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ITV sales arm reaches out to poland
ITV programme sales arm Granada International has agreed a deal to supply a package of TV movies to TV Polska Channel 1. The Polish broadcaster has taken seven movies including Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, Hollywood Wives and Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack.
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Royal approval
Software developer Curious and wireless camera innovator Link Research have each been rewarded for business innovation with the Queen's Award for Enterprise. Curious, an eight-person software company based in London, received its award for its World Map software, which enables users to create broadcast quality still and animated maps. Link ...
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Ant and Dec's takeaway sold to Belgians
ITV's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is to be made for Belgium. Granada International has agreed a licence deal with TeVe Company, which will make a version of the show for VTM Belgium. VTM will keep the same format as the British version but the Geordie duo will be ...
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BBC makes teen version of little angels
The BBC is to make an 8 x 30-minute spin-off series of Little Angels, in which parents are given tips on how to deal with their children. Teen Angels, which will air first on BBC3 and then transfer to BBC1, will feature experts giving advice to parents and their unruly ...
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Performance to air eastwood interview
The Performance Channel general manager Bob Lynton has bought another two years' worth of Inside the Actors' Studio.The deal is for 50 new episodes, which include interviews with Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood. Lynton originally commissioned 26 x 60-minute episodes in 2001, featuring in-depth interviews with actors such as Gwyneth ...
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ITV fields Parky against football
ITV stunned the BBC this week by recruiting veteran chat show host Michael Parkinson to join its Saturday night line-up.
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DGP adds dvd site
Soho facility DGP is adding a second site to allow it to do more DVD work at its current premises. Last year, the company produced masters for over 60 million DVDs. The company is the only Warner Bros DVD affiliate in the UK and uses its recommended Toshiba authoring kit. ...
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Tony Martin set to appear in C4 film
Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer who was jailed for killing a 16-year-old burglar, is to take part in a Channel 4 documentary, which looks at the downside of life in the country, writes Glen Mutel.
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Channel 4 plans Shameless Christmas
Channel 4 has commissioned a 90-minute Christmas special of its hit drama Shameless. The Paul Abbott-scripted show, made by Company Pictures, will start filming in two weeks' time. C4 head of drama John Yorke commissioned the show. A second series of 8 x 60-minute episodes is also in production.
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C4 boss slams top slicing BBC licence fee
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has said he is opposed to top slicing the BBC's licence fee as a future means of funding.
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Top-class athletics returns to C4
Channel 4 has landed the rights to show the highlights of this year's International Association of Athletics Federations Golden League meetings - the first time the sport has appeared on C4 since 1998. VTV will produce six half-hour highlights shows to be aired on selected Saturday mornings between June and ...
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4 Ventures adds Hoegh
Channel 4's commercial arm, 4 Ventures has appointed Thomas Hoegh to its board as a non-executive director. His appointment coincides with that of C4 chairman Luke Johnson, who also becomes a non-executive director. Hoegh is currently chief executive officer of Arts Alliance, an international venture capital company, which has backed ...
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BBC4 invites tenders for media show
The tender document for BBC4's new media show is expected to be sent out to indies next week. Written pitches for the show, which will be overseen by former Newsnight editor George Entwistle, are due by the end of May with shortlisting and the choosing ...
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RDF chief reveals aim to sell or float indie by 2007
RDF Media will either float on the stock market or be sold by summer 2007, according to the indie's chief executive, David Frank.
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ITV1 doc boasts abba exclusives
Reclusive Abba star Agnetha Faltskog has given her first major interview since the break-up of the band in 1981 in a major ITV1 documentary. The 90-minute Super Troupers - 30 Years of Abba, made by indie Iambic, will also feature fellow band member Frida Lyngstad singing Dancing Queen for the ...
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ITV secures F1 motor racing until 2010
ITV has secured a five-year deal, believed to be worth£150m, to cover Formula 1 motor racing exclusively in the UK - keeping the sport on the channel until 2010. The deal also includes a clause which allows the broadcaster to show coverage of races on sister channels ITV2 and the ...
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China Blue adds£250,000 ProTools HD studio
Audio post house China Blue is investing nearly£250,000 in constructing a 5.1 ProTools HD studio with the aim of bolstering client retention, writes Rick Dacey
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NewsBBC pledge on arts and current affairs
The BBC this week revealed plans to put greater focus on arts and current affairs programmes on its main services over the next year, as it gears up for its Charter review battle.
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NewsSmaller indies join forces
The growth of 'super-indies' such as RDF and Wall to Wall has sparked a wave of collaboration among smaller indies desperate to improve their profit margins and negotiating power.
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NewsBBC and ITV to bid for live Premier matches
The BBC and ITV are set to go head to head for the rights to six to eight Premiership football matches after NTL, Telewest and Irish pay-tv company Setanta dropped out of the running.