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NewsC4 unveils Celebrity Big Brother
Channel 4 is cashing in on the success of Big Brother 5 by bringing back its celebrity spin-off, Celebrity Big Brother , for an extended run.
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NewsBBC makes commissioning change
The BBC has unveiled the first major change to its commissioning structure following the review into its content supply arrangements, with the creation of four new commissioning areas in factual.
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NewsThe Man Who Broke Britain gets 2.4m
BBC2 one-off The Man Who Broke Britain managed a peak of 2.4 million (11%) but faced the might of Five's Hollywood blockbuster The Specialist.
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NewsPearson shuts down Penguin TV
Penguin Television, the TV production division of the Pearson-owned publishing group, is set to close after only one year in business.
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NewsAnglia Studios face closure
Around 20 jobs are facing the axe at ITV's Anglia Studios because the company has failed to find any new work following Trisha Goddard's defection to Five.
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NewsMPC sale nets ITV£52.7m
ITV has finally offloaded its post production facility The Moving Picture Company to French technology group Thomson.
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NewsThomson takes on BBC strategy brief
BBC director of policy and legal Caroline Thomson is to take on the added portfolio of strategy and distribution following the departure of its current head Carolyn Fairbairn.
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NewsBroadcast Awards: Channels and Indies
Terrestrial and multichannel brands will slug it out for the title or the Channel of the Year at the 2005 Broadcast Awards in January with a shortlist of six channels.
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NewsI'm a Celebrity spin-off hits 6.7m
ITV1 cashed in on the popularity of reality show I'm a Celebrity as a spin-off show peaked with 6.7 million (34%) at 10.05pm.
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The good, bad and ugly
The combined share of multichannel viewing looks set to grow by some 11% this year, outstripping both BBC1 and ITV1 for the first time as the two main terrestrial channels continue to lose viewers year on year.
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ABC1 up on Telewest
ABC1, the UK entertainment channel owned by Walt Disney, will be available to Telewest digital TV customers as of Friday, 10 December. The US channel that includes in its portfolio shows such as Home Improvement and General Hospital , will ...
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SMG puts£1.3m into boosting OB
SMG Broadcast and Event Solutions, the production resources arm of SMG, has spent£1.3m bolstering its outside broadcast capabilities to help it compete with the quality of Sky Sports.
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Pepper spices up ITV1's Marple
Pepper has completed VFX work on the latest incarnation of OAP sleuth Miss Marple. Senior VFX artist Jamie Russell transformed summer scenes to a winter setting by adding backgrounds and winter mist. He also took Paddington station back to the 1930s by replacing modern-day elements with footage of gas lamps, ...
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ITV1 idents get festive makeover
The Hive has created new graphics for the ITV1 festive season. The network logo's blue and yellow blocks transform to become animated 'fairy-light characters' that flick around the screen. The CGI images will be incorporated into all the channel's idents and break bumpers throughout the Christmas period. Creative director Phil ...
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Emap spoofs 1970s for Kerrang!
Emap TV Design, Up Creative and Conkerco have produced idents for the Kerrang! music channel. The 4 x 30-second spots are based on 1970s public information broadcast warnings in a style reminiscent of Little Britain. The threat of caravan fatalities and rabies are parodied ...
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Discovery H&L orders for i2i
Indie i2i Television has been greenlit to make five series for Discovery Home & Leisure.
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Smooth operations lined up for R2 shows
Radio indie Smooth Operations has picked up a raft of commissions from BBC Radio 2. These include a six-part series on the history of comedy, a four-part series on plagiarism in music titled Same Old Song and a two-part programme to mark the 80th birthday ...
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All3Media does Serious business
Distributor All3Media International has scored further worldwide sales for children's environmental adventure strand Serious... as a fourth series is greenlit by the BBC.
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BBC rejects Barwise findings on BBC3 and 4
The BBC has rejected the key recommendation of a government-backed report that called for its digital television channels BBC3 and BBC4 to become more mainstream.
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Yipp gets C4 order about living with cancer
YIPP Films is to follow up its award-winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off with a Channel 4 film exploring the friendship of two men brought together through chemotherapy.