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More help for blind
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are to join Five in providing audio description on services broadcast by satellite. This will make audio description available to several million additional households, in addition to those households with suitable digital terrestrial receivers. Ofcom had proposed in a draft code - to be ...
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Canada is next to show The Bill
Canada will become the 43rd country to screen ITV1 police drama The Billafter it was sold to cable channel Showcase
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Endemol sells Big Brother to Croatia
Endemol has inked a deal with the newly launched RTL Televizija to air Big Brother in Croatia. It is the first time the Dutch production company has sold a programme format to the east European country. Big Brother, which has now been sold to a ...
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BBC puts footage sales into Motion
The BBC has launched a new web-based clip sales service which it hopes will double the amount of revenue it gets from selling footage such as The Blue Planet within four years.
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NewsBBC still plans free rival to Sky
The BBC is pushing ahead with plans to launch a 'Freesat' rival to Sky next year and is in talks with potential partners about joining the venture.
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BBC promotions
BBC controller of continuing drama series Mal Young has promoted two of his Birmingham-based team as it boosts its output and prepares to move to a new base. Grease Monkeys producer Will Trotter will become executive producer with special responsibility for Birmingham drama series while ...
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BBC launches regional indie initiatives
The BBC is boosting its commitment to English regional indies with several initiatives, including a£100,000 fund to help increase entertainment programming. Funding of between£20,000 and£40,000 has been made available for projects alongside mentoring from a dedicated senior executive as well as business support. BBC independents executive Elaine Bedell has also ...
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Unions and BBC Worldwide reach pay deal
Unions have settled their pay dispute with BBC Worldwide following an improved offer from the company. Staff will now receive a 2.8% rise - up from 2.6% - plus improved bonuses from 1 July after Bectu and the National Union of Journalists agreed to drop a strike ballot. The unions ...
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TV Corp seeks base for Paradise Hotel
The Television Corporation is set to create a new long-term tropical production base to film international versions of its US reality show Paradise Hotel after sealing a deal to create a Swedish version.
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NewsHytner exits ITV for Barclays role
ITV has lost one of its key executives after high street bank Barclays poached the broadcaster's marketing director, Jim Hytner.
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Dream Home back for sixth time on TVNZ
Distraction's Dream Home format has been licensed for a sixth series to TVNZ in New Zealand and has gone into production for a second series with French Canada's TVA. The format, in which two young families renovate neighbouring derelict properties over nine weeks, has done ...
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Skillset av survey
Skillset will next week undertake its annual census of the audio-visual industries. Company chief executives and human resources manager will have the forms on Wednesday 30 June. Forms can also be downloaded from www.skillset.org/census.
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ITV to grant Harry Hill an audience
ITV is poised to commission a new An Audience with ? starring big-collared funny-man Harry Hill. The show from Granada's entertainment division is likely to go out in the autumn to kick-start the new series of Harry Hill's TV Burp ...
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Allen goes to Tiger
Foz Allen, producer of BBC soap Casualty , has quit the corporation to join indie Tiger Aspect. He will join in August as an executive producer working alongside Teachers executive producer Jane Fallon and report to Tiger Aspect head of drama Greg Brenman. He will ...
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GMTV gives disney 90 days to decide
GMTV will next week send out a sale prospectus to shareholders Disney, SMG and ITV outlining SMG's proposal to sell its 25% stake to ITV for£31m. The move effectively gives Disney 90 days to decide whether it wants to raise its stake by exercising a right to buy a quarter ...
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ITN analyses Iraqi handover for C4 news
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN to make a quick-turnaround two-hour news special devoted to the 30 June handover of sovereignty in Iraq. Iraq: Counting the Cost , presented by Jon Snow, will be broadcast between 19.00 and 21.00 on 28 June. C4 claims the show ...
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C4 airs view on BBC
Channel 4 chiefs have told MPs that Ofcom should consider taking over regulation of the BBC when it conducts its five-year review. In evidence to the all-party media select committee this week head of corporate relations John Newbigin said, in the meantime, the BBC should have a management board and ...
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BBC3 puts parenting in the spotlight
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a second series of parenting show Who Rules the Roost as part of a season on the subject. The 10 x 60-minute Ricochet-made series, which is due to air later in the year, asks working parents to stay at ...
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Parsons for BBC3
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has appointed his first channel executive, with a remit to manage output issues such as compliance and editorial matters. Katherine Parsons, who previously headed development in the BBC lifeskills department, will also help manage long-term strategy as well as providing editorial support.
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Poliakoff scripts trilogy for BBC1
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s.