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Good results for FKE
Fox Kids Europe has posted a strong set of half-year financial results, with revenues increasing to£47m for the six months to 31 March this year, from£40m at the same point last year. Profits stood at£6.4m, up from£1.7m, while UK and Ireland revenues went up 39%, from£9.9m at 31 March 2003 ...
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Spooks producer goes into film-making
Indie Kudos, producer of BBC1's Spooks and Hustle , is setting up a film production company. The project is a joint-venture between Kudos managing directors Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone and former FilmFour head Paul Webster. Garrett said: 'The synergy ...
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YTV merges factual and features
Yorkshire TV has merged its factual and features department into a single division following a round of redundancies last year.
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Jones to explore
Former Granada International general manager Ian Jones has resurfaced with a new role as president of Explore International and senior vice-president, National Geographic Television & Film Productions. He has already taken up the new roles, in which he will oversee international sales, co-production and co-financing. He said he was looking ...
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Digital radio on up
The£45m market for digital radios is set to double by the end of the year, according to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB). The DRDB said this week that nearly 1 million digital radios will be in use in the UK by 2005 - the figure currently stands at 547,000. ...
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The digital showdown
Sky may have taken the digital initiative, but the BBC will still hope to give the satellite giant a run for its money.
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Gardner's condition ?improving'
The condition of BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, gunned down in Saudi Arabia while filming the house of an al-Qaeda militant, is slowly improving, the BBC has said. A spokesman said Gardner had not been in a coma but was heavily sedated. Gardner's cameraman Simon Cumbers died in the attack. ...
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Parliament to decide on community radio
The likelihood of community radio stations becoming established in the UK moved a step forward this week when the government brought a Community Radio Order before Parliament. After a period of public consultation the order will pass through both Houses of Parliament and if successful will allow Ofcom to advertise ...
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Sky One picks up Kenny vs Spenny comedy
Sky One has signed a deal with Distraction Formats for 10 episodes of the Canadian comedy format Kenny vs Spenny. Indie Monkey will produce the series after securing exclusive UK rights. James Baker, head of Sky One, said the show, in which two 'friends' test each other's boundaries of tolerance ...
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Clear gets Moore
Derek Moore has joined Soho effects house Clear as senior Inferno artist. Moore replaces Jonny Hicks, who is leaving Clear to join LA-based Digital Domain. Moore, previously of Rushes, has been brought in to work across all genres having worked on projects spanning commercials, promos and films. Ad campaigns include ...
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class films spotlights tour de france
Indie Class Films is to make a series of short films for Channel 4 about the famous French cycle race, the Tour de France. The five-minute documentaries will air directly after Channel 4 News in late July, and will be timed to coincide with the climax of this year's Tour ...
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Ofcom censures Fox News piece
Controversial US channel Fox News, which was criticised for its pro-American reporting during the Iraq war, has been reprimanded by Ofcom for attacking the BBC.
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Hobbs to Celador
Celador Productions has appointed Alexandra Hobbs to the position of director of business and legal affairs and Heather Hampson to the role of head of production. Hobbs will be responsible for all Celador Productions' negotiations with broadcasters and talent.
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CBBC recommissions little red tractor
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has ordered a third series of pre-school animation Little Red Tractor. The 26 x 10-minute run, a co-production between Entertainment Rights and The Little Entertainment Company, follows the adventures of a tractor and its owner, Stan. It is due to air on CBeebies and BBC2 at ...
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Popworld carved up
Channel 4 and UBC Media are poised to each take a 25% stake in Simon Fuller's Popworld company, as a prelude to launching Popworld-branded products, including a radio station, by the end of the year. C4 already owns 7% of the company, which owns both the Popworld brand and the ...
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Paramount buys Charlie Sheen comedy
Paramount Comedy has signed its first deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution, picking up hit show Two and a Half Men. Paramount Comedy, owned by Viacom, has acquired the exclusive UK cable and satellite rights to the 23 x 30-minute first series of the show, which is currently showing ...
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Broadcasters given warning over repeats
terrestrial broadcasters have been warned that if they use too many repeats of UK-produced programmes they may not be able to include them in their quotas in future.
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Suite beams
Beam.tv is launching a service, called Beamsuite, that it said will facilitate global advertising campaigns by speeding up the production of international versions for local broadcast market, including different formats, such as PAL, NTSC, HDTV, or languages. Generic masters and broadcast elements, including overlength shots, audio tracks, graphics, fonts and ...
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Everett and Fry to play Holmes for BBC and ITV
The BBC is to slug it out with ITV in a battle of the deerstalkers after revealing that it too has commissioned a Sherlock Holmes drama.
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BBC unveils new newsroom
This is the first view of what the BBC's new state-of-the-art digital newsroom will look like at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC's huge newsgathering operation, which is the largest in the world, is set to move from its current base at Television Centre in west London to Broadcasting House ...