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Extreme takes rights to us soldiers doc
Indie Extreme Entertainment has picked up the international distribution rights for its first high-end factual series from the US. Off to War follows 57 citizen soldiers from Arkansas as they leave their normal lives as National Guardsmen behind to fight in Iraq. Film-makers Brent and ...
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Todd-AO posts Winstone drama
Todd-AO Creative Services has completed post-production on She's Gone for ITV1. The 120-minute drama, which was shot on 16mm, follows Ray Winstone's character as he searches for his missing daughter in Istanbul. Film editor John Stottart oversaw the editing process. The online and confirm were ...
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Sky One orders Easycruise show
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.
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Sky fits out news ops with Sony kit
Sky News is kitting out five more of its major news bureaux with Sony tapeless camera technology, it was announced at IBC this week.
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Format focus: the immortals
In Endemol's new format, ageing rockers hand over their songs to a new generation of musicians.
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Norway picks up fremantle formats
Norwegian broadcasters have ordered a raft of new Fremantle Media formats, including BBC2 lifestyle show The Life Laundry. NRK has commissioned a series of the springclean format and is currently hunting a local producer. ITV1 match-making show Farmer Wants ...
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Phillis gets RTS role
Guardian Media Group chief executive Sir Bob Phillis has been appointed president of the Royal Television Society. He takes over from Will Wyatt, who steps down after four years at the helm.
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Thomson man goes
Manufacturer Thomson Grass Valley's UK managing director and sales director, David Philips, has left the company suddenly and is now on gardening leave. Jan Looijmans, sales director for the Benelux region, has stepped in to assume the role of sales director, northern Europe and Benelux. Thomson Grass Valley global communications ...
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LPC loses its MD
Managing director Maurizio Cimelli has left London Playout Centre (LPC) after 11 years at the facility - three of which as managing director. Bob Gentry, the director of network services, will fill the slot for the immediate future. Cimelli started at LPC as finance controller when it was owned by ...
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ITV's profits rise
ITV's pre-tax profits for the six months to 30 June were up 42% to£132m on turnover of£989m, chief executive Charles Allen announced last week. Allen also revealed that the over-35s channel ITV3 would launch on Freeview on 1 November and later on Sky.
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Jump in Millionaire makeover
Jump has completed a redesign of the titles and graphics for Celador's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Franchise holders in more than 90 countries will pick up the new design. Jump's senior designers, Russell Hilliard and Russell Mann, designed the sequence, while the 3D ...
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Wife Swap USA in peak
Channel 4 has handed RDF Media a primetime slot for Wife Swap USA when it launches in the UK early next year. Wife Swap USA , made out of RDF's New York office for ABC, is the fourth American RDF ...
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UP Satellite in UK
Ascent Media Group chief executive Ken Williams has predicted that there will be an upsurge in commercials finished in digital intermediate and even more growth in feature films. As a result, Ascent plans to put forward UP Satellite in the UK, a service currently available at Ascent companies in the ...
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NewsDyke: what I would have moved north
Greg Dyke was planning to move Radio 5 Live, BBC3, CBBC and CBeebies and half of the BBC's new media operation to Manchester before he was forced out of the director general's job in the aftermath of Hutton.
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NewsThreats fly in format war
Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.
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NewsTroubled EastEnders calls in Holby producer
The BBC has drafted in a Holby City producer to deputise for EastEnders ' under-fire executive producer, Louise Berridge, and take over much of the day-to-day running of the soap.
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NewsPriest Idol show given C4's blessing
Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.
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CanWest enters bid for FM licence
Canadian media giant CanWest is looking to take a slice of the UK radio market with a bid for an FM licence in Manchester.
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Village people's gay test
Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.
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Talkback lifestyle formats sell to US
Talkback Productions' new lifestyle shows Too Posh to Wash and The Sex Inspectors are to be remade for US audiences.