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Granada revives head of comedy role
Granada has appointed its first head of comedy for more than five years, handing the job to a former producer of The Grimleys and Stan the Man.
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ITV creates news chief for regions
ITV has restructured the management of its news division creating a new role overseeing all the companies' 11 regional news services.
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Rogue trader to play celebrity poker
Flextech channel Challenge has lined up rogue trader Nick Leeson, Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray and Tom Parker Bowles for a new series of Celebrity Poker Club. Indie Presentable is making the 9 x 90-minute series, which will air from the end of June. The executive producers for Challenge are ...
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Celador racks up global format sales
Celador International has secured a raft of sales for three of its key formats. Talking Telephone Numbers has been picked up by producer TV Prava, which will produce a local series for RTS. The Brainiest format has been licensed to TVN in Poland for 10 x 60-minute series, ...
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Bryce to head Gold
Capital Radio has handed Xfm managing director Graham Bryce responsibility for its Capital Gold network. Bryce was recently parachuted in to take the managing director position at Capital's recent£15m acquisition, Choice FM. He replaces Lynn Long, who will focus more on Capital's FM network around the country, as regional managing ...
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Bravo buys Guns 'n' Roses inspired sitcom
Bravo has bought an animated sitcom staring guitarist Slash from rock band Guns 'n' Roses. The 8 x 30-minute Kid Notorious , from Comedy Central, is voiced by Robert Evans, the Hollywood producer behind The Godfather, Chinatown and ...
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Comedy cash boost
Comedian Tony Burgess has won a£6,000 bursary to become the first comedy writer in residence at BBC Manchester. Burgess, who co-wrote Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich with Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, will work closely with the comedy unit to develop his ...
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UK Post board looks to regions
The board nominations for UK Post, the Department of Trade and Industry-backed trade body, have been finalised and it is not just the usual Soho suspects that feature. While the 35 shortlisted candidates include chief executives and managing directors such as David Jeffers of MPC, William Sargent of Framestore CFC, ...
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Beckhams threaten Sky over interview
Lawyers acting for David and Victoria Beckham and his former agency SFX have threatened BSkyB with legal action over its exclusive interview with the woman who claimed she had an affair with him. Sky One's heavily publicised interview with Rebecca Loos, David Beckham's former assistant at SFX, is due to ...
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The BBC's ratings war
The BBC might argue that it's damned if it does and damned if it doesn't when it comes to ratings at the moment.
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BBC pledges to improve on indie relations
BBC acting commissioner for documentaries and contemporary factual Tom Archer has admitted his department has been failing indies and has pledged to introduce a clearer and quicker commissioning system by June.
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Lads to battle it out
Indie Prospect Pictures has been commissioned to make a live 180-minute special for UKTV Gold about whether Terry and Bob from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? or Gary and Tony from Men Behaving Badly were the 'best lads ...
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Williams to head St Anne's
St Anne's Post general manager Keith Williams has been confirmed as the new managing director of the company following the sudden departure of Bruce Everett, who has left to return to his previous career as a film and television post-producer.
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Ancient Egyptians on route to Japan
Ancient egyptians, Wall to Wall's award-winning£6m historical documentary series, is set to be screened in Japan, writes Colin Robertson.
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Five factual series to analyse rare diseases
Five is to launch a factual strand focusing on unusual diseases and has commissioned Lion Television and Landmark Films to produce the first batch, writes Michael Rosser.
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Discovery orders al-qaida documentary
October Films has been commissioned by Discovery Europe to produce a fast turnaround documentary on the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid. The one-hour special will examine the events of 11 March in which a suspected al-Qaida bomb killed more than 190 train passengers. Relatives of victims and investigators will be ...
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Latin america to air without prejudice?
Channel 4 gameshow Without Prejudice is to be remade for viewers in Latin America. The 12 Yard format has been sold by Screentime Partners to Buenos Aires-based producer RGB Entertainment. The hidden-camera format, which gives a cash prize to members of the public based ...
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Beam.TV and IMD pioneer digital ad delivery
Beam.tv and Independent Media Distribution (IMD) last week became the first companies in the UK to digitally deliver a television commercial to a broadcaster via the internet when a Nestle commercial was delivered via an end-to-end digital IP network to Viacom-owned MTV, writes Rick Dacey.
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S4C rejigs team in bid to boost co-pros
Welsh channel S4C has reshuffled its international team as part of a bid to shift its focus onto co-productions, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 commissions shaken babies film
Channel 4 editor, education and science Simon Dickson has ordered a 60-minute documentary on the recent controversy surrounding shaken babies from Films of Record in association with Pillarbox. The working-titled Beyond Reasonable Doubt will be directed by Juliet Murray and Clarissa Kindred and executive produced by Roger Graef and Clare ...