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MTV on series buying spree
MTV has commissioned a slate of new series, including a British version of car makeover show Pimp My Ride.
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Lipsync buys DI kit
Soho's Lipsync Post has bought a second Quantel iQ digital intermediate grading suite, totalling£3.5m of investment in digital intermediate over the past year. The new suite includes Truelight Calibration, 5.1 surround sound and a 12-foot screen, which is supported by Northlight film scanners and Arri-laser film recorders. Lipsync has recently ...
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Scot Sky News call
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has called for Sky News to launch a separate operation in Scotland, similar to that of its Sky News Ireland service which launched in May last year. SNP MSP Kenny MacAskill said that while Sky News has offices in Dublin and Limerick enabling two Irish ...
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Sky pushes set-top loyalty card
Sky subscribers will be able to shop, bet and earn loyalty points through a new credit card designed for use on their digital set-top boxes. BSkyB, which has been developing the technology with IT management consultancy Consult Hyperion, has informed all broadcasters who use its platform that the interactive card ...
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Chewing Gum wins development cash
Development company Chewing Gum has won£5,000 development money for the best interactive programme idea in a competition sponsored by Eckoh Technologies at Broadcast's Commissioning Conference in November. Chewing Gum's idea, Connections, is a programme combining genealogy and the web. Chewing Gum was set up by former Talkback Thames development producer ...
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Trisha to front outrageous TV clips on Five
Five is to extend its Greatest TV Momentsstrand and has secured new daytime signing Trisha Goddard to present the first of the new batch.
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Commissioner's Q & A
br>Extreme Sports Channel managing director Europe Phil Jones is looking for broader lifestyle coverage for existing viewers and thinks that Gumball 3000 opened the way to bringing in new audiences
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Granada/KQED join forces on Cousteau exploration series
Granada International has inked a deal to invest in and distribute a high-definition documentary series from Emmy-award winning marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau.
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Pop Idol-style dance show heads for US
Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment is to make a Pop Idol-style reality show for Fox in the US to find the country's best dancer. Under the working title Dance Nation, the live show will set competitors different challenges each week. Fuller, who created ...
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More dates for Princess
Indie Princess Productions has scored high-volume renewals for a dating format in America and Italy.
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RDFR in first-look deal with ZKK
RDF Rights (RDFR) has signed a first-look all-rights deal with factual indie ZKK that will see the Wife Swapproducer provide development funding for new programming and staff.
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Postman Pat makes more deliveries
Entertainment Rights (ER) has sold the new Postman Patseries to the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia. The deal, which will see the children's series air in the Nickelodeon channels' territories, takes the number of sales of Postman Patto 65 countries.
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New Diary entries for distraction
Distraction Formats has sold its TV Diariesformat to Ireland, Canada and the Middle East. The format, in which contestants attempt to submit the most interesting video diary to avoid elimination, has been picked up by RTE in the Republic of Ireland, Zone 3 in Canada and ...
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NewsWoolfe named as Flextech director of TV
Flextech has promoted Living TV and Bravo director of programmes Richard Woolfe to the new role of director of television.
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London figurehead ousted in Disney shake-up
Disney International has signalled a shift in power back to Los Angeles after its London-based president David Hulbert was ousted as part of a management shake-up.
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Tsunami triggers NGTI documentary sales
National Geographic Television International (NGTI) has made several sales of documentary Tsunami: Killer Wave, in the wake of the Asian disaster.
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Double order for September
Indie September Films has landed two new commissions, including a primetime special for ITV1 about nightmare nannies.
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Van Outen in drama
Former Big Breakfastpresenter and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is. Van Outen will play district nurse and single mum Kim Blakeney, who moves to rural Yorkshire to start a ...
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Lipsync puts images to eulogy
Lipsync Post has produced titles for and onlined Holocaust - A Music Memorial Filmfrom Auschwitzfor the BBC. The graphics had to be evocative yet appropriate to the subject matter. Senior designer Julia Blake and creative director Howard Watkins used After Effects to make the titles appear ...
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Format Focus: Face Off
This general knowledge knock-out format has done well in France and could soon reach UK shores. The format