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Sky's free market move
BSkyB's decision last week to launch a free satellite offer is largely about the refuseniks, who up to now have proved impervious to Sky TV's multichannel charms.
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UKTV finds£1.8m for factual slate
UKTV is pouring£1.8m into commissioning up to 60 hours of new factual programming for 2005.
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.
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O'Leary indie unleashes Parent Trap on BBC3
Dermot O'leary's indie Murfia is making a show for BBC3 in which young people are followed around by their parents at work, in the pub and on dates, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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Red 3 expansion
Bristol-based Red 3 is expanding its base of operations to house the incoming staff that it believes will be needed to deal with upcoming CGI commissions, such as SS Republic for National Geographic. Red 3 directors Simon Edgar and Peter Bailey have been working closely with their Manchester affiliate, Red ...
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Bomber Ace takes flight for C4
channel 4 has commissioned RDF Media to make a follow-up to Spitfire Ace with a series in which relatives of second world war veterans are put through their paces manning a Lancaster bomber, writes Glen Mutel.
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C4 commissions band aid documentary
Channel 4 editor, religion Aaquil Ahmed has ordered a 90-minute documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? - the UK's largest selling single ever, which raised over£100m for famine relief. The film, produced by indie Class Films, features interviews with key participants including ...
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C4 to unlock secrets of Einstein's brain
Two scientists will examine Albert Einstein's brain in a new Channel 4 documentary - one of several commissions from C4 head of science Simon Andreae.
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C4 picks up rights to virgin festival
Channel 4 has landed the rights to broadcast the V Festival for the next three years. The event, which is held in Chelmsford and Staffordshire simultaneously will be screened live on E4 on 21 and 22 August. In addition, C4 will screen two 90-minute highlight shows. In the run-up to ...
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45 jobs set to go at Teletext
Up to 45 jobs are to go at Teletext after the company decided to axe its non-core activities.
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Holmes signs to R5
GMTV frontman Eamonn Holmes has been signed up by BBC Radio 5 Live to host a new Saturday morning news and sports show. The Irish presenter, who began his career at Ulster Television where he worked across both news and sport, will launch the show on 28 August following the ...
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France's M6 buys up ITV crime dramas
GRANADA International has sold its ITV cop drama Murder in Suburbia to French channel M6, as part of raft of deals with the broadcaster, writes Paul Revoir.
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Bectu warns against weakening PSB
Broadcasting union Bectu has warned MPs that setting up an Arts Council of the Air to redistribute licence fee money to commercial broadcasters would weaken PSB. In evidence to the media select committee on BBC's Charter renewal, Bectu said the proposal 'would have the effect of seriously weakening a viable ...
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Kanjee appointed as Evolutions md
Simon Kanjee has ended 18 months of speculation by joining independent post house Evolutions as managing director.
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Discovery opts for Ascent's playout facility
Discovery Communications, owner of the Discovery Channel, has chosen Ascent Media Group as its global technology and playout partner.
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BBC ends exclusive Audley Harrison deal
The BBC has ended its exclusive£1m UK TV and radio rights deal with boxer Audley Harrison, saying it wants to focus more on emerging talent. Harrison's last fight for the BBC - his 17th bout for the corporation - will be this Saturday (19 June) against a Polish fighter, Tomasz ...
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My hero back in autumn for fifth run
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a fifth series of comedy My Hero from indie Big Bear Films. Production on the 10 x 30-minute run, which will again star Ardal O'Hanlon as a secret superhero, has just begun, with broadcast due in the autumn. It is directed by John Stroud, ...
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British tv triumphs at rockie Awards
British programme-makers dominated the Rockie Awards at the Banff Television Festival in Canada, winning nine out of a possible 20 awards. Winners included Tiger Aspect's Catherine Tate Show; Lion TV's The True Face of War; the BBC's This Little Life; BBC and Endor Productions' State of Play; BBC and Ziji ...
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Bailey and Gardam complete Charter panel
Sly Bailey, the high-profile chief executive of the Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror, is to sit on a government-sponsored panel looking into BBC Charter renewal.
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Everett and Fry to play Holmes for BBC and ITV
The BBC is to slug it out with ITV in a battle of the deerstalkers after revealing that it too has commissioned a Sherlock Holmes drama.