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Leopard launches distribution arm
Leopard Films is launching a distribution division at Mipcom in a bid to exploit the secondary rights to its slate of shows.
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Support for Apple
Former NMR managing director Harry Grinling is opening a London office for his Apple training, technical support and integration services business, Support Partners. The Greek Street office in Soho will provide remote, on-site and telephone 'breakdown recovery' services to producers, broadcasters and facilities using Apple software including Final Cut Pro. ...
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Bollywood role for St Anne's
St Anne's and Sumners have finished post-production work on Feelgood Fiction's My Life as a Popat. The kids' comedy drama is about a 12-year-old who escapes into Bollywood dream worlds. St Anne's editors Rob Cooper and John Ellis onlined and colourist Kevin Horsewood graded. ...
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UKTV to air first-time buyers weekend
Reef Television has been commissioned by UKTV Style to follow six prospective home-owners as they attempt to get on the property ladder. The series of 30-minute and 60-minute programmes will form part of a First Time Buyers Weekend on UKTV Style. Nick Thorogood, UKTV's outgoing head of lifestyle, has ordered ...
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Sky One to air new Simpsons every week
Sky One is to screen a brand new episode of The Simpsons every week from the autumn in a bid to capitalise on a major advertising campaign pushing the animated show on Channel 4.
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Pinewood aims to increase TV studio space
Pinewood Shepperton is planning to expand its television facilities following a 17% rise in business over the last six months.
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CBBC to adapt adventure yarn
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale Kidnapped is to be dramatised with an all-star cast as part of a raft of new CBBC dramas.
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ITV orders drama about hangman Pierrepoint
ITV looks set to commission a one-off drama telling the story of one of Britain's last hangmen, Albert Pierrepoint, who executed Ruth Ellis along with around 400 other people.
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C4 orders eighth Scrapheap Challenge
Channel 4 has ordered another series of Scrapheap Challenge from RDF Media before the latest series, which airs this month, has even gone out. C4 head of science Simon Andreae has just commissioned series eight of the popular format, which will be broadcast next year. ...
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Park picked to spearhead C4 radio venture
Richard Park, the former Capital Radio programming chief, is to build a national digital radio station for Channel 4 which could include a weekly show from Richard and Judy.
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C4 unveils autumn
Channel 4 this week unveiled its autumn headed by sex slavery drama Sex Traffic and homegrown comedies Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , a Phoenix Nights spin-off, and Green ...
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Parkinson given 3sixty vision
3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...
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BBC3 into therapy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has said he wants to create a new portfolio of programmes dealing with issues such as therapy and bereavement as he seeks to build his channel's factual output. Murphy has already commissioned one new show, Row Tactics , looking at domestic ...
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Hotbed sells 100 Worst to South Africa
Birmingham-based production company Hotbed Media has licensed its 100 Worst Britons format to South African broadcaster MNET.
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ABC1 unveils key shows for Freeview launch
Disney's new Freeview channel ABC1 will launch this month with two flagship dramas from US parent network ABC. Long-running soap General Hospital will be making its UK debut alongside relationship drama Once and Again (pictured). Produced by The Bedford Falls Company with Touchstone Television, Once and Again stars Sela Ward ...
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NewsEndemol chiefs in£1bn buyout talks
The international management of Endemol - maker of Big Brother - is exploring a£1bn buyout of the business from Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica.
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NewsThompson makes PSB vow
BBC director general Mark Thompson is set to plough more money into key public service genres such as news, current affairs and comedy by spending less in areas such as reality and lifestyle shows.
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NewsC4 orders first ever cop show
The indie behind Channel 4's cult comedy drama hit Shameless has been commissioned to make the channel's first cop show.
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NewsITV and C4 court BBC
Channel 4 and ITV this week both admitted they were looking at forming closer ties with the BBC as the corporation reviews its operations ahead of Charter renewal.
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NewsMasterchef gets reality show revamp
Throughout the 1990s it was regarded as the archetypal genteel cookery show - now Masterchef is to be given a reality-style makeover by the executive producer of Jamie's Kitchen.