All People articles – Page 286
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NewsKudos reshuffles production team
Kudos joint chief executives Diederick Santer and Daniel Isaacs have reshuffled the company’s production team.
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NewsBig names lined up for Broadcast Commissioning Forum
Recently appointed BBC genre chiefs Patrick Holland and Polly Hill are among the big names speaking at Broadcast’s Commissioning Forum in November.
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NewsBBC Children’s reshapes senior team
BBC Children’s has shaken up its senior management team, appointing Sarah Muller as its first in-house creative director of scripted, animation and co-productions.
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NewsKill Your Friends producer launches indie with major backers
Gregor Cameron, a former producer on The Word, has launched a TV and film production company and is developing a spin-off of dark music business comedy Kill Your Friends for the small screen.
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NewsRobert Lindsay moots Citizen Smith reboot
Robert Lindsay has revealed that 1970s sitcom Citizen Smith could to return to television – although it is yet to be formally pitched to a broadcaster.
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NewsDawn Airey leaves Yahoo!
Dawn Airey has stepped down as Yahoo!’s European boss after just over two years.
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NewsPact hires head of diversity
Pact has hired Anjani Patel as diversity lead for television to replace the BBC-bound Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams.
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NewsHospital Club awards shortlist unveiled
Love Productions’ Anna Beattie, director Peter Kosminsky and BBC iPlayer chief Victoria Jaye are among the TV executives shortlisted for the 2015 H.Club 100 awards.
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NewsAndrew Baker joins Drive board
Former ITV head of business affairs Andrew Baker has joined co-production firm Drive as a non-executive director.
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NewsDavid Liddiment joins FremantleMedia
All3Media co-founder David Liddiment has joined FremantleMedia UK as non-executive chairman.
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NewsSundog snaps up The Island With Bear Grylls editor
Sundog Pictures has beefed up its production team with the appointment of The Island With Bear Grylls series editor Dov Freedman.
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NewsClive Edwards to leave factual commissioning
BBC head of TV current affairs commissioning Clive Edwards is leaving the role after 22 years at the corporation to take up a 12-month position with BBC Academy.
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NewsCreative England / eOne JV hires drama chief
Former Holby City producer Polly Williams is to lead drama development for distributor Entertainment One (eOne) and Creative England’s new joint venture.
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NewsPippa Harris made a Dame
Neal Street Productions co-founder Pippa Harris has been made a Dame for her services to television.
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NewsSturgeon calls for 'radical' BBC reform in Scotland
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon is to issue a warning that the BBC is losing sight of the pace of devolution and urged it to hand more powers to the nations.
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NewsIannucci: government allowed BBC uncertainty to 'fester'
Armando Iannucci has said uncertainty about the BBC’s future has been allowed to “fester and grow” by the government, despite John Whittingdale’s claim that there is no agenda against the corporation.
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NewsABC: no plans to invest in UK indies
Disney-owned broadcaster ABC is “aggressively” hunting UK talent and writers but is not looking to acquire British production companies.
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NewsWhittingdale denies government has an anti-BBC agenda
Culture secretary John Whittingdale has denied that the government green paper on the future of the BBC formed part of a pre-meditated Conservative assault on the corporation.
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NewsBoomerang hires development chief
Welsh indie Boomerang is bulking up its development team with a senior hire from Outline Productions - as it picks up the contract to produce around 30 hours of para-sport coverage for Channel 4.
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NewsDanny Cohen: no public desire for market failure BBC
BBC director of television Danny Cohen has claimed that there is no public desire for the corporation to become a “market failure” broadcaster.