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Channel 4 conceives Morning After Show
Popworldhost Simon Amstell is to front a new live magazine show for Channel 4 taking a comedic look at the week's events. The 6 x 60-minute series, The Morning After Show, will be produced by Talkback Thames and see Amstell and co-hosts Olivia Lee and Barunka ...
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C4 suffers Friday night slump
Channel 4 suffered its second worst peaktime performance on a Friday since 1992 as comedy Nathan Barleydrew an average of just 700,000 (3.3%) at 10pm.
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Industry to act on sound levels
The Advertising Producers Association (APA) has told broadcasters for the first time how they should operate with post-production companies on the problem of sound levels.
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FX lands Fat Actress for UK
Multichannel broadcaster FX has acquired exclusive UK rights to Cheersstar Kirstie Alley's much-hyped new comedy reality show, Fat Actress.
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Addiction gives us H Side Story
Addiction has just finished a title sequence and content graphics for Blaze Television's H Side Story. The series follows pop group Steps' H as he embarks upon a musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. The sequence illustrates H's journey from pop megastar to ...
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VFG hire in administration
VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...
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Frow: life lesson shows are losing appeal
Lifestyle shows that attempt to tell people how to run their lives are losing their appeal, according to Ben Frow, the former Channel 4 commissioner behind hits including How Clean is Your House?
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Siemens appointees
Siemens Business Services has appointed Kevin Newport head of media and entertainment business development while Craig Dwyer is to lead media and entertainment solutions. Newport, a former BBC executive producer, joins Siemens from Cable and Wireless.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Finn Arnesen
Senior vice-president original animation and acquisitions Cartoon Network, Toonami, Boomerang and EMEA international head of programme production on his admiration for Spongebob Squarepants
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Hartswood in Australian co-pro comedy
Hartswood Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Carrie and Barry, has started shooting its latest comedy series, Supernova, in Australia. A co-production with Fox World Australia, the 6 x 30-minute BBC2 series is about a team of astronomers working in the desert. ...
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Promax UK awards
Promax UK is launching its annual student awards aimed at promoting the broadcast promo and marketing industry within colleges and universities. The competition involves challenging students to brand and promote a celebrity showdown format or an idea of their own choosing. The 2005 Promax Student Awards competition is being run ...
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BBC hires Davie
The BBC has appointed Tim Davie, vice-president, marketing and franchise at PepsiCo Europe, as its new director of marketing, communications and audiences. Davie will join the BBC executive board in the next few months, replacing Andy Duncan who quit to run Channel 4. One of his first tasks will be ...
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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 ...