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C4's new men
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Danny Cohen has ordered a two-part documentary series that aims to uncover the hidden world of female to male transsexuals, writes Leigh Holmwood. Make Me a Man, a 2 x 60-minute series from RDF Media, ...
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C5 courts controversy with police drama
Channel 5 has snapped up the rights to the controversial US drama The Shield, based on a fictitious violent and corrupt Los Angeles police department. C5 controller of acquisitions Jeff Ford negotiated a deal with Columbia Tristar International Television to buy the 13 x 60-minute ...
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Shine cooks up show for C4's comedy lab
Shine Entertainment has secured a 30-minute commission for Channel 4's Comedy Labseries. Comedians Steve Oram and Tom Meeten will star in Matthew and Tone - Tales of Friendship and Innocence, which will see the pair recount a series of poignant ...
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BBC World to give Middle East regular slot
BBC World, the BBC's 24-hour international news channel, is to launch a new programme dedicated to Middle Eastern affairs. The 30-minute Arab World Direct, which launches at the end of the month, is part of an existing strand that looks at different regions of the world. It will rotate with ...
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Nickelodeon draws up real cartoon plan
Nickelodeon UK is set to create a new 'reality cartoon', animating the lives and characters of a real British family, as part of the launch of Nicktoons TV. Animation company Milo Waterfield has been commissioned to make the cartoon, which will kick off once a suitable family has been found. ...
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Landmark pet show is its first BBC 1 order
Oxford-based indie Landmark Films has bagged its first BBC 1 commission as part of a brace of BBC orders. Ordered by commissioning executive Richard Klein, the BBC 1 programme commission is a 60-minute piece on household pets for delivery in the autumn. Aiming to explore the 'peculiar lunacy of people ...
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Living lines up shows for toddlers' strand
Living TV has acquired a number of children's series for its morning pre-school strand Tiny Living. The Flextech channel has picked up cable and satellite rights to Hi-5 from Southern Star until 2007 and has bought 65 x 5-minute episodes ...
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Thomson arm takes on Grass Valley tag
Acquisitive French group Thomson Multimedia has revealed its Broadcast Solutions division will now be known as Thomson Grass Valley following the merger earlier this year with the Grass Valley Group (GVG), writes Barbara Marshall
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Former West 1 team set up shop
The bulk of the West 1 editing team has quit to set up a new facility called Suite, writes Barbara Marshall
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NTL Broadcast hires Bennie as UK md
NTL Broadcast has appointed Tom Bennie as its first permanent UK managing director since the role was created in a restructure last year, writes Barbara Marshall
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5D appoints MPC tech man
British visual effects developer 5D has appointed the Moving Picture Company (MPC)'s John Bennett to the new role of film products manager, writes Barbara Marshall
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Digital rivals pair up
The organisers of Digital Media World (DMW) and recently launched rival Digital Arts Festival have called a truce by forming a joint-venture to run a single event. The combined event, known as Digital Arts World, will be held at Olympia in October and will feature elements from both festivals. Organisers ...
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Brick's bid for young viewers
September Films has added a trio of young producers to its senior management in a bid to secure more commissions targeting 16 to 34 year-olds, writes Steve Aston
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TSI appointments
TSI has created two new roles as well as hiring Screen Subtitling sales manager Paul Newton as chief engineer. Videosonics' Dave McGrath has joined TSI Post's team of three dubbing mixers and Tyrell Avid specialist Adam Davies has boosted the engineering team
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Midnight buys Telefilm
Soho facility Midnight Transfer has bought telecine facility Telefilm from founder Peter Watson. Based at Twickenham film studios, the firm will be renamed Midnight Transfer Twickenham. Senior colourist John Kerr will remain but will be assisted by staff from the Soho base. Credits include Johnny English for Working Title Films
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Ofcom fines are 'threat to rights'
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has been warned that the government will violate broadcasters' human rights if it presses ahead with plans to levy huge fines for breaches of licences, writes David Rose
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BBC dominates at wildscreen
British programme makers have scooped over half the nominations at this year's international Wildscreen Panda awards, with the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU) taking the lion's share, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Trisha editor promoted to exec position
Jackie Heffer, who as editor of ITV 1's Trisha has seen the Granada-produced daytime show become the highest performing chatshow on TV, has been promoted to executive producer, writes Steve Aston
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Interactive vodka ad
Technology developed by Kingston Interactive (KIT) and ad agency Publicis will be trialled on an interactive ad for homeless charity the Depaul Trust next month. Dubbed 'video on demand kind of advertising' (Vodka), the pilot allows the viewer to change the narrative at certain points of the ad without leaving ...
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BBC's Churchill drama gets 10 Emmy nominations
The BBC has put in a robust performance in the nominations for the 54th annual US Emmy awards, writes Jon Rogers