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Libra to produce two BBC schools shows
Manchester-based Libra Television has won the two secondary school commissions put out to indies by the BBC schools and colleges department this year. Libra will make 2 x 60-minute religious education programmes for the Curriculum Bitesseries. Ordered by BBC schools and colleges editor Karen Johnson ...
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Siemens is chosen for bbc Technology
Siemens has been selected as the preferred single bidder for BBC Technology. The bid, which has not been disclosed, must now be approved by the BBC governors, the secretary of state for media Tessa Jowell and the EU Competition Commission. If it is passed Siemens will take a 10-year contract ...
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BBC considers worldwide privatisation
The BBC this week admitted that it would be looking at part or full privatisation of BBC Worldwide. The BBC panel which is reviewing its commercial operations includes two external figures - Lehman Brothers banker Anthony Fry and Tory peer Lord Inglewood. BBC chief operating officer John Smith is heading ...
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Tigress hires duo to bolster Production
Bristol-based factual indie Tigress Productions is looking to bolster its output with two senior appointments.
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Riverside role for Editworks' boss Boyers
Editworks managing director Jim Boyers has resigned and is taking control of Riverside TV Studios.
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Zeal music rolls Cd:Uk to swiss market
Blaze Television's ITV1 chart show CD:UK is to be remade for the Swiss market. The deal, handled by Zeal Music, will see the music show air on SF2, owned by public terrestrial network SFDRS, from September. Zeal will make the Swiss version, which will be retitled CD:Live. The format has ...
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Celador wins comedy order
Celador Productions has been given a rare comedy commission, with a new half-hour show for Channel 4.
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Living takes celebrity snaps
Living TV has commissioned new indie Thumbs Up to make a 20 x 30-minute reality show about photographers who snap celebrities for a living.
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chandos at TV corp
The Television Corporation, producer of Paradise Hoteland Robot Wars, has named Labour peer Tom Chandos as its new chairman, replacing Michael Grade, who left to become chairman of the BBC in May.
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Commissioner's Q&A : Gary Shoefield
GSB director of programming has a maximum of£10,000 an hour to spend so has little chance of realising his dream of poaching The Sopranos, but he can afford another Sold in 60 Seconds
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Company's trio of Gold Nymphs
Company Pictures, the indie behind Shameless, walked away with a hat trick of Gold Nymph awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
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Spain cooks up own Takeaway
Spain is to be the first country to show its own version of hit ITV show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
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Jump creates Sport Relief look
Jump has designed and produced graphics for the BBC's live charity event Sport Relief. Title sequences and graphics for the charity telethon were based upon the concept of a video wall. The 16 x 8 grid allowed Jump to avoid TV design conventions and borrow ...
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Italian prospect of straight dates
Indie Prospect Pictures has sold the format of reality show ...
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Thomson fifa deal
Thomson has been selected by Swiss-based HBS (Host Broadcast Services), host broadcaster of the 2006 Fifa World Cup, to provide HDTV OB vans for its coverage of
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Hoaxer made death threats to indie execs
Senior executives at indie Zig Zag Productions, including managing director Danny Fenton, were issued with death threats by Britain's most notorious prankster, a court heard this week.
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Dee takes lead in Simon Nye film for ITV
Jack Dee is to star in an ITV film penned by Men Behaving Badlycreator Simon Nye, writes Michael Rosser.
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New Design Outfit
Three former senior designers from Carlton this week set up a graphics design company, Bottletop. Dave Beeson, John Hunt and Anne Whitley decided to form the business to capitalise on the vacuum that would be left with the closure of the Nottingham studios. Bottletop is due to move into the ...