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Newsnight special looks at Iraq war
Jeremy Paxman is to front a 90-minute primetime Newsnight special on the reasons why Britain went to war in Iraq. Prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to appear on the programme, which will mark the first anniversary of the war. It will look at ...
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Lion to produce more hammer shows
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show Homes Under the Hammer for BBC1. They are scheduled for broadcast this autumn, with a further 20 episodes for spring 2005. Melanie Eriksen will executive produce.
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French to remake wildlife rescue show
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television. The company acquired the French, Belgian and Swiss rights to the BBC1 show from distributor All3Media International. The shows are also distributed as finished programmes, with recent sales to New Zealand's TV3, Canada's TVO ...
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Telemagination MD quits to go freelance
Marion Edwards, managing director of animation house Telemagination, is leaving the company after seven years. Edwards, who is currently executive producing a second series of The Cramp Twins for Cartoon Network, will leave in mid-March to set up as a freelance producer and animation consultant. ...
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Lion makes gay format for Fox
Lion Television has strengthened its foothold in the US with a major new commission for the Fox network.
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Mosaic to follow olympic fortunes
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for BBC4. Nick Fraser, commissioning editor of BBC4 strand Storyville, has ordered Athens Through the Hoops for broadcast in the week before the Games start in August. The programme will investigate how the Olympics are ...
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FCUK sets up radio station
Clothing label French Connection is launching a digital radio station on 1 April, broadcasting from its Regent Street store.
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Leopard takes on Shine exec
Leopard Films has appointed Shine executive producer Jonathon Holmes as its first head of factual and features, writes Glen Mutel.
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Electric sky sells rights to ocean show
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the Deep. The 15 x 26-minute series, produced by Cornwall-based indie Shark Bay Films, has been picked up by Nippon Television in Japan, TVE in Spain, TVP in Poland ...
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Encoda wins ITV deal
ITV has awarded a multimillion pound contract to Encoda Systems to supply its airtime sales system Landmark. The deal will see more than half of the UK's commercial TV advertising being controlled by the Landmark system at ITV, following the merger of Carlton and Granada. Landmark will allow ITV to ...
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NewsMiriam gets February date on Sky
Sky One will finally screen its controversial reality show There Something About Miriam later this month after paying the show's six contestants£125,000 each. The six claimed they were tricked into competing for the affections of a dark-haired 'woman' called Miriam, unaware that she was actually ...
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Sky One co-pro deal
Sky One and the Sci-Fi Channel in the US have joined forces to make a 13 x 60-minute series of the 1980s sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica. Filming is due to start next month in Vancouver with David Eick as executive producer. The show expected ...
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Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs, writes Will Strauss.
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Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Mentorn wins ITV class order
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate , in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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Producer chosen for doctor who revival
Phil Collinson, the producer of BBC1 dramas Sea of Souls and Linda Green , has been confirmed as the producer of the BBC's new version of Doctor Who. Queer ...
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Millar buys studios
Record producer Robin Millar has acquired Whitfield Street Studios from its current owner, Sony Music. Negotiations have been going on between Millar and Sony since September when Sony decided to pull the plug on the facility. Purpose-built in 1965 and originally owned by CBS, the central London facility consists of ...
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Discovery offers pay per view broadband
Discovery Networks International has launched a UK pay-per view and subscription broadband service, giving viewers access to up to 20 hours a month of new content, writes Paul Revoir.
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Top-Up TV signs set-top box deal
Top-up TV, the new pay-TV network set to be offered to almost a million Freeview viewers, has secured a deal with a major electrical manufacturer to create a series of smartcard set-top boxes.
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Blackpool lights up musical show
The bright lights and faded grandeur of Blackpool is to be the backdrop for a major BBC1 'musical drama' - one of a number of new projects from BBC head of drama serials Laura Mackie, writes Leigh Holmwood.