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£10k bristol grant
Bristol Independents Group (BIG), the recently formed alliance of production companies, has been handed a£10,000 grant by South West Screen for a development producer to work across the five companies. Quickfire Media, Testimony Films, Icon Films, Available Light and Tigress Productions plan to sell programme rights collectively - except for ...
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£60m Teachers TV gets government green light
Teachers TV, the planned£60m TV service for teaching professionals, has been signed off by the government and will launch in the first quarter of next year.
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C4 gives female orgasms the Bodyshock series treatment
Channel 4 is to chart the progress of three British women who travel to the US to test a new treatment for women who can't reach orgasm.
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C4 plans six more pieces for Animate
Channel 4 and the Arts Council have unveiled the latest commissions for its animation series Animate!. The season includes Who Am I and What I Want, a collaboration between Chris Shepherd and artist David Shrigley. Other pieces include As the Crow Flies by Carolina Melis and Susanne Flender; Rabbit by ...
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C4I sells documentaries to France 5
Channel 4 International has secured a raft of documentary sales to France 5. These include High Performance, a two-hour look at what happens when non-professional athletes take performance-enhancing drugs. The French broadcaster has also snapped up Paladin Pictures' 2 x 50-minute ...
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Toon leaves ITV for C4 public affairs job
ITV controller of public affairs Nick Toon has left the broadcaster to join Channel 4. Toon will fill the newly created post of head of public affairs, reporting to head of corporate relations John Newbigin. The move followed the departure of Newbigin's deputy Martin Stott to Five last month. The ...
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422 South titles BBC fame show
422 South has created the title sequence for BBC1 reality series When Will I be Famous?The 6 x 30-minute documentary series follows students as they tread the boards at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Designer Mike Alderson gave the titles a ...
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Challenge captures weird acts on film
Challenge has commissioned Indie Blue to make a 15 x 30-minute clip show series called Twisted TV. The show, which airs from 9 August, focuses on the weirdest moments caught on camera, such as water-skiing monkeys in Japan and a man with a six-and-a-half-foot moustache. ...
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AHC and X-Ray merge to meet HD demand
Ahc Post and X-Ray FX have merged to create a£1m-a-year high-definition boutique in Soho.
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London TV goes on air
London TV, the new London listings channel produced by Enteraction TV for Visit London, is launching next week with a programming budget of£2m for the first year. All the programmes will be produced in-house by Enteraction TV. Programming strands include what's on broadcasts every hour and ...
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Fake lottery win story airs on ITV
ITV1 has commissioned Hewland International to make a one-off drama documentary about Howard Walmsley, the painter and decorator jailed in 2001 after posing as a£9m National Lottery winner to save his marriage.
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Jowell moots analogue radio switch-off
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has indicated for the first time that the government may consider a switch-off date for analogue radio. In her foreword to a report from the Digital Radio Development Bureau, published this week, Jowell said: 'Later this year, I will be reviewing the take-up of digital radio ...
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Murdoch in RTS conference appearance
James Murdoch is to address the broadcasting industry for the first time since becoming chief executive of BSkyB. Murdoch, who took over at Sky last November, will speak at the Royal Television Society international conference, Global End Game: the UK Meets the Real World, on 29 September. He will be ...
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UK arm for LA firm
Pacific Television Center, a Los Angeles-based independent transmission and production facility, is opening a digital insert studio and master control room in London. Pacific Television Center will use the facility to produce and transmit broadcast content for TV networks, cable channels, film studios and publicity companies. New connectivity at the ...
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wildscreen awards
British film-makers who use special techniques to enhance their wildlife programmes are prominent in the shortlist for this year's Wildscreen Natural History awards. The BBC Natural History Unit picked up 14 nominations as either commissioner or producer, while BBC Specialist Factual received two nods for its ...
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Horne back to Metro
Tony Horne, breakfast DJ on Capital-owned 105.4 Century FM in the north-west, has been poached by Broadcast publisher Emap to rejoin Metro Radio in the north-east. Horne defected to Capital four years ago after months of conflict with management. But the DJ has been persuaded ...
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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 ...