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Going for gold
Winners at Promax last week included broadcast creative agencies Devilfish and Angelfish, who picked up eight gold awards for work for Flextech, Reality TV and Five, and Bruce Dunlop Associates who notched up a total of 12 awards across the BDA Group.
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C4 ends Countdown era
Channel 4 will tomorrow (Friday) screen the last Richard Whiteley-fronted episode of Countdownas part of an afternoon dedicated to the channel's longest serving face.
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BBC 'indie champion'
CBBC head of entertainment Anne Gilchrist is to become the BBC's first children's TV 'indie champion'. She will become executive editor, independents and events, commissioning children's programmes solely from the indie sector. She has been responsible for commissioning some of CBBC's most high-profile shows, from Blue ...
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Dead famous sold
Dead Famous, Living TV's paranormal series made by Twofour Productions, has been sold to A&E's Biography Channel US. Following a deal brokered by distributor Minotaur, A&E has taken the full first series, which sees presenters Gail Porter and Chris Fleming on the trail of deceased Hollywood legends including Marilyn Monroe, ...
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BBC on course
BBC journalists will have to pass new training courses in order to be promoted within the corporation. As part of its response to the Neil report on its journalistic standards, the BBC has dropped the Neil committee's recommendation for a bricks-and-mortar college, opting instead for a 'virtual college' of training ...
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Online archive fear
A BBC project to make its archive available online has been criticised by an MP, who fears it could spark a new trade in illegal downloads. Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, said he plans to investigate the cor-poration's plans for its Creative Archive - a publicly ...
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Firefly appointment
Indie Firefly has promoted company production manager Francesca Newby to the newly created post of head of production. Newby will manage the company's workload and will report to managing directors Magnus Temple and Nick Curwin. Firefly is currently making three programmes for Channel 4's forthcoming Psychoseries ...
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O2 deal will take ITV live onto mobiles
ITV is poised to sign a deal with O2 that would see it become the first terrestrial channel to be broadcast live on mobile phones.
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British hopes boost tennis ratings
Coverage of the first week of the Wimbledon tennis tournament has served up an extra 300,000 viewers for BBC1.
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Leith to exit Granada Wild
Granada Wild head Brian Leith has confirmed that he is leaving the company in October, but will remain linked to the company as executive producer on a new Nigel Marven-fronted ITV show.
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BBC2 orders major series on Middle East
The BBC is hoping to address concerns over its coverage of the Middle East with a landmark documentary on the peace process.
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BBC America co-pros
BBC America has agreed to co-produce two BBC TV movies from Talkback, written by Stephen Poliakoff. Friends and Crocodilescharts the shifts in power between a boss and his secretary and Gideon's Daughterstars Bill Nighy as a PR guru forced to re-evaluate his ...
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Linda O'Grady
Linda O'Grady, vice-president of research at Discovery Networks Europe passed away aged 38 on 9 June after a short acute illness. O'Grady joined the company in 1988 and headed the DNE research team for the past seven years. Before Discovery, Linda worked at BBC Broadcast where she was a broadcast ...
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Fifth Gear relaunches as one-hour show
Five motoring show Fifth Gearis to be extended to an hour-long format in a bid to ape the successful relaunch of BBC2's Top Gear. For its eighth outing in the autumn, The North One show will be filmed at a studio in Birmingham. ...
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BBC critic to head commons watchdog
Tory MP John Whittingdale, one of the BBC's more formidable critics, is to head the Commons watchdog that will scrutinise its activities.The former shadow media secretary is to replace Sir Gerald Kaufman as chairman of the cross-party Commons media select committee. Labour MP Kaufman, himself an outspoken critic of the ...
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Series to show celibate teenagers
Teens who volunteer to abstain from sex are to be filmed for a new BBC2 documentary. No Sex Please, We're Teenagers, commissioned from indie IWC Media, will follow a group of 12 Harrow teenagers aged 15 to 17 as they take a vow of chastity for ...
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Humphrys refuses to go easy on MPs
Todaypresenter John Humphrys has told politicians he has no intention of going easy on them and would resign if bosses told him to do so. He defended his interview technique when he and other broadcast journalists were cross-examined by a committee of peers. Labour's Lord Maxton accused him of usurping ...
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BBC governors to hold official AGM
The BBC's governors are to hold their first official annual general meeting in front of a 200-strong audience at TV Centre. The governors have held yearly conferences in the past, but the meeting on 19 July will be their first official AGM. It will give the audience the chance to ...
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NewsAnother black Wednesday for BBC1
In the battle between Channel 4 and BBC1 over heavyweight documentaries, C4's Cutting Edgeprogramme came out on top with a hefty average of 4.5 million (22.2%), as BBC1 slumped to its worst peaktime performance since December last year.
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NewsTelewest rolls out TV on demand
Telewest has confirmed the launch of its TV-on-demand service, which will be called Teleport.