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BBC Birmingham marks 30 years since pub bombings
BBC Birmingham has commissioned Midlands independent BFM Productions to make a 30-minute documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.
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C4 goes X-rated for film history
Channel 4 is to broadcast some of the most controversial sex scenes on television with a new commission from ITN-owned production arm Visual Voodoo.
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S4C commissions kids series about sheep
S4C has commissioned a new long-running children's show featuring a family of sheep. Siwan Jobbins, S4C commissioning editor for children, has ordered 52 x 15-minute series The Baas from Cardiff-based indie Cynhyrchiadau Ceidiog Creations for broadcast in mid-2005. It will feature actors in costumes, created ...
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S4C's Jones to quit after decade in post
S4C chief executive Huw Jones has announced he will step down at the end of next year. Jones, who has been at the helm of the Welsh channel since 1994, said he will remain until December next year when a series of public service broadcasting reviews will have been concluded. ...
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Pheonix7 selected
Software provider Phoenix7 has been selected by Education Digital, managers of Teachers' TV, to supply its channel management software. Education Digital - comprising Brook Lapping, ITV plc and the Institute of Education - was chosen by the government last year to manage the channel. Zeus, provided by Phoenix7, provides channel ...
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Five to air Stargate Atlantis after Sky
Five has secured a second-window deal with Sky One for its recent MGM International Television Distribution acquisition Stargate Atlantis. The series, a spin-off from sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 , will launch on Sky One this month and will arrive ...
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Jamie's Kitchen transfers to Amsterdam
Jamie Oliver is to open the first overseas branch of his restaurant Fifteen in Amsterdam where recruits will be filmed for a new version of the hit Jamie's Kitchen format.
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Commissioner's Q&A: Andrew Mackenzie
Channel 4's editor, factual entertainment has a budget of up to£170,000 an hour and is hunting for series ideas for the 11pm slot
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Moore to make another it's my life
ITV has commissioned Manchester-based indie Moore Television to make a fourth series of its Terry Christian-fronted ethics series, It's My Life. The 8 x 45-minute run will again look at the moral dilemmas faced by young people and air next year. Geoff Moore is ...
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Ant & Dec form indie
ITV entertainment stars Ant and Dec have set up their own production company called Gallowgate Productions and are developing a new entertainment format. The newly formed operation, named after an area of Newcastle, is also looking at comedy drama and the pair are also keen on doing a sitcom.
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Apax move links Dyke with ITV bid
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has joined private equity firm Apax Partners, increasing speculation that he plans to head a bid for ITV.
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RDF asks if Jacko is wacko
RDF Media is to follow up its hit documentary Michael Jackson's Face with a look at the mental state of the dysfunctional superstar.
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Avalon makes global Sketch Show sales
Avalon International has made sales of Bafta-award winning comedy The Sketch Show. Danish broadcaster Danmarks Radio has picked up the show while Pure TV in Canada and France's DMLSTV Productions and TF1 will make local-language versions. Earlier this year, US network Fox commissioned a domestic ...
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BBC Breakfast move
BBC news weekend editor David Kermode is to take over the editorship of BBC Breakfast, covering for Richard Porter who has moved to helm BBC World for six months following the ill-health of Sian Kevill. Kermode has been weekend editor for BBC1 and BBC News ...
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BBC to tender out politics
The BBC is to further boost its 25% indie quota by tendering out its London regional politics show to an external supplier.
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BBC Reeve tribute
The BBC is to broadcast its latest documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as a tribute to the star, following his sudden death this week. Christopher Reeve: Keeping Hope in Motion was commissioned from indie TWI last year to chronicle his struggle to walk ...
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BBC reporters set to go mobile
BBC News is to equip its roving reporters with third generation (3G) video mobile phones to give them a new way of gathering breaking news stories.
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BBC Broadcast creates drama
BBC Broadcast has created the television trail for new drama, Conviction , one of three upcoming dramas commissioned for BBC3. The trail tracks one of the characters back from killer to drug dealer to reveal he started out as a police officer. Johnny Bongo editor ...
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BBC Birmingham wins at RTS Midlands
BBC Birmingham swept the board at the Royal Television Society Midlands awards on Saturday (9 October), picking up eight awards from the 11 major categories it was nominated in. Among the winners were BBC1's One Life: Size Doesn't Matter for best factual programme and BBC2's ...