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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.
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BBC unveils new newsroom
This is the first view of what the BBC's new state-of-the-art digital newsroom will look like at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC's huge newsgathering operation, which is the largest in the world, is set to move from its current base at Television Centre in west London to Broadcasting House ...
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BBC signs deal to show prime in italy
BBC Worldwide has completed a deal to broadcast its international entertainment channel BBC Prime on Italy's Sky Italia platform for the first time. The deal, which takes effect from 1 August, will allow an extra 2.6 million households access to the channel, which airs BBC programming across Europe, the Middle ...
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NUJ calls for more resources for BBC
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for more resources to be pumped into BBC news. The demand came as the union presented the findings of its own review into the BBC's editorial guidelines to BBC director of news Richard Sambrook, which highlighted issues in staff training, the use ...
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Suite beams
Beam.tv is launching a service, called Beamsuite, that it said will facilitate global advertising campaigns by speeding up the production of international versions for local broadcast market, including different formats, such as PAL, NTSC, HDTV, or languages. Generic masters and broadcast elements, including overlength shots, audio tracks, graphics, fonts and ...
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Broadcasters given warning over repeats
terrestrial broadcasters have been warned that if they use too many repeats of UK-produced programmes they may not be able to include them in their quotas in future.
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Paramount buys Charlie Sheen comedy
Paramount Comedy has signed its first deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution, picking up hit show Two and a Half Men. Paramount Comedy, owned by Viacom, has acquired the exclusive UK cable and satellite rights to the 23 x 30-minute first series of the show, which is currently showing ...
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Popworld carved up
Channel 4 and UBC Media are poised to each take a 25% stake in Simon Fuller's Popworld company, as a prelude to launching Popworld-branded products, including a radio station, by the end of the year. C4 already owns 7% of the company, which owns both the Popworld brand and the ...
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CBBC recommissions little red tractor
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has ordered a third series of pre-school animation Little Red Tractor. The 26 x 10-minute run, a co-production between Entertainment Rights and The Little Entertainment Company, follows the adventures of a tractor and its owner, Stan. It is due to air on CBeebies and BBC2 at ...
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Hobbs to Celador
Celador Productions has appointed Alexandra Hobbs to the position of director of business and legal affairs and Heather Hampson to the role of head of production. Hobbs will be responsible for all Celador Productions' negotiations with broadcasters and talent.
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Ofcom censures Fox News piece
Controversial US channel Fox News, which was criticised for its pro-American reporting during the Iraq war, has been reprimanded by Ofcom for attacking the BBC.
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class films spotlights tour de france
Indie Class Films is to make a series of short films for Channel 4 about the famous French cycle race, the Tour de France. The five-minute documentaries will air directly after Channel 4 News in late July, and will be timed to coincide with the climax of this year's Tour ...
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Clear gets Moore
Derek Moore has joined Soho effects house Clear as senior Inferno artist. Moore replaces Jonny Hicks, who is leaving Clear to join LA-based Digital Domain. Moore, previously of Rushes, has been brought in to work across all genres having worked on projects spanning commercials, promos and films. Ad campaigns include ...
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Sky One picks up Kenny vs Spenny comedy
Sky One has signed a deal with Distraction Formats for 10 episodes of the Canadian comedy format Kenny vs Spenny. Indie Monkey will produce the series after securing exclusive UK rights. James Baker, head of Sky One, said the show, in which two 'friends' test each other's boundaries of tolerance ...
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Parliament to decide on community radio
The likelihood of community radio stations becoming established in the UK moved a step forward this week when the government brought a Community Radio Order before Parliament. After a period of public consultation the order will pass through both Houses of Parliament and if successful will allow Ofcom to advertise ...
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Gardner's condition ?improving'
The condition of BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, gunned down in Saudi Arabia while filming the house of an al-Qaeda militant, is slowly improving, the BBC has said. A spokesman said Gardner had not been in a coma but was heavily sedated. Gardner's cameraman Simon Cumbers died in the attack. ...
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Digital radio on up
The£45m market for digital radios is set to double by the end of the year, according to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB). The DRDB said this week that nearly 1 million digital radios will be in use in the UK by 2005 - the figure currently stands at 547,000. ...