All News articles – Page 5112
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Root creates exclusive club for producers
BBC2 controller invites producers whose programmes get three million viewers to the 'Three Million Club'
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Hit and Discovery sign co-production deal
Wildlife arm of Hit Entertainment agrees three-year partnership with Discovery Networks International to make natural history shows for broadcast on either Animal Planet or Discovery Channel
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Czechs to get Tubbies
BBC Worldwide has licensed 250 episodes of Teletubbies to leading Czech commercial channel Nova, to air from March.Meanwhile 156 episodes of the pre-school show have been licensed to TVP1 in
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Day moves to At It
At It Productions has poached the former Brighter Pictures head of productions Paul Day as its new head of production.Day will oversee a team of 10 working on ongoing productions,
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ECM wins Streetmate
UK indie ECM has struck a deal to distribute Tiger Aspect Channel 4 dating show Streetmate to the US and eastern Europe.ECM has also landed the central and eastern Europe
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Initial's music venture
Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Initial has signed a deal with the Association of Independent Music (Aim) to develop music programming together.Aim will contribute talent to the programmes as it
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MIPCOM personality of the year
MTV Networks chairman Tom Freston was named personality of year at MIPCOM this week in recognition of 'outstanding leadership and creative contributions'.
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Newsworld schedule overhauled
Event for international news broadcasters re-writes sessions to focus on coverage of recent events in Afghanistan and New York
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Top of the revamps
The first results of the BBC's review of Top of the Pops will hit television screens next Friday when the show is revamped to coincide with its move back to Television
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Hewitt refers Ladbrokes/BSkyB joint venture
Secretary of state for trade and industry says interactive TV betting proposal raises 'competition concerns'
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STLD campaigns for broadcaster accountability on epilepsy
The society of television lighting directors (STLD) is calling on broadcasters to take more responsibility for managing the risks of photosensitive epilepsy (PSE), writes Barbara MarshallFollowing a meeting with Independent Television
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Sony wins APTN contract to replace analogue kit
Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe (BPE) has won a contract with Associated Press Television News (APTN) to replace its analogue production equipment writes Barbara MarshallThe deal, which APTN director of technology
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Apple's Final Cut Pro sets Shining example
Shining Productions used Apple's desktop editing system Final Cut Pro to edit a documentary for Channel 4 music strand 4 Music, writes Barbara MarshallProduced by Monkey Maker, the documentary is about
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Arri suspends flotation but promotes new head
Camera and lighting specialist Arri has promoted general manager Renos Louka to group managing director of its UK companies but has put its plans for a stock market flotation on hold,
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Bolton Wanderers installs in-house production facility
Bolton Wanderers is setting a precedent for other football clubs by installing an in-house production facility to provide live coverage of home games, writes Barbara MarshallRather than hiring in independent outside
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Fflic talks its way into S4C slot
Welsh production company Fflic has received two commissions from S4C.Commissioner for factual programmes Cenwyn Edwards has ordered Welsh in a Week, a 15 x 30-minute series following 15 different people in
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Channel 5 set to air BFM crime series
Channel 5 senior programme controller Chris Shaw has commissioned indie BFM Productions to make a series exploring 100 years of forensic photography.The 3 x 60-minute series, called Shooting the Crime, will
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Offspring go-ahead for Alliance Atlantis
The BBC has bought 52-minute factual show Offspring from Alliance Atlantis Television Distribution.The series, produced by Barna Alper Productions, is set in a new world of reproductive technology, looking at
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Wall to Wall bags commissions
Wall to Wall, the independent linked to a potential equity deal with Channel 4, has secured a number of new commissions including a C4 series fronted by comedian Lee Hurst, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Wark Clements to make BBC Scotland factuals
Glasgow-based indie Wark Clements has secured two factual commissions from BBC Scotland commissioning editor for television Ewan Angus, writes Penny HughesThe first order is Great Scots, a 3 x 60-minute series