All articles by Robert Shepherd – Page 67
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NewsFilm 4 and MySpace partner on movie
MySpace has joined forces with Film 4 and Vertigo Films to fund a£1 million British movie, with the filmmaker to be chosen in a competition on the social networking website.
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NewsNew work experience guidelines unveiled
New guidelines were published yesterday to promote fair treatment of work experience people in the TV industry. Recommendations include hours being limited to 40 a week. Non-subscribers go here.
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NewsSky rebrands Artsworld
BSkyB is to re-brand its arts channels Artsworld and Artsworld HD as Sky Arts and Sky Arts HD respectively from 1 March.
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NewsBT Vision poaches MTV managing director
BT Vision, the television arm of BT, has poached MTV's managing director of UK and Ireland, Michael Barry, to become its director of programming.
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NewsBuena Vista adds Barwick to distribution arm
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has added to its London-based international distribution arm, with the promotion of Simon Barwick as senior sales manager for UK and Ireland.
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NewsViacom tells YouTube to remove illegal content
Viacom has demanded that Google's online video service YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips after failing to reach a distribution agreement.
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NewsC4 hands out factual regional awards
Channel 4 will recognise regionally produced factual programming in its annual Creative Cities Awards next week with Belfast indie Double Band receiving a gong for its documentary Who Killed Brian Jones?, about the suspicious death of the ex-Rolling Stone.
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NewsSky lines up Miami Vice star for Super Bowl coverage
Sky Sports has signed up Miami Vicestar Don Johnson to help with its live coverage of the Super Bowl XLI on Sunday - the channel's first US event to be screened in high-definition.
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NewsRome makers take on Warriors
The team behind BBC1 series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empireis creating an epic drama-doc series looking at six famous warriors from history.
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NewsSky One will discover the real Shilpa
Sky One has landed a major scoop with a one-off special on the inside story of Celebrity Big Brotherwinner Shilpa Shetty.
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NewsCelador founder takes up director role at Waddell Media
Celador Films founder Paul Smith has returned to his native Northern Ireland to join indie Waddell Media as a non-executive director.
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NewsBrown to head interactive at Flextech
Flextech has promoted interactive producer for Bravo Kevin Brown to the role of creative head of interactive, replacing Ed Humphrey who left to join Buena Vista.
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NewsBBC iPlayer given green light by Trust
The BBC Trust this week gave the green light to the corporation's new on-demand services, including the controversial iPlayer, but made major changes to a number of key features the BBC Executive proposed.
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NewsSky scores Shilpa Shetty interview
Celebrity Big Brotherwinner Shilpa Shetty will give her first in-depth interview since leaving the house exclusively to Sky News presenter Kay Burley.
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NewsFormer BBC exec repays£300,000 following arrest
A former BBC Wales executive arrested under suspicion of theft in 2005 has repaid over£300,000 to the corporation.
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NewsShetty wins Celebrity Big Brother after racism row
Channel 4 bosses breathed a sigh of relief last night after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brotherand denied that she had been a victim of racism.
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NewsSix Nations in HD for the first time
The BBC will broadcast all England, Wales and Scotland home games in high definition (HD) for the first time when the RBS Six Nations 2007 championship kicks off next month.
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NewsFreeview poised to benefit from 'grey boom'
Take-up of Freeview in the UK is set to boom amongst over 55s in the next two years with older-skewing channels such as BBC4 and ITV3 benefiting the most.
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NewsGambino exits MTV
MTV Networks UK & Ireland's vice president for commercial strategy & digital media Angel Gambino has left the company - the latest of a string of recent departures at the Viacom-owned broadcaster.
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NewsTwenty Twenty expands into kids
Indie Twenty Twenty is making a push into the children's genre with The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a major new commission for BBC1 kids slot CBBC.