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C4 pulls out of Attheraces
Horse-racing on television is facing a major shake-up after Channel 4 pulled out of the racing rights consortium Attheraces, writes Glen Mutel.
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S4C reorganises
S4C has restructured its commissioning department. Factual output will be separated into three areas: co-productions, headed by Cenwyn Edwards; factual entertainment, headed by Nici Beech; and a new yet to be filled post for general factual. Commissioning editor, light entertainment Huw Chiswell is leaving and will not be replaced. Meirion ...
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TSI to post C4's The Art Show
London facility TSI has been awarded a project to post-produce 18 episodes of the next series of The Art Show for World of Wonder.
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BBC and C4 scrap over the apprentice
The BBC and Channel 4 are in a bidding war to screen a local version of hit US reality show The Apprentice. The show, in which 16 candidates compete to win a job and six-figure salary with a high-profile businessman, will be made by ...
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R5 goes into business
BBC Radio Five Live's first ever programme dedicated to city news is to be titled Weekend Business. The new show will air from 19.00 to 20.00 every Sunday and will examine complex money issues, stories from the workplace and reports from the business world. ...
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Noddy's market leaps by 95 million
Noddy owner Chorion has secured a deal with a Chinese academic publisher, which will take the Enid Blyton character into the world's most populous nation. Chorion has awarded the Beijing-based Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) the mainland Chinese rights for the new CGI animated series Make Way for ...
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Tigress restructures after securing orders
Tigress Productions has restructured its senior management team after securing over 40 hours of commissions, writes Glen Mutel.
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Alastair Campbell to front five show
Indie Liberty Bell has been commissioned by Five senior programme controller Chris Shaw to make a six-part series in which former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell interviews people from the world of politics, business and sport. The Newcastle-based indie has also secured a one-off documentary order from Shaw ...
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Another Hustle
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a second series of con-artist drama Hustle before the first run has finished. The Kudos-produced series received mixed reviews when it debuted last month and picked up an average of 6.2 million viewers for its first three episodes. The ...
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Arena refits OB unit
Surrey-based Arena Television has installed a Calrec Zeta 100 digital audio console in one of its OB vans. The purchase is part of a complete refit of Arena's outside broadcast unit 5 by broadcast audio specialist Andy Unsworth. The Zeta 100 desk, configured as 40 mono and 16 stereo channels, ...
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Austria's orf picks up three uk docs
Channel 4 International has sold three one-off documentaries to Austria's ORF. The broadcaster has picked up Child Trafficking, made by Hardcash Productions, Inside the Mind of Suicide Bombers, produced by October Films, and Dying to be Apart, from ITN Factual.
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ITV books MIT in Autumn peaktime slot
ITV1 is looking to bolster its Saturday night schedule in the autumn with a second series of Murder Investigation Team. The cop drama from Thames, which was originally a spin-off from The Bill , has been recommissioned by ITV ...
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Extra Avid support
Woody Lidstone and Jody Neckles have joined Avid to boost support services for UK post customers. They will support editing products like Avid Xpress DV software and Media Composer Adrenaline, eventually covering Unity, DS Nitris and Digidesign Pro Tools. Lidstone has joined Avid from CBC in Canada where he was ...
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Hurll wins ovation at Indie Awards
Veteran programme-maker Michael Hurll was given a standing ovation at last week's Indie Awards, after he picked up the award for best live event.
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BBC to challenge wasteful youths
Young people who rely on their parents to bankroll their lavish lifestyles will be challenged to change their ways in a BBC factual entertainment show, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Neville-Jones out of BBC chair running
BBC governor Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, tipped as one of the leading contenders for the vacant BBC chairmanship, is understood not to have applied for the post. Broadcast understands none of the present 10 governors have put their names forward for the post, vacant since Gavyn Davies resigned in January over ...
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Ofcom opens FM licence bidding
Ofcom has unveiled the timetable for the first tranche of new FM radio licences across the UK.
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Bob creator to make series for five
Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman is to have another of his kids' creations turned into a TV show. Five and Nick Jr have commissioned Chapman to make an initial 52 x 10-minute episodes of pre-school series Fifi and ...
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Done and Dusted to film Britney concert
Indie Done and Dusted has been commissioned by US channel Showtime to produce live coverage of Britney Spears' Miami concert next week - its second major US order since setting up an office in the states in October. Channel 4 is expected to pick up the UK rights to the ...
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Reseller start-up xtfx bucks tough market
New reseller XTFX, set up by former Tyrell managing director Simon Brett, has begun trading with a number of sales already under its belt, writes Farah Jifri.