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BBC appoints Young
The BBC has appointed Penny Young to the new post of head of accountability, nations and regions within the governance unit. Young takes up the role next week and will report to director of governance Nicholas Kroll. Her brief will include helping the BBC governors in their role as trustees ...
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BB exec to Granada
Granada has poached the Endemol series editor of Celebrity Big BrotherDavid Williams to join its entertainment division. Williams, who has also held the same role on the main Big Brotherseries, will work across a number of new projects for Granada in the ...
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New bids for BBC Broadcast
BT, Siemens and Crown Castle have joined the list of companies expected to bid for the BBC's£150m broadcast business.
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Format focus: Beauty and the Geek
Brainy nerds and dim beauties are thrown together to see if opposites really do attract in a new series from the exec producers of MTV's Punk'd
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Graf becomes chair of broadband group
The government's broadband advisory group has selected former Trinity Mirror chief executive Philip Graf to drive its broadband agenda.
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Bird lands at IBF
Commercial manager Tom Bird joins International Broadcast Facility (IBF) on Tuesday, 1 March after three months' gardening leave from Shooting Partners. Bird joins the Covent Garden company as business development manager.
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HD last call
High-definition producers could win C$25,000 (£10,600) at Canada's Banff World Television Festival. The prize is supplied by NHK, Japan's HD national broadcaster, which will award it to the world's best high definition programme. The deadline for entries is today (24 February). Further details can be found at ...
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Flame to light celebrity matches
Flame Television is to play celebrity matchmaker in a one-off special for digital channel ITV2. Celebrity Love Matchwill build up profiles of famous singletons, such as Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Robbie Williams, and then suggest their perfect partner. Daniela Neumann, controller of commissioned programmes for ...
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Sales leap for Charles doc
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' decision to tie the knot has sparked a surge of interest in Diverse Productions' ITV documentary Charles & Camilla.
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UK tops chart for illegal TV downloads
Britain is at the centre of an 'explosion' in TV piracy as viewers turn to the web to download US shows such as 24and The Simpsons.
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Charter green paper set for next week
The government's green paper on the BBC's next Charter is set to be published next week. The document, which will set out the government's proposals for the BBC's funding and purpose for the 10 years from 2006, was expected this week but sources suggested Lord Birt, a former BBC director ...
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Cineflix to make WWII co-production
Cineflix International, the London-based distribution arm of Canadian production company Cineflix, has signed up as a co-producer on a second world war documentary being made by UK indie 3BM Television. Ten Days to Victorywill interweave the stories of 10 people caught up in the liberation of ...
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Commissioners Q&A: Jacquie Lawrence
Sky One's commissioning editor, documentaries is looking for authored and observational films, has just sent Ross Kemp into gangland and would kill to have Cutting Edge
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Elstree owner to give up contract
Elstree Film and Television Studios (EF&TVS) will not bid to run the world-famous studios when the studios' lease goes on the market.
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Steiner takes new creative role at Lion
Lion TV has promoted development executive Mat Steiner to become its creative head. In the new role, Steiner will focus on developing formats, advertiser funded projects, entertainment shows and event programming. He joined Lion in 2003 from format producer and distributor Rose Bay, where he was managing director.
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De Mol ups stake in Hit
John de Mol has doubled his stake in Hit Entertainment, the indie behind Bob the Builder, fuelling speculation of a take-over bid.
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NTL/Flextech deal
NTL Broadcast has won the contract to distribute three Flextech Television channels. Ftn, Challenge +1 and Trouble Reload will be uplinked to NTL Broadcast's Eurobird transponder which will beam the channels to the Sky Digital platform. Ftn reaches 1 million viewers a month while games entertainment channel Challenge +1 has ...
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NewsDen's death is ratings triumph
The death of 'Dirty' Den Watts, which marked the 20th anniversary of BBC1's EastEnders, gained the soap its highest audience for a year.
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Westwood drives MTV makeover show
Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood is to host the UK version of Pimp My Ride, set to premier on MTV in late spring. Westwood will be the British answer to rap star Xzibit, the presenter of the original US show, which follows a crew of mechanics ...
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ER sells entire little red tractor to Oz
Entertainment Rights has sold the entire run of BBC pre-school animated series Little Red Tractorto Australia's Nine Network. The broadcaster has picked up all 52 episodes of the series, while licensing and merchandising rights for the region have been granted to Newman International Licensing. The deal ...