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Frontier ties up film about Biggs
Frontier Posthas post-produced Ronnie Biggs: Last Escape?for Sky One. The 60-minute North One Television documentary charts the life of Ronnie Biggs, one of the criminals prosecuted for the Great Train Robbery of 1963. The story follows Biggs from his 1965 Wandsworth Prison ...
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Homechoice add-on
Broadband entertainment provider Video Networks has added London TV to its on-demand replay service. Subscribers to the HomeChoice platform can now access the channel run by branded TV specialists Enteraction TV and commissioned by Visit London, the official tourist organisation. London TV offers a guide to the capital for tourists ...
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Subliminal ads boost X Factor
The Australian version of Simon Cowell's The X Factorhas performed so badly that its host broadcaster has resorted to inserting subliminal advertising into other programmes to drum up interest.
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'Enders producer goes to Family Affairs
EastEndersproducer Sean O'Connor has quit to become the series producer of Five soap Family Affairs. O'Connor, who has previously series produced Hollyoaksand Footballers' Wives, will join the Thames-produced drama at the end of the month, replacing Alison Davies ...
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ID strikes shine distribution agreement
ID Distribution has made its first distribution deal with Liz Murdoch's indie, Shine. Shine's The Hunt, a 3 x 60-minute series for Sky One, will now be represented internationally by the distribution company, which was launched last year by former September Films US president Sally Miles. ...
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Five to air celebrity plastic surgery
Five is in talks with a celebrity to undergo breast enlargement for the next series of Cosmetic Surgery Live. The second series of the live nightly event promises operations such as penis enlargements and vaginal tightening. The two-week run, which airs later this spring, will be produced by Endemol production ...
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Ten Alps into music
Ten Alps, the indie co-founded by Sir Bob Geldof, is to launch a music events division and has poached BBC Radio 1 executive Matt Priest to run it. Priest, who spent nine years producing dance music shows at R1, will head Ten Alps Music Events and report to managing director ...
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Initial wins Andersen anniversary deal
Endemol-owned indie Initial has secured a multimillion-pound deal to produce a live event commemorating the 200th anniversary of Danish fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's birth.
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Farm appointment
Jannine Martin has been promoted to director of post-production at post facility group The Farm. Martin joined from Video London in 2000 and was the founding general manager of HD facility Home.
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Bristol arm for Off the Fence
Dutch factual producer and distributor Off the Fence is opening an office in Bristol to tap into the region's talent base.
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Discovery takes martial arts series
Zeal Television has sold BBC3 series Mind Bodyand Kick Ass Movesto Discovery Channel, taking the series into 100 territories. The 10 x 30-minute series, produced by indie August Productions, traces various martial arts styles. Discovery will air the show in spring.
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Australasian deals for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has secured a number of deals throughout Australasia including shifting nearly 30 hours of BBC factual programming, such as docu-dramas Krakatoaand Hiroshima, to Australia's Nine Network. New Zealand's TVNZ has picked up over 110 hours of factual, drama and children's ...
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BBC takes top iTV Bafta award for Spooks Interactive
SpooksInteractive won the top iTV accolade at last week's Bafta Games and Interactive Awards.
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Wilson backs station for older listeners
Former Factory Records boss Tony Wilson is backing an 'anti-chart' bid for a new Manchester radio licence.
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BBC faces court over Springer
The BBC is facing court action from the Christian Institute over its decision to screen the controversial play Jerry Springer - The Opera.
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Lynam returns to BBC with VE day show
Des Lynam is returning to BBC television to host a Surprise, Surprise-style show for the 60th anniversary of VE Day in May. The veteran anchorman will host We'll Meet Again, which will bring together wartime comrades. Lynam has also teamed up with ...
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Payout prompts BBC CD-ROM initiative
Independent producers have been given training CD-Roms by the BBC to help them decide whether payments to interviewees are justified. The news follows outrage over£4,500 paid to burglar Brendan Fearon to take part in a documentary commissioned by the BBC from indie Firefly.
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Ground Force ends as BBC starts review
Ground Forcehas become the first casualty of a major review of BBC programme-making. The make-over show has been axed by director general Mark Thompson - who commissioned it from Endemol when he was BBC2 controller. The move will be followed by in-depth reviews of journalism, drama, comedy, knowledge, children's and ...
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Iambic looks at life of the fifth Beatle
The turbulent life of the 'fifth Beatle' is being probed for a BBC documentary from Bristol-based indie Iambic.
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Birt to lecture
Former BBC director general John Birt has been lined up to give this year's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival (26-28 August). The choice comes as the government's green paper on the BBC's next Royal Charter is published. Birt attempted to influence the government's plans but his proposals, such ...