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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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DLT hires Black for drama push
DLT Entertainment, the indie behind BBC sitcom My Family, has hired Carson Black, the former producer of ITV cop drama The Bill, to spearhead a move into drama.
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Blue executes Murder in Rome
Post facility Blue has completed full post on Murder in Rome, the first episode of the new series of Timewatch. The re-enactment is based around a trial taking place in an amphitheatre in Rome in 81BC. Audio post was undertaken by Blue ...
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Digital radio boost
Sales of digital radios have overtaken those of traditional sets for the first time, according to new figures. In January, electrical goods chain Dixons saw digital set sales outstrip analogue radios by two to one. Demand is expected to rise by more than 50% over the next year. There were ...
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Thomson to make HDTV boxes for BSKYB
Thomson is to be the first manufacturer of the set-top box for BSkyB's High-Definition Television (HDTV) service, set to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin on Wednesday (2 March), Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein also announced that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar ...
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Presteigne builds HD unit
Equipment hire company Presteigne Broadcast Hire is spending around£750,000 on creating a high-definition fly-away unit.
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History Channel buys US reservists doc
Extreme Entertainment has made its first UK sale of Discovery Times' factual series Off to Warto the History Channel. The documentary series has been edited down into a 90-minute special by US production company DCTV specifically for the channel. The programme, which will air on the ...
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Dickinson stumps up own cash for show
Antiques expert David Dickinson is to host a new 6 x 60-minute peaktime series for BBC1 in which he gives 12 people£50,000 of his own money to buy and sell collectables. Dealing with Dickinsonwill be made by Lion TV and has been ordered by outgoing BBC1 ...
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Format focus: Crash Test Mommy
People who don't have children are thrown in at the deep end looking after other people's kids in this Canadian reality format.
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Lion follows Dickens' trip
Lion TV Scotland is to produce a major new documentary for the BBC chronicling Charles Dickens' travels around the US.
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RDFR gets Michael Jackson doc rights
RDF Rights has acquired the distribution rights to Tiger Aspect's documentary Michael Jackson's Boys. The hour-long film examines the influences that have made Jackson the way he is today, how he befriended the families of boys and the repercussions. The programme has already been sold to ...
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Tigress turns lost pooches into working dogs
Specialist factual indie Tigress Productions is training three abandoned dogs to competition standard sheepherders in the hope of finding them new homes.
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Five goes for Supersize She
Five is to explore the world of female body-building in documentary Supersize She. The 60-minute film will focus on the story of British female body-builder Joanna Thomas, in her bid to become Miss Olympia - the highest accolade in the sport. Producer Special Edition Films will ...
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Golden Square gets mobile
Soho's Golden Square Post Production has completed work on sponsorship idents for Formula 1 on ITV and T-Mobile. The idents feature a mobile phone passing itself off as various parts of a Formula 1 racing car, such as the car's wing-mirror or a spinning wheel, but soon reveal that the ...
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UKTV History orders WWII specials
UKTV History has commissioned two series as part of a special V for Victory season, marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in the second world war. Wingspan Fulcrum TV has been commissioned to make 1945, a 5 x 46-minute series on the last months ...
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Inman joins input
Mike Inman, the former executive producer for sport at Carlton, is joining production and post company The Input Video Group as executive producer. Inman is the second appointment in as many weeks, following head of business development Richard Markell. Inman brings a wealth of sports experience having been involved with ...
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MipTV launch for Wimps to Warriors
Distraction Formats is teaming with Tiger Aspect to make its format Wimps to Warriorsa global hit. The five-part show, which sends eight men off to a camp where they endure challenges to become 'real men', airs on Sky One later this year. Distraction Formats will launch ...
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ProVision in Manc
Granada-owned ProVision, the Leeds-based location equipment hire company, is set to open a Manchester office in early April at ITV Granada, Quay Street. The ProVision Manchester site will be headed by newly appointed operations manager Stuart Grant and supported by equipment co-ordinator James Jones. Grant joins from 3sixtymedia and Jones ...
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Pink MD on UK post
Anita Nandwani, managing director of Bristol's Pink House Post Production, has been voted onto the UK Post board as the second regional representative, joining Barcud Derwen managing director Bryn Roberts. Nandwani won her place by receiving over 30% of the regional members' vote. Nandwani highlighted increasing network commissions outside London ...
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Shoefield moves on
Former Granada Sky Broadcasting director of programming Gary Shoefield has joined Who Wants to be a Millionaire?owner Celador. Shoefield, who was made redundant from the multichannel broadcaster a fortnight ago following its takeover by ITV, is now working as a consultant at the indie's distributor Celador ...