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RDFI Band Aid deal
RDF International has picked up distribution rights to the documentary Band Aid: the Song that Rocked the World. Produced by Blakeway Productions, the 60-minute programme marks the 20th anniversary of the Band Aid charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas?and was originally ...
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BBC America open to offers from UK indies
New BBC America chief executive Bill Hilary has said there will be more opportunities for UK indies after pledging to double the channel's budget over the next two years.
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BBC turns to virtual camera to spread rugby's appeal
BBC Sport is to pioneer a new virtual stadium technology in the Six Nations Rugby Championship next week in an effort to maintain the popularity of the game after the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
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ITV plans two more audiences with...
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned two further An Audience with...specials featuring I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!winner Joe Pasquale and 'pub landlord' comedian Al Murray. The shows, which are expected to air on ITV1 from March, will ...
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Barnett joins MTV
Sarah Barnett has quit as director of the Edinburgh International TV Festival to join MTV in the newly created role of head of affiliate marketing for the MTV and VH1 channels. Starting in March, Barnett will report to James Scroggs and Anna Bateson, directors of MTV and VH1 channels respectively. ...
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Red Battlefield job
Manchester-based Red Vision has successfully won the pitch for the BBC sequel to Battlefield Britain. The follow-up to the Peter Snow-fronted show will focus on international battles. Red Vision managing director David Mousley said early graphics work had begun and that its Legion software was being ...
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BBC orders greig-fronted rom-com
The BBC has commissioned a romantic comedy drama starring Green Wingactress Tamsin Greig and The Wonder Years'Michael Landes. The 6 x 60-minute Love Soup, written by David Renwick, whose credits include Jonathan Creekand One ...
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Electric Sky shifts BBC tsunami doc
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made several sales of the BBC's Asian tsunami documentary, The Killer Wave. The 52-minute special, broadcast earlier this month, has been picked up by broadcasters in six countries including the US.
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BBC Worldwide lines up shows for US
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to bring British comedy, drama and factual programming to video-on-demand viewers in the US. Akimbo Systems, which offers content via broadband, signed a deal at this week's Natpe market for content such as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroyand ...
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Casino threat to BBC media centre
The proposed conversion of Alexandra Palace into a new media campus has been thrown into doubt by the BBC reviews and interest from the gambling industry.
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Red finishes BBC promotion
Red Post-Production has completed work on a pioneering interactive television production for the BBC, cross-promoting BBC 1Xtra's radio coverage of the Trinidad Carnival with the red-button service on digital TV platforms. Red Inferno artist Ally Burnett created transitions using elements from carnival footage, which were animated in Inferno with a ...
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Grade on BBC News
BBC chairman Michael Grade has said the corporation should make news programmes that are both serious and popular, despite conceding serious news values were coming under 'increasing strain'. Delivering the inaugural Hugh Cudlipp lecture in London this week, he admitted there may have been confusion in the past as to ...
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Mersey PSB bid
Mersey Television chairman Phil Redmond said this week he planned to launch his grassroots digital public service channel on the Sky platform in the autumn. The not-for-profit Liverpool-based channel, to be called the North West Digital Platform, will be fully funded by the North West Development Agency for five years. ...
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UK Post sets up broadcast working group
UK Post chiefs have set up a broadcast working group to confront the issues facing the sector ahead of impending changes at the BBC.
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Broadcast surveys
Equipment resellers and television studio bosses are being sought by Broadcastfor two special magazine reports. Reseller Survey 2005 and TV Studios 2005 will feature statistics, analysis and business features that explore the size and condition of the reseller and studio markets. Both reports will be published ...
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Canada's Cineflix opens London office
Canadian-based producer/distributor Cineflix has set up a London office and poached Outline Productions managing director Simon Lloyd to run it.
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Celebs pick top TV moments for UKTV
UKTV has asked celebrities to recall their favourite TV moments for a 60-minute show to air across eight of its 10 channels. Commissioned by director of network programming Charlotte Ashton, TV Firstsis made by Prospect Pictures and is part of a season celebrating TV. It will ...
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Chancellor on the Community Channel
Channel 4 Newsanchor Jon Snow is to interview chancellor Gordon Brown as part of a series of high-profile interviews for charity service the Community Channel. The 4 x 30-minute series, The Jon Snow Interviews, will air from the end of February, as part of the channel's ...
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Daytime chief quits Sky One
Sky One commissioning editor for daytime Zoe Watson has quit after nearly four years with the broadcaster.
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Julian Clary format sells to Russia
Distraction Formats has secured a raft of new deals for three of its shows. In the Dark, the UK format hosted by Julian Clary on ITV in 1996, will be remade by Russia's Muz TV. TPI in Indonesia has also taken the format, in which three ...