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MTV signs OB Crew
Scottish TV and Grampian TV Resources have won the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The team will deploy extensive digital OB equipment, including WiCam digital wireless cameras supplied by McMillan, to help put together content in the run-up to the event, as well ...
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Waking The Dead gets two more series
BBC1 crime drama Waking the Deadhas been commissioned for a further two series by controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter. The fourth and fifth series, which will comprise six two-parters, will again feature a crack team of police forensic experts looking into 'cold cases'. Filming ...
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Discovery wants Thunder races for US
Leopard Films has been commissioned by Discovery Channel US to produce a 60-minute special based on its Thunder Racesformat. The show, which sees teams turning broken-down cars into racing machines, will be shot this autumn in the Las Vegas desert. Executive producer for Discovery is ...
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ITV lines up trio of new dramas
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a trio of dramas, including a topical two-part action thriller featuring a corrupt Special Operations investigator battling to save the UK from a major security threat, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Emap seeks metal MD
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, is hunting for a managing director to spearhead its Kerrang! radio brand as it prepares to launch the station in the West Midlands. The position has been created to grow the Kerrang! radio business which will bring together its existing digital ...
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Liverpool writers fund
Mersey Film has secured£25,000 worth of funding from North West Vision to find and develop writers in the north-west. The money will be used to develop script-writing talent to help regenerate local film production. Mersey Television, led by Brooksidecreator Phil Redmond, will pick up development ...
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Visual Voodoo gets nod for Panto special
CHANNEL 4 is to uncover the 'secret world' of celebrities in pantomime as part of a brace of commissions for ITN production arm Visual Voodoo, which are due to air at Christmas, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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MacKenzie: 'I hate Rajar'
Kelvin MacKenzie has repeated his call to scrap the techniques used by the Rajar audience survey after his TalkSport station ranked bottom among national commercial broadcasters.
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Stewart media role
William G Stewart, presenter of Channel 4 quiz show Fifteen-to-One, has been appointed as the president of The Media Society. Stewart, who takes over from former Panoramareporter Richard Lindley, said his immediate aims included increasing the broadcasting membership of the ...
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Tiny planets to be seen in Scandinavia
Animation house Pepper's Ghost Productions is poised to sign deals with stations in Scandinavia to air its CGI pre-school series Tiny Planets, which screened on CITV in the UK, following sales to Fox Kids in Scandinavia, NRK in Norway and Disney and Canal+ in France. ...
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NewsLighting to tell C4: no more poaching
Five's chief executive, Jane Lighting, is to hold talks with her Channel 4 counterpart, Mark Thompson, this week over claims that Kevin Lygo has broken the 'no poaching' agreement he signed with Five.
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NewsIs this the cruellest reality TV show yet?
Sky One is set to spark controversy with a reality show that will see a group of men woo and kiss a gorgeous woman, only to be told at the end of the show that the object of their desire is actually a transsexual.
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NewsC4 unveils winter shows
Bob Geldof's indie Ten Alps Broadcasting is to make a nightly topical debate show for Channel 4 as one of the highlights of the channel's winter schedule.
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NewsBBC3 turns to orient for new comedy show
BBC3 is to launch the UK's first comedy show entirely written by and starring British oriental talent with a new show to be made by Steve Coogan's indie, Baby Cow.
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Pilkington quits Sky for Monkey
Sky One's senior commissioning executive for factual entertainment, Jo Pilkington, is leaving to join independent production company Monkey.
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UKTV channel launch targets youth
UKTV is to drop its time-shift channel UK Gold 2, which shows UK Gold programmes 12 hours later, and replace it with a new channel with a target audience of younger, more contemporary viewers.
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ITV1 drama reveals Hitler invasion plan
Nazi troops are to be shown marching up The Mall while Adolf Hitler will be seen waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in a major new ITV drama that reconstructs Hitler's plans for the invasion of Britain.
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ITV takes ad spots on terrestrial rival
ITV has begun promoting its programmes on a rival terrestrial channel for the first time in a bid to pull in new audiences.
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At It to make C4 pop event
Channel 4 has commissioned indie At It Productions to create a new live music event following confirmation that the annual broadcast events from Top of the Pops and Smash Hits have been dropped this year.