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Cowell to give richard dunn lecture
Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell is to give this year's Richard Dunn memorial interview at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Cowell, whose indie Syco (formerly Simcow) is making X Factor, a major new pop contest for ITV, will give the interview to ITV marketing director Jim Hytner. Organisers ...
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Commissioner's Q&A
A Welsh Simpsons is the unlikely production on the wish list of head of English language programmes, BBC Wales Clare Hudson, who is most impressed by indies that can use rejection to become stronger.
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Chrysalis radio up
Chrysalis has reported a 23% boost in revenues for its radio division. The group, which includes Heart, Galaxy and LBC, grew revenue to£33.3m in the six months to the end of February. Overall turnover increased marginally to£84.6m, with pre-tax profits up to£1.9m from£1.3m in the same period last year.
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Living chases Robbie into haunted house
Living TV is bringing back its celebrity haunted castle show I'm Famous and Frightened and is lining up popstar Robbie Williams to be in it. Scream Films has been commissioned to make a 3 x 180-minute second edition of the reality show, in which eight ...
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TV Corp rules out Dyke for chairmanship
The Television Corporation has ruled out appointing former BBC director general Greg Dyke as its new chairman. Dyke had been spoken of as a frontrunner for the post, now held by Michael Grade in an acting capacity, but TV Corp chief executive Jeff Foulser told ...
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Tarrant leaves Capital FM on a high
Veteran breakfast DJ Chris Tarrant left 95.8 Capital FM in good shape but has put pressure on Johnny Vaughan to perform in his place.
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ITV bumps Trouble in Paradise from peak
ITV has pulled Endemol's primetime reality show Trouble in Paradise after only two episodes after it failed to break the 3 million mark in its Thursday 21.00 slot. The remaining four episodes - the first of which was due to air tonight (13 May) - ...
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NFL passes super bowl rights to ITV
ITV has taken over the terrestrial rights to air American football's Super Bowl live in the UK from Five in a three-year deal. The agreement kicks off next year with Super Bowl XXXIX held at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, on 6 February . Due to the time difference, it ...
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BBC tech shortlist
The BBC has cut the shortlist of potential buyers for BBC Technology down to three. Accenture, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) and Siemens now remain as the companies that could win the right to buy the£250m a year company. The purchase brings with it a 10-year£2bn contract with the BBC ...
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BBC prime enjoys leap in polish viewers
BBC Prime, the corporation's entertainment channel in Europe and the Middle East, has added 265,000 homes to its presence in Poland. The carriage deal with broadband platform the Aster Group will take the channel's reach in Poland to 1.8 million.
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BBC drafts in its own ?Jane Tennison'
The BBC is set to launch a new long-running crime series featuring a hard-edged female detective after buying the rights to six novels by author John Connor.
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BBC brings on black writers for Crouches
The creator and writer of the controversial BBC1 sitcom The Crouches , about a black family in south-east London, has stood aside from the second series in order to allow new black writers to take over.
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Dyke and Ball to join saban pay-tv group
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke is set to join ex-BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball, who is working for Israeli billionaire Haim Saban's German pay-TV group ProSieben SAT 1. The former adversaries, who famously clashed over Dyke's decision to broadcast the BBC's services on satellite 'in the clear', will sit ...
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Avid wins news job at Meridian
ITV Meridian has chosen Avid to supply the newsroom technology for its new regional tapeless production centre. The initiative is being viewed as a blueprint for all ITV regional newsrooms across the UK and, if it goes to plan, could result in a multimillion pound contract for Avid Technology, ...
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Attaboy wins two Discovery H&L orders
Attaboy TV has scored two commissions from Discovery Home & Leisure. The Salvager , is a 15 x 30-minute series for September presented by a Hell's Angel who turns junkyard finds into furniture. Daniel Allum produces with Steve Grizzell as executive producer. Attaboy is also ...
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Atkinson comedies sold into europe
Fremantle International Distribution has sold two Rowan Atkinson sitcoms to 12 countries. Mr Bean and The Thin Blue Line have been picked up by Super RTL in Germany, RTL in the Netherlands, TVNZ in New Zealand and YLE in Finland. Canal 7 in Chile, Artear in Argentina, M2 in Morocco ...
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bda opens in Asia
Bruce Dunlop and Associates has set up a new business division in Singapore. Philip Kitcher heads the new office, bringing over 12 years' experience of working in Asia as executive creative director of Discovery Networks Asia, Singapore and Star TV and Turner Broadcasting, both Hong Kong. James Chung joins as ...
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American animation to debut on Trouble
Flextech teen channel Trouble has bought Game Over, a new animation from US distributor Carsey Warner penned by The Simpsons writer David Sacks. The 6 x 30-minute CGI series, which follows a group of computer games characters and features the voice of film star Lucy Liu, will kick off on ...
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Ten Alps hires Norton exec
Peter Kessler, producer of So Graham Norton and the Mrs Merton Show , has been appointed as Ten Alps TV's first head of programmes.
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UK programme sales hit£520m
The worldwide success of shows such as Living with Michael Jackson helped lift international sales and licensing deals of British programmes to almost $1bn last year.