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Static has extended its relationship with FilmFour, whose channel branding it created last year, by crafting the sting that will precede each film screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Static has extended its relationship with FilmFour, whose channel branding it created last year, by crafting the sting that will precede each film screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which
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NEW PROMAX PRESIDENT BRAILSFORD FORESEES GROWTH
International promotion and marketing association Promax has named Glynn Brailsford (right) as its new president and CEO. Brailsford - formerly controller of creative services at Channel 5 in the UK -
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GAINSBOURG PLAY WILL STAR REAL-LIFE LOVER BIRKIN
Jane Birkin is to star in a BBC Radio 4 play about her life with lover Serge Gainsbourg, produced by independent Catherine Bailey Productions.Birkin and Gainsbourg gained notoriety when they recorded
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SECOND INITIATIVE FROM BIG LITTLE PICTURES JOINT DEAL
HTV and Welsh media agency Sgrin have launched the second Big Little Pictures joint production initiative. The scheme - to produce 2 x 24-minute short films for TV and cinema -
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Talk set for regional growth with bid for new licenses
Talk Radio has unveiled details of its£500,000 drive into regional radio with bids for three regional licences, beginning with a mixed speech and music format for south Wales, writes John
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DAVIES VEHICLE BEING DRIVEN BY LUCKY DOG
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment-owned Lucky Dog has gone into pre-production with A Many Splintered Thing, an 8 x 30-minute comedy drama series starring Alan Davies. Costing£2 million, the series will be
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BBC GOES TO WARR
BBC Production has appointed its first controller of talent management, responsible for managing relationships with on-screen and on-air talent. Rob Warr, currently channel editor for UK Arena, will take up the
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JAVELIN CHAMPION THROWS WRIT AT THE BBC
Former javelin champion Fatima Whitbread is suing the BBC over a joke on the BBC 1 quiz show They Think It's All Over. Whitbread is understood to be seeking more than
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'TV can learn from radio' - Bannister
BBC Production chief executive Matthew Bannister has called on the radio industry to 'stop having a chip on its shoulder' and play a central role in the development of digital multi-channel
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Band of Gold writer readies script
Band of Gold and Playing the Field writer Kay Mellor is scripting a new drama series for ITV called Fat Friends, writes Ashley Davies.The 8 x 60-minute series is about a
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Sony Radio Awards set for revamp
The Sony Radio Awards could be revamped in time for next year's ceremony with new categories and fewer awards.New categories being considered include an entertainment award, aimed at the links provided
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Europe will get religious Inspiration from this autumn
Inspiration Network, a new religious satellite TV channel broadcasting 24 hours a day, is due to launch on 29 September, writes Tina Mistry.The service will be unencrypted and available to all
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Virgo to make drama with Australian indie
Granada Media-owned Australian indie Artist Services has signed up former BBC Pebble Mill head of drama Tony Virgo to develop co-produced dramas for international distribution, writes Ashley Davies.Virgo joins the Melbourne-based
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BBC's Evans grabs Arts Council post
BBC Production head of arts and classical music Kim Evans has been poached by the Arts Council and will leave in September to take up the new post of executive director
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OFF THE RECORD - Weighting around
Former Century Radio head honcho John Myers (above) won't mind OTR saying he is a big fella. We reckon there must be at least 22 stone of him. So it was
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Grabiner ditches eVentures for Apax
Stephen Grabiner, former chief executive of On Digital, stunned the TV industry for the second time last week, spurning an offer to run News Corp subsidiary eVentures and instead joining venture
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - ITV's facelift sags
Although ITV has been trumpeting its ratings success following the demise of News at Ten, a closer look at the figures reveals that the great reversal of fortune has yet to materialise.
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INTERVIEW - Captain America
Since Peter Phippen took over as head of BBC Worldwide Americas, distribution of the US channel has shot from 400,000 to more than nine million, but he still has a long way to go to make the BBC a major US brand.
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Talk Radio chief invites BBC to share all live sports rights
Talk Radio chairman and chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie has called on the BBC to share all its live sports rights with Talk.MacKenzie, speaking at the Radio Festival on Thursday (15 July),
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POSTPONED SUPERGRASS DOC WILL AIR IN AUGUST
Supergrass, LWT's documentary about a police informant for BBC 1's Inside Story, will now be broadcast on 4 August. The informant featured had taken out an injunction on the programme, originally