Katherine Rushton
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Nick Wilson, Five
He’s produced some of the seminal kids’ TV shows of the past three decades, and the long-serving director of children’s at Five is not afraid to speak his mind.
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BBC3 tackles science with the inside story of drugs
BBC3 is to make its first foray into science with a CGI series about the effects of drugs on the human body.
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Worzel Gummidge put out to pasture as RDF option lapses
Worzel Gummidge and RentaGhost are unlikely to get a new lease of life any time soon, after indie RDF Media decided not to renew its option to adapt the kids’ classics.
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BBC World Service braces itself for budget cuts
The BBC is preparing to drop some of its international radio services in line with an expected cut to the World Service budget.
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Roux to train service staff for BBC2 series
Michel Roux is hoping to do for front-of-house restaurant staff what Jamie Oliver did for chefs in a major series for BBC2.
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New BBC social networking rules warn against political bias
The BBC has clamped down on its employees’ social networking activity, asking programming staff not to reveal anything on the likes of Facebook or Twitter that may betray their political allegiances.
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Shine hires Discovery exec to lead business development unit
Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group has hired Discovery’s Alden Mitchell and Channel 4’s Lucinda Hicks to help form a group-wide global business development unit.
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C4 kicks off search for next 11 O’Clock Show
Channel 4 is planning a stripped successor to The 11 O’Clock Show to launch new talent, and has put a six-month production contract out to tender.
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Zodiak deal transforms RDF
New Zodiak Entertainment chief executive David Frank is eyeing rapid growth in the Far East and South America in a bid to turn the group into a global production empire on the scale of Endemol or FremantleMedia
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BBC calls time on Last of the Summer Wine
BBC comedy Last Of The Summer Wine will not return after this summer’s series - retiring from the schedules after nearly 40 years.
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Zodiak closes RDF deal
RDF Media Group and Zodiak Entertainment have finalised their deal to create a £500m global production giant.
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Little Britain duo return with airport sitcom
Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to return to BBC1 for a new comedy series set in a busy airport.
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EastEnders to go HD by 2011
EastEnders, The One Show and The Apprentice will all be produced in HD by the end of the year, in line with plans to launch a high definition version of BBC1 this autumn.
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RDF Rights takes on Shine’s Mills for US position
RDF Rights has recruited Shine International’s JC Mills to join its LA office - while former RDF USA chief executive Chris Coelen has hired ex-colleague Karrie Wolfe for his start-up, Kinetic Content.
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BBC battles back in WoCC
BBC in-house improved its Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) performance slightly in 2009/10, led by a resurgent children’s division, but lost ground to indies in entertainment and drama.
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BBC first for Plum as Reef returns to fold
The BBC has commissioned its first daytime series from James May’s Toy Stories producer Plum Pictures, and handed Reef TV its first order since it was suspended over a string of fakery incidents.
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Evan Davis series explores Britain’s economy for BBC2
Today presenter Evan Davis is to examine the realities of the British economic landscape in a heavyweight series for BBC2.
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Power inks co-production deal with TMG for nine mini-series
Power has signed a €15m (£13m) co-production deal with German producer Tele München Gruppe for nine major mini-series over the next three years - including a follow up to ITV1’s Flood, called Fire.
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Being Human moves to Boston for US remake
Vampires and werewolves will swap Bristol for Boston in the $25m (£17.5m) US version of Being Human, which will also reveal more about the main characters’ family relationships.
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Zodiak buyout of RDF on brink of completion
RDF Media’s transformative deal with Zodiak Entertainment is “on track” and set to close next week, sources close to the companies have claimed.