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Farm appointment
Jannine Martin has been promoted to director of post-production at post facility group The Farm. Martin joined from Video London in 2000 and was the founding general manager of HD facility Home.
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Arena P3 posts BBC's Parents
Arena P3 has completed post-production on BBC series Blame the Parents.
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Frontier ties up film about Biggs
Frontier Posthas post-produced Ronnie Biggs: Last Escape?for Sky One. The 60-minute North One Television documentary charts the life of Ronnie Biggs, one of the criminals prosecuted for the Great Train Robbery of 1963. The story follows Biggs from his 1965 Wandsworth Prison ...
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The Farm covers C4's X Rated
The Farm Group has completed the titles and post-production for X Rated: The Sex Films They Tried to Banfor Channel 4.
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Fremantle snaps up Planet Cook
Pop Idoldistributor Fremantle Media is moving into children's formats and has picked up BBC series Planet Cookas its first property.
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Initial wins Andersen anniversary deal
Endemol-owned indie Initial has secured a multimillion-pound deal to produce a live event commemorating the 200th anniversary of Danish fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's birth.
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Australasian deals for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has secured a number of deals throughout Australasia including shifting nearly 30 hours of BBC factual programming, such as docu-dramas Krakatoaand Hiroshima, to Australia's Nine Network. New Zealand's TVNZ has picked up over 110 hours of factual, drama and children's ...
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ID strikes shine distribution agreement
ID Distribution has made its first distribution deal with Liz Murdoch's indie, Shine. Shine's The Hunt, a 3 x 60-minute series for Sky One, will now be represented internationally by the distribution company, which was launched last year by former September Films US president Sally Miles. ...
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Discovery takes martial arts series
Zeal Television has sold BBC3 series Mind Bodyand Kick Ass Movesto Discovery Channel, taking the series into 100 territories. The 10 x 30-minute series, produced by indie August Productions, traces various martial arts styles. Discovery will air the show in spring.
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ZDF to handle S4C catalogue in Germany
S4C International has signed a five-year deal with Germany's ZDF Enterprises to represent its documentary catalogue in the region. The deal, which will cover distribution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, will also include all S4C documentaries that are produced over the five-year period.
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RFDR scores with BBC4's FC Barcelona
RDF Rights has acquired international rights to BBC4 football documentary FC Barcelona Confidential. The 90-minute special, made by Spanish production companies JWP and Alea TV, documents the inner workings of super-club FC Barcelona. It was shown on BBC4 last month as part of the channel's ...
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Format focus: My Super Sweet 16
MTV follows a bunch of spoilt teenagers as they spend hundreds of thousands of their parents' hard-earned cash for their 16th birthday parties.
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Caledonia wins gay hubby order
ITV1 is to explore the effect on a marriage when the husband comes out of the closet in a documentary from Scottish indie Caledonia TV.
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Channel X bags two C4 orders
Channel X, the indie company behind the controversial Popetown, has landed two orders for Channel 4, including an animated/live action sketck Modern Toss.
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Zeppotron makes panel show
Channel 4 has ordered a late-night topical panel show from Endemol-owned indie Zeppotron, the company behind Chris Morris's latest comedy series Nathan Barley.
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At It does comedy marathon for UKTV
UKTV Gold has commissioned At It Productions to make five hours of programming to tie into a month-long comedy event. The Golden Rules of Comedywill be hosted by comedian Jo Brand and feature interviews with comedians and celebrities. UKTV commissioning executive Diana Howie ordered the show, ...
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Thames takes on young offenders for C4
Thames Television is to make a Channel 4 observational documentary about young offenders in prison. Children in Troublewill feature interviews with children to find out why they offend and the impact it has on others. It was ordered by C4 commissioning editor of documentaries Hilary Bell ...
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Iambic looks at life of the fifth Beatle
The turbulent life of the 'fifth Beatle' is being probed for a BBC documentary from Bristol-based indie Iambic.
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Sky One delves into Ukrainian poisoning
Sky One has commissioned Talkback Thames to make a documentary on last year's poisoning of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yuschenko. Poisoned, a 60-minute show to air next month, will examine Yuschenko's deterioration and attempt to put it into context by looking at how poison has been ...
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Commissioner's Q&A: Daniela Neumann
The controller of commissioned programmes for ITV2 and ITV3 and editor, factual programmes ITV1 is always on the lookout for spin-off ideas for major ITV1 dramas