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India's star TV in gameshow format deal
Distraction Formats has sold the rights of gameshow Dirty Rotten Cheater to Star TV in India. The format, in which contestants must guess who has been given all the answers, will go into production this autumn. An Italian version, produced by Magnolia, recently premiered on ...
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Fifty Fifty sci fi deal
Fifty Fifty Post Production has signed a two-year deal to set up and manage in-house audio services for the Sci Fi channel. The Sci Fi channel will pay a monthly management fee to the Soho company, which will supply two in-house audio engineers to operate and service the HD Pro ...
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Zig Zag hires crick
Zig Zag has hired its first head of development, poaching Ed Crick from the BBC's factual entertainment department. Crick, whose credits include My Family and Autism , joins immediately reporting to Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton. His arrival coincides with the 70-strong indie's move ...
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The digital clock ticks on
Despite the government's move to a more realistic digital switchover date, unanswered questions remain.
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Tara P-T to chart posh rockers
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is to front a new BBC Radio 1 documentary examining the power of the class system in the music business.
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NBC takes chance on double or nothing
US network NBC has begun pre-production on a reality special, based on a Sky One show, in which a man bets everything he owns on one spin of the roulette wheel. Double or Nothing , made by Target Entertainment in the UK, will follow one ...
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Televideo to film celebrity poker match
Outside broadcast specialist Televideo has been commissioned by Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programmes Gary Shoefield to cover the first ever Celebrity Poker UK Challenge. The event, held at Brighton's Rendezvous Casino at the end of August, features celebrities playing alongside members of the public for a prize fund of£120,000. ...
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TV Set duo set up TK business
Alf Penn and Dave Yeo, sales managers at the TV Set, have quit the post house group to set up telecine company TK One.
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Kilgarriff brief is extended
The head of Turner Broadcasting's kids channels, Richard Kilgarriff, has been given responsibility for all the company's UK entertainment channels.
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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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BBC disabled target
The BBC has set a target of 4% of its 28,000 jobs to be staffed by people with disabilities by 2007. Around 2.7% of BBC staff currently identify themselves as having a disability compared to 10.1% of the population as a whole. The new target sits alongside improved targets for ...
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Bectu calls off BBC Technology strike
Broadcasting union Bectu has been forced to call off this weekend's planned strike over the sale of BBC Technology after receiving a renewed offer from its proposed buyer Siemens. The strike was due to take place for two days from Friday (30 July). Another two-day strike from 13 August, which ...
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IWC media bags BBC piping hot order
BBC Scotland has ordered a one-off documentary for later this year centred around Glasgow's international bagpipe festival in August. The programme, provisionally titled Piping Hot , will be made by IWC Media. IWC's Hamish Barbour will executive produce and Jill Cumberbatch and Tim Maguire will ...
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Bravo orders to probe bad Brits
Bravo has stocked up on factual content with three series looking at the rougher side of Britain's provincial towns.
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Govt backtracks on switchover
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.
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Dubbs axes nine
Soho duplication service Dubbs has laid off nine members of staff in what chairman John Reiss called 'a proactive initiative to protect the staff that remain'. Reiss attributed the decision to cut the staff to the technological changes that have affected the duplication business and said: 'We hate doing this ...
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Ascent sets up TV and film restoration arm
Ascent Media has brought in Martin Poultney from Technicolor to head their new group restoration, archiving and mastering team aimed at the film and TV markets.
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Benny Hill show set for BBC America
BBC America has picked up classic slapstick comedy The Benny Hill Show following a deal with Fremantle International Distribution. The popular Thames Television series made in the 1960s and 1970s will join the channel's schedule from October. In addition, Fremantle has sold the home entertainment ...
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Adrian Chiles to front MOTD spin-off
Working Lunch presenter Adrian Chiles is to front a new Match of the Day spin-off to air on Sunday evenings on BBC2. Match of the Day 2, which will air at 10pm from 15 August, will include highlights from that day's games as well as ...