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NewsI'm a Celebrity spin-off hits 6.7m
ITV1 cashed in on the popularity of reality show I'm a Celebrity as a spin-off show peaked with 6.7 million (34%) at 10.05pm.
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The good, bad and ugly
The combined share of multichannel viewing looks set to grow by some 11% this year, outstripping both BBC1 and ITV1 for the first time as the two main terrestrial channels continue to lose viewers year on year.
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ABC1 up on Telewest
ABC1, the UK entertainment channel owned by Walt Disney, will be available to Telewest digital TV customers as of Friday, 10 December. The US channel that includes in its portfolio shows such as Home Improvement and General Hospital , will ...
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SMG puts£1.3m into boosting OB
SMG Broadcast and Event Solutions, the production resources arm of SMG, has spent£1.3m bolstering its outside broadcast capabilities to help it compete with the quality of Sky Sports.
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Pepper spices up ITV1's Marple
Pepper has completed VFX work on the latest incarnation of OAP sleuth Miss Marple. Senior VFX artist Jamie Russell transformed summer scenes to a winter setting by adding backgrounds and winter mist. He also took Paddington station back to the 1930s by replacing modern-day elements with footage of gas lamps, ...
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ITV1 idents get festive makeover
The Hive has created new graphics for the ITV1 festive season. The network logo's blue and yellow blocks transform to become animated 'fairy-light characters' that flick around the screen. The CGI images will be incorporated into all the channel's idents and break bumpers throughout the Christmas period. Creative director Phil ...
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Emap spoofs 1970s for Kerrang!
Emap TV Design, Up Creative and Conkerco have produced idents for the Kerrang! music channel. The 4 x 30-second spots are based on 1970s public information broadcast warnings in a style reminiscent of Little Britain. The threat of caravan fatalities and rabies are parodied ...
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Discovery H&L orders for i2i
Indie i2i Television has been greenlit to make five series for Discovery Home & Leisure.
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Smooth operations lined up for R2 shows
Radio indie Smooth Operations has picked up a raft of commissions from BBC Radio 2. These include a six-part series on the history of comedy, a four-part series on plagiarism in music titled Same Old Song and a two-part programme to mark the 80th birthday ...
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All3Media does Serious business
Distributor All3Media International has scored further worldwide sales for children's environmental adventure strand Serious... as a fourth series is greenlit by the BBC.
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BBC rejects Barwise findings on BBC3 and 4
The BBC has rejected the key recommendation of a government-backed report that called for its digital television channels BBC3 and BBC4 to become more mainstream.
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Yipp gets C4 order about living with cancer
YIPP Films is to follow up its award-winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off with a Channel 4 film exploring the friendship of two men brought together through chemotherapy.
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C4 film probes US racists
Leopard Films is making a film for Channel 4 following an American attorney's quest to bring down a white supremacist group by getting most of its members served with the death penalty.
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C4 looks at what people do to get on TV
Channel 4 commissioning editor of factual entertainment Andrew MacKenzie has ordered a two-hour documentary I'll Do Anything to Get on TV from At It Productions, the company behind C4 youth strand T4. The programme will trace how members of the public have made it onto ...
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C4 News to air from Africa
Channel 4 News will broadcast live from Africa for a week next July to mark the 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland.
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Woodward to quit after C4 restructure
Channel 4 is to fold key chunks of commercial division 4 Ventures, such as E4, back into the main channel in a move that will see the departure of 4Ventures chief Rob Woodward.
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Action sports fest sold around globe
Distributor Extreme Entertainment has confirmed sales of the second annual LG Action Sports Championships to over 150 territories. The event, which features skateboarding, BMX and motocross, will be shown in the UK on British Eurosport. Other sales of the 8 x 52-minute series are in Europe, Asia, Australia, Japan and ...
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History Channel looks at life after demob
The History Channel has commissioned Oxford-based indie Red Admiral to produce Demob Happy. The hour-long documentary will tell the story of how Britain returned to peacetime following the surrender of Germany and later Japan in 1945. Produced by Red Admiral's Gail Downey, the programme ...
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Grade's idea for AGM
BBC chairman Michael Grade has proposed creating a 'virtual AGM' for viewers and listeners as part of further changes to the corporation's governance system. Grade said interactive technology could be used to link up viewers and governors across the country and also include an element of voting on key issues, ...
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Dunstall On Ascent
Award-winning titles, idents and branding designer Roisin Dunstall has left Blue to join Ascent Media's One Post. Her credits include on-air promos for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery and title sequences for The Bill and Dates from Hell. ...