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Heavy duty order for the gamma project
The Discovery Channel has commissioned new indie The Gamma Project to make a series about machinery, fronted by Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie. The 10 x 30-minute Heavy Duty, which is due to air in November, is the follow-up to Massive Engines. The series was commissioned by Discovery Channel UK director ...
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Ulster TV and ITV end row over sales
Ulster Television (UTV) has settled its dispute with ITV plc over claims that the merged company is selling on hit shows to ITV2 too cheaply. The Northern Irish broadcaster, which pays towards shows on ITV1 but has no stake in ITV2, had complained that the digital channel was not paying ...
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Red Vision puts the epic into TV
Red vision has brought Lord of the Rings-style battles to the small screen with the BBC's upcoming Battlefield Britain and intends to license the groundbreaking software that made it possible across the industry.
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Fremantle to invest in new Pioneer shows
INDIE Pioneer Productions is to receive fresh investment from Fremantle International Distribution (FID) for two new US commissions.
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Machine room hires
The Machine Room has expanded its DVD operations, which now account for over 25% of its annual turnover, with the addition of five staff. Vicki Angus, former new media producer at Stream, joins alongside Kat Evans, who brings music and feature experience from Abbey Road and Technicolor. Paul Mills has ...
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Phipps switches to Sky News from ITV
ITV Evening News programme editor Nick Phipps has been poached by Sky News to executive produce its flagship Live at 5 strand. Phipps will replace outgoing Live at 5 editor Mark Calvert, who has been appointed editor of Five News, which Sky will produce from ...
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Morris lobbied
Minister for the arts Estelle Morris was last week urged to address training issues in the£1.4bn post-production industry to ensure that the UK maintains its position as a world leader. Colin Brown, head of Cinesite, said that Morris was fascinated by the way that training works in the industry during ...
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Wooding to Mentorn
Mentorn has poached the executive producer of the BBC's Million Pound Property Experiment , Paul Wooding, to join its Oxford team. Wooding, whose credits also include SAS Survival Secrets and Right Car Wrong Car , ...
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new tv sms system
The new sendto:Air picture messaging system from broadcast computer system specialist Cat and Mouse will be unveiled this Saturday on BBC1's new primetime show Johnny & Denise - Passport to Paradise. The system downloads picture and text messages from mobile phone networks and allows producers to quickly view and approve ...
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Positive promises
The BBC this week launched its Charter review 'manifesto', Building Public Value , with the sort of presentation and promises one might expect from a political party seeking re-election after a particularly difficult term in office. There was something distinctly New Labour about the way ...
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NewsThe BBC states its case
The BBC this week unveiled its manifesto for securing a new Royal Charter, pledging to be more accountable, more transparent and to introduce a new public service test for every BBC service.
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NewsE4 and Endemol deal creates 300 jobs
More than 300 jobs are to be created in Bristol after Big Brother producer Endemol signed a deal with E4 to produce 300 hours of new shows - the digital channel's largest ever investment in original programming.
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NewsHat Trick and Shed ditch plans to wed
The proposed£20m takeover of Footballers' Wives producer Shed by Hat Trick, maker of Have I Got News for You , has collapsed.
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BBC orders Hiroshima A-bomb docu-drama
BBC1 has ordered docu-dramas that will recreate the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the life of Genghis Khan.
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Five will unwrap Mummy
The bandaged face of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest will be revealed in a new documentary for Five.
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Sky in talks over ITV3
BSkyB is in discussions with ITV about making the recently merged company's forthcoming ITV3 channel a pay offering in a bid to keep it off rival platform Freeview.
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C4 News deal ends after six months
Channel 4 News and indie Real Life Media have ended their£400,000 two-year deal for the broadcaster's northern news bureau just six months into the agreement.
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C4 casts net beyond TV in search for new chief
Speculation continues about who will take the top job at Channel 4, with suggestions that head-hunters Spencer Stuart is looking hard at candidates working outside television production and broadcasting.
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ITV puts footie cash into drama
ITV is to pump an extra£5m into drama and entertainment programming this autumn using money saved by losing the Premier League football highlights to the BBC.
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Grade's Charter renewal speech
'Ladies and gentlemen we live in a somewhat cynical world. Someone once said that every ten years, come Charter Renewal, the BBC gets the old time religion. Can't think who it