the show.
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Celador appoints interactive media chief
Celador International has appointed Flextech TV's Simon Gunning to head its interactive media division. Gunning, formerly Flextech's head of business development and then controller of interactive programming, will seek out rights to third-party properties and develop commercial iTV solutions. He replaces Bruce Vandenburg who is setting up his own venture.