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Pilger to look at British colony scandal
Award-winning journalist John Pilger's next ITV project will be an investigation into how thousands of people were forcibly moved from a British colony in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s to make way for an American airbase. Stealing a Nation will look at the secretive ...
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Shake-up at BSkyB music
BSkyB has handed the running of its three music channels to a rival company in a move that leaves 13 staff facing redundancy.
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Entertainment Rights buys out Tell-Tale
Another indie was swallowed up this week when Postman Pat -owner Entertainment Rights (ER) bought Tweenies creator Tell-Tale Productions for£3.1m.
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Racing UK on cable
Horse-racing channel Racing UK has increased its reach to a further 1 million homes after signing a deal with cable operator Telewest Broadband. Racing UK is already available in BSkyB's 7.4 million homes.
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Hunniford returns with celeb homes series
Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.
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Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky
Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...
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CNBC's media talk
CNBC Europe is to launch a studio-based panel discussion show on the media industry. The 6 x 30-minute Media Talk will air from 24 September at 6pm on Friday evenings and will be repeated at 7pm on Sundays.
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Profits rise for TV Corp
The Television Corporation, producer of Robot Wars and the Hamburg Cell , has reported a return to profits for the first six months of the year after admitting to three 'difficult' years of losses.
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Cosgrove Hall develops teens toon
Cosgrove Hall Films is to develop a new animated show around a group of streetwise friends with Manchester-based indie Streetplay Design. The Slums, which will target 15 to 24-year-olds, is part of Cosgrove Hall's strategy to expand out of producing shows for just the pre-school market. Writers working on the ...
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The digital deadline
Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?
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Granada International in wildlife deal
Granada International has signed its first deal with wildlife specialist Tigress Productions, in which the distributor will invest in two new documentaries. It has acquired rights outside the UK, US and Germany for 50-minute one-off The Dolphin Murders , which is being co-produced by Five, ...
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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 ...