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ITV sells prop hire firm for£8.2m
ITV has sold its prop hire business Superhire Limited for£8.2m as part of its drive to dispose of non-core assets. The sale, made to privately owned company Space Holdings Ltd and which includes a substantial freehold property deal, will be used to reduce ITV's borrowings. ITV has raised£268m from non-core ...
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Tiger's 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 picked up by UPN
Tiger Aspect's comedy drama 20 Things To Do Before You're 30has been picked up for adaptation by US cable network UPN.
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Musicians Channel goes 24 hours a day
The Musicians Channel, the digital channel dedicated to music education, has moved to a 24-hour service on Sky Digital. The new hours will include new content such as footage of live festivals, new unsigned acts, studio shows and 'character-driven factual programmes' every Sunday night. The channel has ...
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Enteraction buys into a 3G future
Enteraction TV, the company that runs Thomas Cook TV and the new London TV channel, -has bought interactive specialist Red Fig in a deal worth an estimated£3m.
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ArenaP3 gets a gap year job
ArenaP3 has completed post-production on the BBC documentary series Grown Up Gappers. The 8 x 40-minute programmes follow the lives of eight people who step off the treadmill of daily routine to explore the world as travellers. Colourist Blair Wallace graded the series on Pogle Platinum ...
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Pett pilots female comedy for BBC3
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's indie Pett Productions is making a female-led comedy show for BBC3. TittyBangBang, devised by Mortimer and Pett co-owner Lisa Clark, is a 30-minute comedy sketch pilot with a cast of new female comic talent. Jill Parker, who recently worked on Steve ...
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C4 to air British Asian Music Awards
Channel 4 has acquired the broadcast rights for the British Asian Music Awards, which take place in London next month. On the shortlist is Nitin Sawhney for best performer. The show will be produced by indie Zeal TV and will feature performances from British Asian artists. The hour-long show was ...
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C4 hunts big ideas
Channel 4 has set aside a further£10m to help pay for ambitious programme ideas over the next year. Chief executive Andy Duncan said he and director of television Kevin Lygo would allocate the cash to a few 'really big ideas' each year rather than a swathe of smaller projects. These ...
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Abraham moves to top job in US
Discovery Networks UK general manager David Abraham has been appointed to run TLC in the US in a bid to turn round the struggling channel.
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Adams Trainor titles Arctic job
Adams Trainor has designed the branding and titles for CBBC's Serious Arcticfollowing award-winning expeditions to the jungle and desert. The series takes eight young teens into the Arctic to take part in a global warming research project. Designers Paul Trainor and Miles Christensen composited live action ...
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Telewest, Nickelodeon agree new deal
Nickelodeon has ended its stand-off with cable provider Telewest after agreeing new carriage terms for its four channels. The deal sees Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Nick Replay and Nicktoons available to all Telewest subscribers until the end of March, after which Nicktoons will be part of the second-tier Essential package and ...
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Sky One to screen air crash docu-drama
Sky One has bought a drama-documentary that will investigate one of the biggest aeroplane disasters in history. Crash of the Centuryinvestigates the collision of two planes in Tenerife in 1977, in which 583 people died. The 90-minute piece is being made by Canadian production company Cineflix ...
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Bravo to air next series of Alias in UK
Bravo has retained exclusive rights to Alias, taking the spy drama show into its fourth season. The 22 x 60-minute series sees the return of Jennifer Garner as CIA agent Sydney Bristow, and will air in the UK on the Flextech-owned channel from April.
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BBC appoints news chief to lead Broadcast sale
The BBC has appointed BBC news chief operating officer Peter Phillips to oversee the summer sale of BBC Broadcast, squashing trade union Bectu's hopes of keeping Broadcast's 1,000 staff at the corporation.
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Shennan brought in to Asian Network
Bob Shennan, controller of BBC Radio Five Live, has been handed responsibility for the digital station Asian Network, following recommendations that the channel should strengthen its news coverage. Vijay Sharma, manager of Asian Network, will continue to oversee daily operations but Shennan will represent the station at controller meetings.
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My Summer of Love wins top Bafta
The BBC-backed feature film My Summer of Lovetook the best British film award at the Bafta Film Awards. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, the film beat fellow nominees Shaun of the Dead, Vera Drake, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanand ...
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Bannister leaves Five Live late show
Matthew Bannister has quit his late-night show on Radio Five Live to spend more time with his children following the death of his wife. The former controller of BBC Radio 1 had been on compassionate leave since the end of last year to support his terminally ill wife, who died ...
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Worldwide takes BBC food to mid east
BBC Worldwide has signed a carriage deal to take its culinary channel BBC Food to the Middle East. Dubai-based pay-TV platform Showtime will now add the service to its line-up, which is currently available to more than 300,000 subscribers in over 20 territories in the region. BBC Food was launched ...
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MacKenzie lays out bid for TWG
Shareholders in The Wireless Group were this week asked to consider a proposal from chief executive and chairman Kelvin MacKenzie to take the company private.
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Joey scores big for Five
Five's launch of US import Joeywas an instant rating success, with the sitcom becoming the channel's highest rated show ever outside sports or films.