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Ulster TV and ITV end row over sales
Ulster Television (UTV) has settled its dispute with ITV plc over claims that the merged company is selling on hit shows to ITV2 too cheaply. The Northern Irish broadcaster, which pays towards shows on ITV1 but has no stake in ITV2, had complained that the digital channel was not paying ...
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Heavy duty order for the gamma project
The Discovery Channel has commissioned new indie The Gamma Project to make a series about machinery, fronted by Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie. The 10 x 30-minute Heavy Duty, which is due to air in November, is the follow-up to Massive Engines. The series was commissioned by Discovery Channel UK director ...
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Graef to make doc on operation trident
Roger Graef's Films of Record has been commissioned to make a BBC1 series charting the Metropolitan Police's Operation Trident unit, which investigates black-on-black crime. The 3 x 60-minute Gun Cops was commissioned by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and senior commissioning executive Richard Klein and is produced and directed by Jane ...
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Ex-Virgin DJ lauded
Axed Virgin Radio DJ Daryl Denham has picked up a gold award at the New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards. The former drivetime DJ, who presented a weekend show before being dropped, beat competition from around the world to win best comedy/humour personality for a network show. The UK performed ...
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Sky and Paramount in sci-fi deal
SKY ONE has entered into a co-production deal with Paramount for new sci-fi series The 4400, writes Naomi Rovnik.
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Green in daytime directorial debut
Actor Robson Green is to make his directorial debut in the new run of BBC1's Afternoon Plays as the strand extends beyond from its romantic comedy roots.
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Entertainment rights lands puppy days
Entertainment Rights, owner of Basil Brush and Postman Pat, has secured the UK licensing, merchandising and video rights to pre-school cartoon Clifford's Puppy Days. The series, produced by Scholastic Entertainment, charts the early years of the CBeebies show Clifford the Big Red Dog. The new show will launch on CBeebies ...
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Endemol pools global creative talent
Endemol has set up a global creative team, which will bring together the company's top creative and commercial executives from around the world, to develop ideas and business opportunities. Endemol's executive director of programming and licensing, Mike Morley, who will now also be executive director of creativity, will lead the ...
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Moving Picture company likely to be sold
ITV is to dispose of a large number of its non-core assets in a bid to make further savings from its merger process. Post-production house The Moving Picture Company, which provided effects for the recent Troy blockbuster, is close to being sold off. The company ...
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NewsKilroy TV co shuts
Former talkshow host Robert Kilroy-Silk is to shut down his television production company following the cancellation of his series and his election to the European Parliament. The Kilroy Television Company will be wound up by the end of July after BBC1 axed daytime show Kilroy ...
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Trio of orders for the children's company
The Children's Company has picked up three orders, including a fresh take on children's stories penned by Calendar Girls writer Tim Firth. The live-action Baddies, which is in development for the BBC, will tell stories such as the Three Little Pigs or Cinderella from the villain's point of view. Little ...
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More Heavy Metal for History Channel
INDIE Flashback Television has won a multimillion-dollar slate of orders from US broadcasters, including a revamp of its lucrative war machines series Heavy Metal for The History Channel.
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PSB channel launch
Ascent Media Network Services Europe has helped launch Information TV, a free-to-air TV channel that is touting itself as 'a new approach to public service broadcasting'. The channel carries programmes from government departments, public bodies and other public service institutions. It aims to provide UK citizens with access to valuable ...
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Five uncovers more of Britain's Worst
Five is to expand its Britain's Worst strand with four one-hour specials looking at the country's worst wife, teenager, neighbour and mother-in-law.
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Capital losing out to Heart in breakfast slot
Capital Radio's Johnny Vaughan is being beaten in the battle of the London breakfast wars by Heart 106.2 rivals Jono Coleman and Harriet Scott, according to unofficial listening figures.
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Bow Tie recruits
Outside broadcasting company Bow Tie Television has appointed Duncan Smith - formerly facility director for Nats - as sales and marketing director. Tom Nash joins as head of sound from Visions.
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Lola buys in HD kit for BBC doc
Special effects company Lola has spent over£200,000 on new kit to cater for the HD needs of BBC documentary Supervolcano, following in the footsteps of its previous success with Pompeii.
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Chinese take away chart show cd:uk
Blaze Television's ITV1 chart show CD:UK has been picked up for broadcast in China. Over 100 episodes of the show, represented by Zeal Music, have been sold to new digital channel CDP Music, co-owned by Chinese public broadcaster CCTV. The deal, brokered by Sydney-based distributor Zebra, also includes 11 episodes ...
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BBC Broadcast on top at Promax Awards
BBC Broadcast dominated the international categories at last week's Promax Awards in New York and Broadcast Young Talent Award winner Richard Acton was recognised as an exciting new talent for the second time in as many months, writes Rick Dacey.
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Aussie cop show sold to Granada Sky
Beyond Distribution has sold the first two series of hit Australian undercover cop show Stingers to Granada Sky Broadcasting, the owner of Granada Plus and Men and Motors. Stingers, about the lives and loves of undercover police, is set to go into its eighth series and has also sold to ...