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skin expands team
Skin has selected producer Matthew White to join its core design team. White, previously of Red, MPC and Cinesite, brings TSI's design agency numbers to four. White has been brought in to strengthen the team and to grow Skin's project range. There are plans to expand further towards the end ...
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Tiger to show how Hitler was fooled
Tiger Aspect is to recreate how the British fooled Hitler into thinking the D-Day landings would come through Calais in an ITV1 drama documentary, one of three new commissions for the indie's factual department.
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Fremantle media set to push fresh ideas
FremantleMedia has hired Alice Whiteley as its acquisitions and development director for its worldwide licensing division. She will be responsible for acquiring third-party brands and 'invigorating classic properties', in particular children's shows, to drive new programme ideas. Whiteley had been business development director at Ealing Family Entertainment before joining Fremantle ...
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Globes on living TV
Living TV has picked up the rights to screen the Golden Globe film awards until 2007, after sealing an exclusive three-year deal. The Flextech-owned channel secured the deal for coverage of the LA-based film and TV awards ceremony, seen as a pointer to the Oscars, after a successful screening of ...
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OSF hires Hawkins
Indie OSF has appointed Caroline Hawkins as an executive producer. She has previously worked on Delia Smith, Summer Holiday and Wild and Dangerous for the BBC and has also worked on shows for Five, National Geographic and TLC.
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Plymouth indie sells series to sky travel
Plymouth-based indie Twofour Productions has sold two series to Sky Travel. The 6 x 30-minute Park Life goes behind the scenes at Alton Towers, while the 7 x 30-minute documentary Newquay follows teenagers through their summer in the surfing capital of the UK.
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Panorama IRA special
BBC1's flagship current affairs strand Panorama is to screen an edition of BBC Northern Ireland's current affairs strand Spotlight in one of its slots for the first time. The Superdollar special, which originally aired in Northern Ireland in March, traces counterfeit $100 bills from North Korea to an Official IRA ...
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Strongroom kits out suite
Audio post facility Strongroom has finished the construction of a new HD protools 5.1 studio and is looking to branch out into video editing.
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VTR looks at sales
Nicholas Wortman has become head of sales for VTR. Previously new business executive for The Hive, Wortman was chosen to head up the sales operations at VTR following the merger of the two companies last month.
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Molinare recruits
Molinare has appointed two facility managers to support facility director Kate George. Senior post production manager Richard Knights has been internally promoted to take one of the positions. Richard Hart, previously head of post production at Oasis, takes up the other position on Monday. One of their first tasks will ...
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NewsMurdoch moves to take on Freeview
BSkyb chief executive James Murdoch this week unveiled plans for a 200-channel free-to-air digital satellite package in a dramatic departure from Sky's pay-TV business model.
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NewsITV drops kids channel plan
ITV has scrapped launching a digital kids channel and now plans to open up its schedule to Nickelodeon or Disney in return for a CITV branded slot on their channels.
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NewsFive gets Zara exclusive
Royal rebel Zara Phillips has given her first televised interview to Five, revealing all to newsreader Kirsty Young.
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NewsTrisha indie may lead to exit from ITV
TV's chat show stalwart Trisha Goddard could leave the network after deciding to launch her own indie.
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NewsInquiry to clear BBC news
an internal BBC review is to declare that its editorial news systems are in need of no major overhaul, despite criticism from Lord Hutton that they were 'defective'.
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New DG to appear before MPs
Incoming BBC director general Mark Thompson will make his first parliamentary defence of the corporation just three weeks after taking up the post when he presents the corporation's annual report to the media select committee.
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ITV axes Planet Wild and The Lab
ITV has axed two of its factual production arms - closing former Carlton operation Planet Wild and London-based regional producer The Lab, writes Paul Revoir.
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Humphreys latest departure at Five
Liam Humphreys has quit as Five's commissioning editor for factual entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 set to publish terms
channel 4 is expected, within the next two weeks, to become the first broadcaster to unveil its new terms of trade, as its lengthy negotiations with producer's alliance Pact near to a close, writes Glen Mutel.
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Granada links up with Network 10
Granada has teamed up with Australian producer Screentime to make an ambitious£6.5m co-production drama about a teenage woman from England who was arrested and sent on the first convict ship to Australia in the late 1780s.