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Connie the cow picked up by Disney
Animation house TV-Loonland has sold the German TV rights for pre-school series Connie the Cow to the Disney Channel. The show, which follows the adventures of a curious cow and her friends, attracts a share of nearly 25% on ITV. Produced by Neptuno Films, it ...
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TWI radio wins second contract with FA
TWI Radio has been reappointed by the FA Premier League to represent its international radio rights. The new contract runs until the 2006/7 season. In addition, TWI Radio has signed a new deal with digital satellite radio company Sirius to take Premiership football coverage. Sirius has 120 channels across North ...
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Ford takes control of drama at Five
Five head of acquisitions Jeff Ford has been handed an enhanced role overseeing drama. He will continue with his usual duties, but will now take additional responsibility for Family Affairs and commission about 10 hours of new drama a year. He will be assisted by ...
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Cut & Run Goes to NY
London and Los Angeles-based editing company Cut and Run is to open an office in New York's SoHo. The office will be led by Chuck Willis, formerly of Crew Cuts. It will offer creative services including graphics, visual effects and compositing. 'We are opening Cut and Run NY because we ...
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Distraction hires format director
Distraction Formats has appointed its first format director, Alice de Maré, who has worked for Distraction in both London and Paris for the past three years. Distraction recently made format sales of business reality show The Apprentice and BBC's Saturday night show ...
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Five focuses on weird pets and owners
Landmark Films has been commissioned by Five controller of science Justine Kershaw to produce a 60-minute film on weird pets and their owners in the US. Strange Pets USA will feature a man with three tigers, another with two alligators and a woman searching for ...
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Spirit FM taken over
The Local Radio Company has taken full control of Spirit FM after buying South West Sussex Radio's 53% share for£1.7m. The station has an audience of 33,000 in the region and made a£137,000 profit in the year to 30 September on sales of£925,000.
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TCM free for month
Turner Classic Movies will be free to air on both NTL and Telewest for the month of December. The deal will give the Time Warner-owned movie channel exposure to an additional 2.5 million UK homes. The Biography Channel and UKTV Gold have already announced that they plan to air for ...
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Love gets Sky One order
Former Maverick TV managing director Richard Mckerrow is close to bagging his first commission for his newly formed indie, Love Productions.
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Public service publisher is a 'ghetto'
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has warned that Ofcom's proposed£300m publicservice publisher could become a 'ghetto' that fails to attract enough viewers to justify its existence. Speaking at a conference on the future of broadcasting organised by the Voice of the Listener and Viewer this week, Johnson warned that 'preserving ...
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Lime Takes goacher
M2-backed CGI company Lime has poached another member from The Hive. Lightwave operator Julie Goacher is the fifth person to make the move from the VTR subsidiary. Goacher starts at the end of December after one month's gardening leave. The other members to join Lime from The Hive were Nathan ...
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Pockett wins gold
Branding agency English & Pockett won gold at this year's Promax Asia in Singapore for its logo design and on-screen identity package for a channel in Thailand. English & Pockett created an 'Expect the Unexpected' theme with images that were 'at odds with conventional dimensions'.
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Square Zero sets up The Heist
Square Zero has produced animated titles for The Heist for Five and Windfall Films. The programme follows five ex-cons as they attempt to plan and execute three perfect crimes. The first challenge is to steal a painting while it is being exhibited. Animator Olly Tyler ...
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ITV hires Salmon
ITV has appointed Clare Salmon from motorists' organisation the AA to be its new marketing director. She joins ITV in January, reporting to ITV Broadcasting chief executive Mick Desmond and replacing Jim Hytner who left to join Barclays Bank.
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Portman hires Zeiger
Portman Film and Television has appointed Neil Zeiger, the producer of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries for ITV, as executive producer. He will take the role with immediate effect and be charged with getting more writers and producers to use the distributor. He is the first ...
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Top of the Pops loses its rhythm
TV's longest running music show, Top of the Pops , has been moved from BBC1 to BBC2 after ratings dropped to just 3 million (15%).
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Paramount's Lynn takes Nickelodeon job
Nickelodeon has drafted in David Lynn from its sister network Paramount Comedy UK to take over as its managing director.
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Rapture TV return
Digital music channel Rapture TV is set to return to the screen yet again this month after striking an agreement with educational free-to-air service the Musicians Channel. Rapture TV, which went off air in July, will air dance music videos in the midnight to 12pm window on the Musicians Channel's ...
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Trafford sets up Scarlet TV
Paula Trafford, the former managing director of Carlton-owned producer Planet Wild, has teamed up with the owner of Fountain Television to launch an indie.
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NewsITV faces£70m hit as viewing slumps
Audiences for ITV's flagship reality show I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here! have fallen by around 2 million an episode compared with the last series in January.