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Rugby wins 8.9m
BBC1's coverage of the Six Nations rugby union clash between Wales and England on Sunday (6 February) was watched by an average of 6.7 million viewers (33%). Six Nations Grandstand, which ran from 5.15pm to 7.20pm, peaked at 7.10pm with 8.9 million (40%). The event beat ...
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Big Bro boosts ads
Channel 4's recent reality series Celebrity Big Brotherhas helped push television advertising revenues to a five-year high, according to a new report by media buying agency Starcom Group. The agency said that the show, which pulled in 4 million viewers, helped to boost the overall level ...
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Broadcast and skillset aid TV workers
Broadcastand Skillset are launching a scheme to help TV professionals improve their chances of getting a job. The Win A Mentor initiative will see two people receive guidance from an experienced tutor. Anyone working in TV looking to change career direction or new entrants to the industry should go to ...
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Airborne hires ID to push bra doc
Airborne TV has appointed ID Distribution to handle international sales of documentary ...
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Airey tops bill at this year's Miptv
Dawn Airey, managing director of Sky Networks, is to deliver the keynote speech at this year's MipTV programme market in Cannes. Her speech, titled 'Fast Forward to TV 2015', will focus on the growing importance of new technologies such as PVRs. It will also examine new emerging business models. This ...
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BIG hires Akhtar for factual commissions
Bristol indies Available Light, Icon Films, Quickfire Media and Testimony Films have stepped up their collaborative efforts by appointing a development producer to bid for large-scale commissions.
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Jump make Ant and Dec leap
Jump has designed and produced the titles for the new series of ITV1's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The sequence shows Ant and Dec performing superhuman feats to reach the studio. They run down a street before leaping on to a skip that launches them ...
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Auschwitz documentary sold to Germany
BBC Worldwide has sold its landmark series on Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz to nearly 12 countries, including Germany. Public broadcaster NDR has bought 'Auschwitz: The Nazis'and 'The Final Solution'
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BBC worldwide feeds BBC food to norway
BBC Worldwide has signed a new carriage deal with UPC Norway to take its three-year-old cable channel BBC Food. The move adds over 31,000 households to the channel's reach, which now totals 1.7 million across Africa and Nordic Europe. The channel features celebrity chefs and airs programmes such as ...
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Six houses test tapeless for BBC
The BBC has selected six post-production companies to help test how it will pipe sound and pictures around the country without the expense of using videotape.
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BBC post wins in NY
BBC Post Production picked up a Gold World Medal at the 2005 Television Programming and Promotion Competition in New York for its special effects in BBC Broadcast's title sequence for the Olympic Games. The sequence, which followed an Olympic torch-bearer as he is confronted by elemental god-like forces, was worked ...
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Biggest Loser heads for Living TV
Living TV has picked up US format The Biggest Loserfrom Reveille productions, the producer behind the US version of The Office.
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Blair to face public grilling on Five
Five has gained exclusive access to prime minister Tony Blair as part of a series of programmes in which senior political figures face questions from the public. Talk to Your Prime Ministerwill be the first in the series, which will begin this month and be produced ...
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Phillis joins ITV plc board
ITV plc has appointed the chief executive of Guardian Media Group Bob Phillis as non-executive director.
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Smith & Watson builds property show
Devon-based indie Smith & Watson Productions has landed a property commission for Discovery Home and Leisure. The 10 x 30-minute Building a Dreamwill follow four house-build projects and is due to air in the autumn. Nick Smith is producer with Discovery's Leonie Hutchinson as executive producer.
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Buyback ok for ITV
ITV has been given the green light by shareholders to buy back shares from smaller US investors - a move that it hopes will save it millions of pounds. The£3.5m buyout will see ITV acquiring back the stakes of about 600 shareholders in the US, who each own fewer than ...
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Marsh picked for Celeb Poker
Sports pundit Rodney Marsh, fired last month for making a joke about the tsunami disaster on Sky Sports, has been signed up to appear on Challenge's third series of Celebrity Poker Club.
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Elstein to be Digital Classics chairman
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has been named chairman of arts programming distributor Digital Classics. Digital Classics owns a library of concert footage by artists including Miles Davis, and is valued at£9m.
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Patscheck steps in at sci-fi channel
Universal Studios has parachuted in Steven Patscheck, vice-president of programming, Universal Latin America and Brazil, to run the UK Sci-Fi channel until a new president has been hired. He takes over from Dan Marks, who left on Friday for BT. Patscheck will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the ...
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New chief for Granada ent in Manchester
Granada producer Rachel Ashdown, the programme-maker behind ITV1's new entertainment show Celebrity Wrestling, is to replace Heather Coogan as head of entertainment in Manchester.