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The Perfect Holiday (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'You wonder if TV executives just drank way too much over the Christmas holidays, with unfortunate consequences.'...
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Hunt for the Nazi Diamonds: The Great Adventure (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Last night's documentary remained rather vague on certain key questions - including who exactly Svoray is and whet...
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Pepper adds spice to Clark diary
Pepper has completed the grade on BBC4 adaptation The Alan Clark Diaries. Clark, hailed as a modern-day Samuel Pepys, wormed his way into the public's affection through his diaries and their withering observations of political backbiting and cabinet inertia. The six-part series was shot on Digibeta and graded by Pepper ...
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Uden goes into administration
Indie uden Associates has been forced into administration after 22 years of programme making owing to 'unsustainable debts'.
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Jowell: no plans to ban junk food ads
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has ruled out implementing a ban on junk food advertising to children. Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention this week, Jowell said she was looking to collaborate 'with the fast food industry in pursuit of a better way of working' rather than impose a ban. According ...
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A&E keen for a third visitation of Spooks
A&E Networks in the US has bought the forthcoming third series of Kudos's hit BBC1 drama Spooks. The 10 x 60-minute series - renamed MI-5 for the US - will air later in the year. Series one and two of the drama aired on ...
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Peep show to pop up again later in year
Objective Productions' Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show has been commissioned for a second series. The show, written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, will return later this year. Ordered by C4 commissioning editor Iain Morris it will be executive produced by Andrew O'Connor.
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Oneword cuts all staff jobs
The entire full-time staff of digital radio station Oneword - twice winner of the Sony digital station of the year - have been made redundant ahead of a major restructure.
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Granada's allsop to head Teve media
Former Granada executive Malcolm Allsop has been appointed creative director of newly formed production company TeVe Media Group. The group has been created by pulling together six media and music units, which includes Granada's Dutch production partner, TeVe Holland, and TeVe Company in Belgium, together with facility company TeVe Studio.
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Liquid assets to run to another series
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a further run of Liquid Assets. The new 6 x 60-minute series, which is expected to air in late spring, will be expanded to look at the finances of movie stars as well as pop singers. Among those slated to be examined are the ...
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Pop Idol poised for Asian launch
Indie 19TV has struck its first Asian deal for the Pop Idol format, with Singapore's Channel 5 signing up to produce a local version, writes Michael Rosser.
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Six battle for top post gong
Six London-based broadcast facilities will battle it out for the prestigious best post-production house gong at this year's Broadcast Awards. The Farm, Molinare, Editworks, Evolutions Television, Resolution and St Anne's Post are all shortlisted. The award recognises the company that has provided not only outstanding service but also shown the ...
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Red and BBC team up for promo
Red Post Production and BBC Broadcast have collaborated on a 40-second promo for UK History that highlights a new series of programmes covering the major events that formed modern Britain. Called A 1,000 Years of History, the promo features series presenter Michael Wood guiding viewers through a photo-real
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BBC Bristol sends spies into wild
A new BBC Bristol series, presented by Steve Leonard, makes use of the latest in spy technology to find out more about wild animals. The six-part series - Animal Camera - features satellite telemetry, low light cameras and acoustic imagers which hear sounds inaudible to humans. Camera technology includes thermal ...
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BBC digital curriculum open for pitches
Indies have officially been invited to pitch for commissions for the BBC's controversial£150m digital curriculum project. The BBC lodged a notice on Tuesday (13 January) with Ojec, the European website which lists business opportunities with public bodies. The BBC has pledged to commission out half the£90m content budget for the ...
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My New Best Friend goes to MTV US
My New Best Friend , Tiger Aspect's hit Channel 4 comedy format, has been sold to MTV US Networks. Tiger will co-produce a pilot of the programme with Katalyst, the production company owned by Aston Kutcher, star of US hidden camera show ...
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Shareholders give blessing to ITV merger
Carlton and Granada shareholders overwhelmingly approved the merger of ITV at separate extraordinary general meetings this week. The two companies now only need formal court approval later this month for the merger to come into being. Granada chairman and new ITV chief executive Charles Allen used the opportunity to announce ...
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Thames drama boost
Thames Television head of drama Paul Marquess has made two key drama appointments for The Bill and Murder Investigation Team. Claire Philips, most recently a producer on Carlton's Sweet Medicine , becomes series producer ...
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Talent TV tests kids' loyalties for CBBC
Indie Talent TV is making a CBBC factual entertainment series in which kids' friendships are put to the test. The 15 x 30-minute Best of Friends , commissioned by CBBC head of entertainment Anne Gilchrist, will feature teams of five friends aged between 10 and ...
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Foregone conclusions
We are promised a radical review of PSB, but there are signs that the status quo will largely survive the process.