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Screentime agrees crime format sales
Screentime Partners has made six new format sales of Lion TV's crime makeover reality show To Catch a Thief. Series commissions have been signed with New Zealand's TVNZ, Nederland 1/KRO in the Netherlands, Belgium's VTM and Russia's NTV. Further options have been signed with ...
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Flipside TV to air on Comedy Central
Nation 217's channel-hopping format Flipside TV is heading for Comedy Central in the US. It is hoped that Richard Bacon, who fronted the UK version for Nation 217 and then Channel 4, will be one of the US presenting team. The format has also been picked up by German producer ...
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BBC airs stem cell drama-doc
The BBC is to join the controversial debate on stem cell research by screening a drama-documentary in which viewers will be asked to decide the outcome, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC America snaps up holiday showdown
RDFI has sold both series of ITV1 show Holiday Showdown to US entertainment channel BBC America. The series, which totals 17 x 60 minutes, take two families on contrasting holidays with each other and films the explosive results. In addition, RDFI has sold 3 x 60-minute series ...
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Ofcom slaps fine on auction channel
Ofcom has ordered teleshopping channel Auctionworld to cough up£450,000 in the largest fine ever handed out by the media watchdog. The channel has also been told that steps to revoke its licence have begun. Action was taken after Auctionworld repeatedly failed to suspend price guides that were branded 'misleading and ...
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Big Bang begins
Big Bang Post Production has been opened in Bristol by Mastertracks owner Neil Hipkiss and online editor Tim Bolt. Dubbing mixer Hipkiss and Bolt have based the new company in the same building as Mastertracks. Bolt, who left Pinkhouse Post in July, will offer an online post-production capability with a ...
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Tapeless BBC will save cash on transfers
The BBC spends£8.5m a year transferring footage to and from tape.
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BBC post moves
BBC Post Production has granted greater autonomy to its Bristol and Birmingham sites with the appointment of facilities managers at the two operations. Stephen Reilly will join staff at the Mailbox in Birmingham, having performed a similar role at a large post house in New Zealand for the past five ...
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Saint's BBC job
Newly formed agency Saint has produced promos for BBC Broadcast, designing a package for BBC series Hard Spell. They were designed and art directed by Nicky Thompson from Saint and the 3D and compositing was done at The Hive. The promo's director was BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudior and the producer ...
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Celador scores two BBC series
Celador Productions, the indie behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, has scored its first commissions for BBC2 and 3.
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Hindi commentary for BBC Bhopal doc
The BBC is to provide an alternative commentary in Hindi to its landmark docu-drama on the Bhopal disaster, which viewers will be able to access by pressing the red button. Made by the in-house current affairs department, the 60-minute piece will air in a 9pm slot on BBC1 on
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RDF grabs rights to strongest boy doc
RDF Rights has picked up rights to the documentary World's Strongest Boy , which was produced by indie Firecracker Films. The hour-long programme, which secured an 11.9% share for Five in September, follows an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who can already lift three times his own ...
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Classic Brit films sold to Italian outfit
Granada International has sold a 30-strong package of classic British movies to new Italian satellite channel Sky Cine Classics. The films include several from the Korda, Rank and ITC collections, which were inherited by Granada when it merged with Carlton International. These include The Four ...
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Carter hired by Fremantle
Gary carter, the former Endemol executive behind the international roll-out of Big Brother , is to be given in a full-time senior role at Fremantle Media, writes As senior executive vice-president of worldwide entertainment, he will oversee the development of new shows and format ...
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Liquid's Celeb work completed
Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...
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Century opens Leeds office for drama push
Century Films, the producer of Channel 4's Pornography - The Musicaland Robbie Williams documentary Nobody Someday, is opening a regional office in Leeds to spearhead a push into drama.
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Challenge signs first CGTV show
Challenge is making its first foray into factual entertainment as part of its multimillion-pound co-production deal with recently launched US network Casino and Gaming TV (CGTV).
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Hewlett chairs fest
Former Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett is taking over from Fulcrum Television's Christopher Hird as chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Hewlett, a non-executive director at indie Tiger Aspect, is already one of the festival's patrons. The festival will go on tour in February, kicking off with a ...
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Mersey launches community digital channel
Mersey Television is launching a grassroots digital public service channel to create a 'stronger voice' for local community issues such as health and education and campaigns such as Fathers for Justice.
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A tale of two cities
Sending the BBC's children's operation to Manchester is not enough, and BBC3 should be in the mix.