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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.
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ITV supports regional fund
ITV has again given its backing to a regional production fund that offers£2m to companies outside the M25 to make shows for the ITV network.
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Abyss ventures into the Pacific
BBC Bristol will trawl the depths of the Pacific Ocean for a second series of underwater broadcasts under the banner Abyss - Live. One part of the day-long broadcast involves presenter Mike deGruy exploring surface waters using a 'movie helmet' that enables him to talk to viewers as he descends ...
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Monkeys front BBC ad campaign
The BBC launches a new advertising campaign this week to promote its six digital channels. The characters this time are a group of monkeys who turn into various celebrities including Alan Titchmarsh and Jack Dee. Artem Digital is again supplying the prosthetics for the BBC Broadcast production, with the monkeys ...
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NewsProfits fall at VTR
UK post-production giant VTR plc has suffered a significant drop in its year on year operating profits.
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NewsMy Family rapped for blind joke
The BBC has been rapped for poking fun at blind people in its primetime comedy My Family.
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NewsNews shows look to merge
Newsworld, the annual conference for the news industry, is holding talks with its rival News Xchange as the world's news organisations finally decide they can't afford to support two conferences dedicated to their business.