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Phipps switches to Sky News from ITV
ITV Evening News programme editor Nick Phipps has been poached by Sky News to executive produce its flagship Live at 5 strand. Phipps will replace outgoing Live at 5 editor Mark Calvert, who has been appointed editor of Five News, which Sky will produce from ...
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Morris lobbied
Minister for the arts Estelle Morris was last week urged to address training issues in the£1.4bn post-production industry to ensure that the UK maintains its position as a world leader. Colin Brown, head of Cinesite, said that Morris was fascinated by the way that training works in the industry during ...
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Wooding to Mentorn
Mentorn has poached the executive producer of the BBC's Million Pound Property Experiment , Paul Wooding, to join its Oxford team. Wooding, whose credits also include SAS Survival Secrets and Right Car Wrong Car , ...
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new tv sms system
The new sendto:Air picture messaging system from broadcast computer system specialist Cat and Mouse will be unveiled this Saturday on BBC1's new primetime show Johnny & Denise - Passport to Paradise. The system downloads picture and text messages from mobile phone networks and allows producers to quickly view and approve ...
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Positive promises
The BBC this week launched its Charter review 'manifesto', Building Public Value , with the sort of presentation and promises one might expect from a political party seeking re-election after a particularly difficult term in office. There was something distinctly New Labour about the way ...
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NewsThe BBC states its case
The BBC this week unveiled its manifesto for securing a new Royal Charter, pledging to be more accountable, more transparent and to introduce a new public service test for every BBC service.
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NewsE4 and Endemol deal creates 300 jobs
More than 300 jobs are to be created in Bristol after Big Brother producer Endemol signed a deal with E4 to produce 300 hours of new shows - the digital channel's largest ever investment in original programming.
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NewsHat Trick and Shed ditch plans to wed
The proposed£20m takeover of Footballers' Wives producer Shed by Hat Trick, maker of Have I Got News for You , has collapsed.
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BBC orders Hiroshima A-bomb docu-drama
BBC1 has ordered docu-dramas that will recreate the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the life of Genghis Khan.
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Five will unwrap Mummy
The bandaged face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest will be revealed in a new documentary for Five.
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Sky in talks over ITV3
BSkyB is in discussions with ITV about making the recently merged company's forthcoming ITV3 channel a pay offering in a bid to keep it off rival platform Freeview.
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C4 News deal ends after six months
Channel 4 News and indie Real Life Media have ended their£400,000 two-year deal for the broadcaster's northern news bureau just six months into the agreement.
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C4 casts net beyond TV in search for new chief
Speculation continues about who will take the top job at Channel 4, with suggestions that head-hunters Spencer Stuart is looking hard at candidates working outside television production and broadcasting.
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ITV puts footie cash into drama
ITV is to pump an extra£5m into drama and entertainment programming this autumn using money saved by losing the Premier League football highlights to the BBC.
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Grade's Charter renewal speech
'Ladies and gentlemen we live in a somewhat cynical world. Someone once said that every ten years, come Charter Renewal, the BBC gets the old time religion. Can't think who it
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NewsSky One and Paramount in co-pro deal
Sky One has entered into a co-production deal with Paramount for new sci-fi series The 4400.
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NewsSky and BBC in talks over 'Freesat'
BSkyB has said it is actively talking to the BBC about the corporation becoming a joint venture partner in its new free-to-air satellite offering.
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NewsBBC unveils Charter renewal plans
The BBC yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled its manifesto for securing a new Royal Charter, pledging to be more accountable, more transparent and to introduce a new public service test for every BBC service.
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NewsBBC to air Scottish World Cup qualifiers
Scotland's crucial away World Cup qualifying games against Norway, Slovenia, Belarus and Moldova have been signed up by BBC Scotland.
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NewsRDF expands Wife Swap format in USA
RDF Media is expanding its Wife Swap franchise on US network ABC before the original format is even aired in a bid to combat a similar show being launched by rival broadcaster Fox.