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Format Focus: The Empire
Five is on the lookout for new reality series, and a trip back in time to a medieval Polish castle could fit the bill.
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Frontier finalises So Solid film
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Maroon Productions' Sticks and Stones for C4. The one-hour documentary follows So Solid Crew's Asher D as he asks why some racially offensive language is part of modern life. The show was produced and directed by Paul Blake, edited ...
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Five picks true north for Macintyre job
True North Productions has been commissioned by Five to make a further three one-hour current affairs programmes with Donal MacIntyre, following on from the success of MacIntyre's Big Sting. The new shows, commissioned by senior programme controller Chris Shaw, are being kept under wraps ...
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Tanner to Leave Jazz FM in the spring
Jazz FM managing director Carter Tanner has resigned and will leave the station in March. Tanner, who joined the Guardian Media Group-owned London station in March 2002 from Clear Channel, is believed to be hunting for a more sales-oriented role in the radio sector. Meanwhile, Ofcom is to allow a ...
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Peaches Geldof follows in Paula's steps
Bob Geldof's 15-year-old daughter, Peaches, is to follow in the footsteps of her late mother, Paula Yates, by taking to the small screen. She is fronting a 60-minute documentary for Sky One, Peaches Geldof - Inside the Mind of a Teenager , which will look ...
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Zenith wins Fourth garden rivals series
UKTV Style has ordered a fourth series of Garden Rivals from Zenith Productions. The 15 x 30-minute episodes, set to air in March, will be produced by Paul Coleman. UKTV Style commissioning executive Chantal Rutherford Browne has also commissioned 10 episodes of ...
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Sky One gets go-ahead for Hex series two
Sky One has given the green light to a second 13-part series of Shine teen drama Hex for a spring 2005 delivery. The deal comes as the first run of the sci-fi teen drama, co-produced by Sony Pictures, draws to an end on Sunday (21 ...
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Talent picked for Japan job
Indie Talent Television has secured a raft of new international commissions, including a second instalment of Test the Nation in Japan.
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Malik to Red Post
Kabir Malik has joined Red Post Production from Ascent Media. Malik has been appointed business development manager, having had similar roles at a number of post companies.
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No Peroxide opens
Film and TV composers agency No Peroxide has opened offices on Newman Street. The current roster includes Rob Lord and Mark Tschanz, previously of EMI and Warner Brothers. Television credits include The Big Breakfast ad campaign for Rainey Kelly and the Sky One documentary ...
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NewsManchester move for BBC Children's
The BBC will confirm next month that its children's department is to be relocated to Manchester as part of the corporation's move out of London.
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NewsHow the C4/Five deal died
It promised to be a tense lunch as Channel 4 and Five executives sat down in a private dining room at One Aldwych Hotel in London last Friday afternoon.
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NewsBritish TV chiefs rate Sopranos top show
Britain's leading commissioners and channel controllers have voted a US TV import as the best thing on the box.
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NewsReynolds quits as Corrie boss
Coronation Street executive producer Carolyn Reynolds has quit ITV after 25 years to set up her own indie.
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ITV orders SMG TV show for Trisha slot
Granada has lost its grip on ITV's morning schedule after the broadcaster commissioned SMG TV Productions to make a courtroom show to run in the Trisha slot.
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Hamann quits Shine to start own firm
Paul Hamann, creative director of factual at Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, is to leave the company after four years to set up on his own.
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CGI costs delay ITV Marchioness film
A signature ITV film about the Marchioness disaster - feted in Edinburgh by chief executive Charles Allen - is under threat because producers are short of more than£300,000.
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BBC shelves plan for public to pick favourite EastEnder
A BBC entertainment show inviting the public to pick their favourite EastEnders character has been shelved because of a string of negative tabloid headlines about the show's stars.
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Hicks exits Chrysalis
Jim Hicks has quit as group programming director of Chrysalis Radio in the week the group warned of a slowdown in the radio advertising market.
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BBC sets up Gina Ford school
The BBC has commissioned an ambitious reality show in which stressed mums and dads will be sent to a parenting academy to learn tips from baby expert Gina Ford.