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ITV2 to look at ?out there' lifestyles
ITV2 is to launch its first documentary strand, Extraordinary Lives, which will focus on stories of people living unusual or edgy lifestyles.
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Cheesbrough: BBC to move to HD by 2010
All BBC programmes will be made in high definition by the end of the decade, according to the corporation's head of technology production, Paul Cheesbrough.
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Most Identical sells to Spain's TV3
Television Corporation International has sold Mentorn's factual format Most Identicalto Spanish network TV3. The show, which hunts for the nation's most identical set of twins, will be produced by Madrid-based Four Luck Banana and will run over three one-hour episodes. The format and completed show, originally ...
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C4 and IWC join up to help new TV talent
Channel 4 and IWC Media is asking writers and directors to submit ideas for their new talent scheme, Coming Up. Eight ideas, which should be contemporary and aimed at a young, urban audience, will be made into 30-minute films and will broadcast on C4 later in the year. Writers should ...
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Celador to woo over-50s for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned Celador Productions to make 40 episodes of a nostalgia-based quiz show as part of a strategy to attract older viewers to its daytime line-up.
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C4 puts volunteers through torture
Channel 4 is set to test the effects of modern torture techniques in The Guantánamo Guidebookfrom Brat Camp producer Twenty Twenty. Seven volunteers will be subjected to practices allegedly used at the US military camp in Guantánamo Bay. Slated for a late-night slot this year, the ...
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Newman hails new era of C4 primetime
Channel 4 head of entertainment Andrew Newman has unveiled a brace of new Friday night shows after spending the past year piloting ideas.
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C4 cracks 4m with Da Vinci Code
Channel 4's marathon investigation into the claims made in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Codebrought the broadcaster an audience of over 4 million.
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Rugby wins 8.9m
BBC1's coverage of the Six Nations rugby union clash between Wales and England on Sunday (6 February) was watched by an average of 6.7 million viewers (33%). Six Nations Grandstand, which ran from 5.15pm to 7.20pm, peaked at 7.10pm with 8.9 million (40%). The event beat ...
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Big Bro boosts ads
Channel 4's recent reality series Celebrity Big Brotherhas helped push television advertising revenues to a five-year high, according to a new report by media buying agency Starcom Group. The agency said that the show, which pulled in 4 million viewers, helped to boost the overall level ...
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Broadcast and skillset aid TV workers
Broadcastand Skillset are launching a scheme to help TV professionals improve their chances of getting a job. The Win A Mentor initiative will see two people receive guidance from an experienced tutor. Anyone working in TV looking to change career direction or new entrants to the industry should go to ...
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Airborne hires ID to push bra doc
Airborne TV has appointed ID Distribution to handle international sales of documentary ...
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Airey tops bill at this year's Miptv
Dawn Airey, managing director of Sky Networks, is to deliver the keynote speech at this year's MipTV programme market in Cannes. Her speech, titled 'Fast Forward to TV 2015', will focus on the growing importance of new technologies such as PVRs. It will also examine new emerging business models. This ...
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BIG hires Akhtar for factual commissions
Bristol indies Available Light, Icon Films, Quickfire Media and Testimony Films have stepped up their collaborative efforts by appointing a development producer to bid for large-scale commissions.
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Jump make Ant and Dec leap
Jump has designed and produced the titles for the new series of ITV1's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The sequence shows Ant and Dec performing superhuman feats to reach the studio. They run down a street before leaping on to a skip that launches them ...
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Auschwitz documentary sold to Germany
BBC Worldwide has sold its landmark series on Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz to nearly 12 countries, including Germany. Public broadcaster NDR has bought 'Auschwitz: The Nazis'and 'The Final Solution'
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BBC worldwide feeds BBC food to norway
BBC Worldwide has signed a new carriage deal with UPC Norway to take its three-year-old cable channel BBC Food. The move adds over 31,000 households to the channel's reach, which now totals 1.7 million across Africa and Nordic Europe. The channel features celebrity chefs and airs programmes such as ...
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Six houses test tapeless for BBC
The BBC has selected six post-production companies to help test how it will pipe sound and pictures around the country without the expense of using videotape.
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BBC post wins in NY
BBC Post Production picked up a Gold World Medal at the 2005 Television Programming and Promotion Competition in New York for its special effects in BBC Broadcast's title sequence for the Olympic Games. The sequence, which followed an Olympic torch-bearer as he is confronted by elemental god-like forces, was worked ...
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Biggest Loser heads for Living TV
Living TV has picked up US format The Biggest Loserfrom Reveille productions, the producer behind the US version of The Office.