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May date for GWR and Capital merger
GWR and Capital Radio have said they expect to complete their merger by early May, although they have lost one of the key architects of the union. Nathalie Schwartz, Capital's strategy and development director, will leave at the end of this month with no job to go to. In its ...
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NewsDick and Dom to front quiz show
Dick and Dom, the BBC children's presenters who were recently singled out by a Tory MP for lavatorial humour, are to make a move to primetime with a new BBC2 quiz show. Dick and Dom's Ask the Family, which will air in an early evening slot ...
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BBC announces plans for division sale
The BBC has said it intends to sell its BBC Broadcast playout and transmission arm by 1 July. A shortlist of bidders will be selected in April with a preferred bidder chosen by early June. The asset is likely to fetch up to£150m. Likely bidders include a venture capital- backed ...
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Joey to kick off Five's comedy Zone
Five is to launch its Comedy Zone on Sunday 13 February with a double bill of US imports Joeyand Two and a Half Men. The Friendsspin-off, believed to have cost Five£450,000 an episode, will launch the new zone ...
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ITV signs£1m beer sponsorship deal
ITV has signed a£1m deal which will see Cobra beer sponsor more than 300 movies on ITV2 and ITV3 this year. The project, titled CobraVision, will also invite movie-makers to submit short films that will air in the breaks of the main feature. It will launch on 31 January with ...
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Liberty Bell allotted BBC2 show
Liberty Bell Productions, the indie behind the hit BBC show Grumpy Old Men, has been commissioned to make a BBC2 daytime series about allotments.
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Hi De Hi inspires C4 reality series
Brat Campindie Twenty Twenty Television is to recreate the low-brow camp of Hi De Hias part of a new reality series for Channel 4.
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C4's Bromwell High toon Heads for Oz
Channel 4's new multicultural animated series Bromwell Highhas been picked up by the ABC and Comedy Channel in Australia. The 13 x 20-minute series, co-produced by Hat Trick and Decode Entertainment, follows three unruly girls in a London school.
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Blue posts surgery series for C4
Blue has completed the grade and online editing for Channel 4's Ancient Plastic Surgery. The Cicada Films documentary examines what early civilisations knew about cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Online editor and colourist Bill Ogden graded and onlined in Avid DS Nitris using The Foundry's Anvil grading ...
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Curtis pens G8 tale
Love Actuallywriter Richard Curtis is to write his first drama for the BBC with a 90-minute special set at a G8 summit. The Girl in the Caféwill air this summer as part of the corporation's season of programmes about Africa. Produced in association with US cable ...
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PRIME ADDS CAMERAS
Broadcast hire company Prime Television has invested£30,000 in 12 new Sony HVR-Z1 high-definition cameras and three recorders, which it will be showing at Broadcast's Engaging HD conference on 3 February at the Waldorf Hilton, London.
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Masterson sets up dedicated AFP firm
FORMER ITV2 commercial director Paul Masterson has set up a new production company dedicated to advertiser-funded programming.
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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.