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Formats & Deals - NHK buys Little Robots kids animation.
BBC Worldwide has sold pre-school animation series Little Robots to public Japanese broadcaster NHK. The series,
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Analysis - An impossible jigsaw.
When it was first suggested, the idea of a merger between Channel 4 and Five seemed absurd. But, as speculation intensifies, Steve Clarke asks what the advantages are of such a marriage of convenience.
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It's all in the worst possible taste.
Sky One head of factual Matthew Paice has commissioned three independents to make 4 x 60-minute
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Formats & Deals - ER to handle Japanese Toon across Europe.
Entertainment Rights, the owner of Basil Brush and Postman Pat, is to distribute Japanese animation series
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Formats & Deals - C4 child sex doc sells to Europe and USA.
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of sales for Cutting Edge documentary The Child Sex
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Analysis - Profile - Can MacDonald make C4's day?
Is Adam MacDonald's mix of scheduling experience at the BBC and programme-making experience gained at Lion TV the dream ticket for revitalising C4's daytime?
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Format Focus: The making of the ? Show.
An improvised Finnish comedy, which has echoes of The Larry Sanders Show, The Office and Monty Python, sounds as if it would be irresistible to a UK audience, writes Michael Rosser.
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Commissioning - ITV Saturday night show gives the talentless hope.
RDF Media is to produce a new Saturday night entertainment show for ITV in which two of Britain's top music managers will each have to transform a talentless group of friends into a credible band of performers, writes Glen Mutel.
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Matt Tombs.
The head of entertainment and drama at UKTV is on the lookout for weekend event ideas for the group's new entertainment channel, UKTV G2, and is proud of the fact that UKTV Gold is not just a repeats outlet.
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Commissioning - Quickfire scores two BBC series.
Former Granada head of history Mark Fielder's new indie, Quickfire Media, has picked up its first
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Commissions - BBC signs Campbell for primetime show.
The BBC has signed TV and radio presenter Nicky Campbell to host its new primetime Saturday
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Commissions - Heggessey brings back drama favourites.
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has recommissioned three of the channel's dramas. Filming on a new 8
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BBC opens archive.
The BBC has launched a website which will allow people to use its archive to make
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Arab broadcaster options BBC series.
Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based newscaster set up last year to rival al-Jazeera, has renewed its distribution ties with the BBC, optioning a further 125 hours of content, writes Colin Robertson.
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Animated Poirot to air in Japan.
The classic crime novels of Agatha Christie have been animated for the first time following a
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Commissions - Mentorn takes a look at foreign affairs.
Indie Mentorn has been commissioned by Five controller of history Alex Sutherland to make a 60-minute
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C4 loses news man.
Channel 4 News senior foreign editor Andrew Macdonald is leaving the programme. Since he joined in
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Commissioning - BBC4 cash earmarked for science and ethics.
BBC4 controller Roly Keating - who was given a£10m budget increase last month - has commissioned a range of science and ethics series in a bid to create more 'appointment to view' slots on the channel, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Commissions - C4 pays tribute to influence of Friends.
Channel 4 is to mark the final episodes of Friends by airing a 90-minute documentary about
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NTL and Sky make up.
Cable operator NTL has resolved its dispute with BSkyB over the cost of carrying the satellite