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Rushes Europe push
Rushes has promoted Vittorio Giannini to senior producer/new business executive to drive sales of Rushes services and creative staff to the continent. His remit includes re-establishing links with new and existing clients in France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia. Giannini will answer to Carl Grinter, director of production and business development.
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Neville in search for European formats
Australia's Ten Network has appointed former Granada TV executive Stephanie Neville to find programmes and formats across Europe, working with broadcasters, distributors and indies to identify acquisition opportunities.
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Sky One launches transvestite reality gameshow
Sky One is to follow its reality show There's Something About Miriam with a gameshow in which men compete against each other to be the most convincing women.
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Gearbox guarantee
GearBox Sound and Vision is going to guarantee a within-the-hour delivery service to Soho-based companies, via a new service called Gearbox Express. Managing director Richard Eastwood felt that the needs of the Soho community demanded that they 'get as close as possible to where our clients are based'. Eastwood said ...
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Granada wild to revisit predator series
Bristol-based Granada Wild has been commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to make four more instalments for the Built for the Kill series. Subjects to be covered in the 4 x 60-minute series are cats, snakes, sharks and raptors. Andrew Buchanan will executive produce and ...
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Tiger grows production
Tiger Aspect has bolstered its comedy and entertainment department with two new appointments, as well as scoring a commission from MTV.
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RDFI sells holiday show overseas
RDF International (RDFI) has sold its ITV1 format Holiday Showdown to Italian producer Magnolia, one of several new deals in Europe and Asia.
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Industry tackles lapse in training
An initiative to tackle the growing lack of skills training across the audio-visual industries was launched by a group of broadcasting organisations this week.
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ITV snares Ozzy
Rock family the Osbournes, who starred in the eponymous MTV and Channel 4 hit reality series, have been signed up by ITV to appear in the next outing of its An Audience with? strand as part of a brace of new Saturday night entertainment shows.
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TSI posts new Test the Nation
TSI Post has built the graphics for Talent TV's upcoming Test the Nation. The questions and answers package was created by Mark McKenna on Smoke HD. The Mac systems that were previously used had struggled to keep up with the workflow. 'Working on HD ...
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NBC orders US office
NBC has ordered six episodes of a US version of Ricky Gervais' award-winning sitcom The Office , despite the pilot being panned by critics. The sitcom will be renamed The American Workplace to distinguish it from the original UK version, ...
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Telegdy promoted
BBC Worldwide has promoted Paul Telegdy to vice-president of programming and co-productions in Los Angeles following Rebecca Segal's move to BSkyB. Telegdy will take up his post on 1 June and be responsible for programme acquisition, co-production and programme sales.
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NewsDigital switchover moves step closer
The government is to take its first tentative step towards analogue switch-off with a trial scheme in Wales to give away free set-top boxes to households.
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NewsBBC4 on hunt for new boss
BBC director of television Jana Bennett said she intends to move fast to appoint a new controller for BBC4 following last week's confirmation that Roly Keating will succeed Jane Root at BBC2.
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NewsGrade keeps 14,000 shares in TV studio
New BBC chairman Michael Grade has retained over 14,000 shares in a second company that owns studios used by the BBC.
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NewsC4 wins bidding war for Richard & Judy
Channel 4 has re-signed daytime favourites Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for another three years, despite renewed interest from their old bosses at ITV.
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Animals explore sex for C4
Channel 4 is to air an ambitious three-part musical that aims to tell the story of the evolution
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ITV off-peak unit to challenge BBC
ITV is to overhaul the way it commissions its daytime programming by creating a dedicated off-peak unit to oversee non-prime-time commissioning, in a bid to claw back the ratings gap with the BBC.
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MoD to draft new war rules
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to consult the major news broadcasters on creating specific rules for the protection of journalists in conflicts following intense lobbying over the deaths of 38 news staff in Iraq.
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Far-right tries to 'hijack' C4 social documentary
Channel 4's multicultural remit seems to have backfired this week after the British National Party 'hijacked' a documentary, which includes a section in which Asian men groom young white girls for sexual abuse.