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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
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Paranormal special broadens uk horizons
UK Horizons channel editor Dominic Vallely has commissioned two new programmes for a special themed weekend called Haunted.Secrets of the Paranormal, produced by BBC Worldwide's interactive arm, will be a 60-minute
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BSkyB takes sci-fi mutants primetime
Sky One has bought 22 x 60-minute sci-fi series Mutant X for its primetime line-up from US producer Tribune Entertainment.Sky One deputy head of broadcast and production Kate Marsh and
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Channel X strikes deals for fans and pans
E4 commissioning editor Damon Beesley has ordered a new quiz show from indie Channel X in which two teams of fans are pitted against each other.The 20 x 30-minute Fanorama will
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Peter Williams Television to make series on human cloning
Maidstone-based indie Peter Williams Television has secured a raft of new commissions, including a series for Channel 4 on human cloning, writes Leigh HolmwoodThe 3 x 60-minute as-yet-untitled series, ordered by