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NewsPEER POLL: Edinburgh TV festival
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is the Edinburgh TV festival relevant to the industry as a whole?
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The power of speech
When John Humphrys steps up to the McEwan Hall lectern to deliver the MacTaggart lecture - the centrepiece of the Edinburgh Television Festival - few expect him to mince his words.
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NewsSky rivals Elstein with Hallmark bid
BSkyB has tabled a bid to buy the Hallmark Channel in the UK. If successful it would be the first time in the satellite giant's 15-year history it has bought, rather than built, a channel.
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An Oasis for BBC1's Fat Nation
OASIS TELEVISION has finished post-production on trails for the BBC's Fat Nation - The Big Challenge. The series focuses on one street in Birmingham and the attempts by its many residents to turn their lifestyles around over eight weeks. The challenge is to reduce ...
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Sky Sports secures new-look A1 racing
Sky Sports has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the new Saudi-backed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing series. The network has secured the exclusive live UK rights to the practice sessions, qualifying rounds and races from autumn next year. The fledgling sporting event pitches drivers from 30 countries against each other ...
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Kirby seeks£2bn of savings at BBC
The man brought in by the BBC to help slash£2bn in costs over the next three years said he has identified four main areas where savings can be made.
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BBC3 to stage live opera in railway station
BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.
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CS&W produces teen court for C4
Scottish indie Caledonia Sterne and Wyld (CS&W) has won its first commission from its new London office with a Channel 4 show in which juveniles who have committed minor offences are tried and sentenced by fellow teenagers.
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C4 set to co-pro new Aussie soap
Channel 4 has teamed up with the maker of Australian soap Home and Away to co-produce a new teen soap.
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Flora funds IWC to make C4 health show
Indie IWC Media has entered the world of advertiser-funded programmes for the first time with a five-part series for Channel 4.
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Next Faking It series to debut on T4
Channel 4 has commissioned a 3 x 60-minute series of Faking It , from RDF Media, which will debut on its youth strand T4 before being shown again in peaktime. The new shows, skewed to a slightly younger audience, were commissioned by head of T4 ...
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BBC commissions more accidents
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has recommissioned Accidents Can Happen , which looks at what happens after disasters strike people's homes. The 20 x 60-minute series, which will again be presented by former EastEnders actress Nadia Sawalha, will look ...
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BBC Technology sale to go ahead
The sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens is expected to be completed by the end of next month after the main areas of contention with broadcasting union Bectu were resolved. Bectu had threatened strike action over the sale but now says that, despite still being opposed to it ...
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Galaxy to air Mobo
The Galaxy Network has secured live broadcast rights to the urban music Mobo Awards for the fifth year running. The commercial youth dance network, owned by Chrysalis, will report the winners as they are announced at the Royal Albert Hall on 30 September. Galaxy will also sponsor the best single ...
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Ten Alps animation
Ten Alps, the indie part-owned by Bob Geldof, has won funding for its first animation series. Red Welly, the indie's CGI division, has received the money for pre-school show Scooba Zooba from the European Union Regional Development Fund. It will fund scripts, storyboards and a ...
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Ames to frontline
Gavin Ames has joined Frontline Television as a senior editor. He leaves London Post after three and a half years at the TV Set Group company. Ames has worked on promos for the BBC, Channel 4 - including new drama NY-LON - and the MTV ...
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Cole joins Angelfish
Angelfish, the broadcast promotions agency launched earlier this year, has appointed Matt Cole as creative director. Cole was most recently a freelance promotions director working with BBC, ITV, Sky and Nickelodeon. He was previously creative manager at Turner Classic Movies and a senior producer at Paramount Comedy and is a ...
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Ricky's Animal instinct at Suite
CHARLOTTE STREET editing house Suite has cut Animals , the Ricky Gervais-led stand-up tour. The feature-length show follows the Golden Globe-winner's preparations and frustrations in the lead-up to the sell-out West End run of Animals , as well as showing ...
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Hotbed wins two BBC arts orders
Hotbed Media has been commissioned to make a new series of its successful BBC1 arts show Star Portraits with Rolf Harris. The programme has been commissioned for next spring by BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and will be executive produced by Johannah Dyer and series ...
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Tiger Aspect wins first radio orders
Tiger Aspect, the independent production company behind Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley , has picked up its first radio commissions.